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Our yearly Free-Tuition Programme: was launched out of necessity to empower the underprivileged female youths and women within our locality for free, to stimulate their performance, and improve their productivity and creativity. Through this apprenticeship training programme, capacity is hereby built for graduates, undergraduates, housewives, school dropouts, secondary school students and school leavers, thus, translating to self-employment in the context of small scale enterprise in the economy.
Within the context of this strategy, our objectives include the followings:
  1. To empower the unemployed, the underemployed, and the less fortunate women and youths by our skills acquisition programmes in Ikorodu.
  2. To empower about 50 female youths & women within our target groups in one year and 250 within five years
  3. To introduce beneficiaries to skills that are less capital intensive and in high demand
  4. To contribute towards the reduction of unemployment rate within our immediate environment and Nigeria as a whole
  5. To be identified with the Federal, State, and Local Government Councils on similar issues.
  6. To identify with a number of international organizations having similar objectives by 2017
  7. To train beneficiaries to become instructors and employers of labor
  8. To make entrepreneur out of the unemployed
  9. To offer general counsel
         
WHY CONCENTRATING ON OUR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT (IKORODU NORTH)?
 No programme of this kind exists in this local government area where we have high concentration of our target groups
            i  . Available records indicate over 60% unemployment rate within the above locality.Empowering and effectively engaging the female youths through this programme will not only make them become economic self-reliant but will also shift their focus away from social vices, crimes and other nefarious acts
                     ii.        It is densely populated with about 80% being low income earners and having little or no formal or informal education.
                    iii.        High concentration of our target groups/beneficiaries
                   iv.        Existence of a tertiary institution in the above local government development area which is largely responsible for the high percentage of some of our target groups

TARGET GROUPS:
  1. People with little or no formal or informal education
  2. Youths/teenage or single mothers
  3. School dropouts
  4. Housewives & divorcees
  5. Underemployed
  6. Unemployed
  7. underprivileged
  8. University graduates
  9. University undergraduates
  10. Polytechnic graduates
  11. Polytechnic undergraduates
  12. Secondary School leavers
  13. Secondary School students

Available skills                          Duration             TUITION
  1. Fashion design                      6 months                 N5,000 
  2. Fabric jewellery                   1 month                    N4,000     
  3. Bead making                        1 month                   N5,000 
  4.    Bag/purse making                 1 month                   N4,000 
  5.    Photography                        3 months                  N5,000
  6.    Catering                              6 months                  N5,000
  7.    Event management/Planning 6 months                  N5,000
  8.    Event decoration                 3 months                  N5,000
  9.    Computer/IT                       3 months                  N5,000
  10.    Web design                         3 months                  N5,000
  11.    Mobile phone repairs           3months                   N5,000
  12.    Laptop repairs                    3 months                  N5,000

There is yearly workshop for liquid soap making, air freshener, and antiseptic.

WHY DO WE ASK FOR THE STIPEND (TUITION) ?: As it is presently, the programme cannot be entirely free as we honestly do not have the kind of financial strength to do just that. So, asking our applicants to pay the above tuition provides another means of generating income for the organization. However, we are trusting God for more support so that having an entirely zero-tuition programme can be realized in no distant future.                       

Industrial Training Fund (ITF): The Empowering Destiny for Eternity Network Initiative (Eden-I), having being authorized by this federal government agency, have graduated and awarded certificates to 58 out of the 122 students who have, either acquired skill(s) or are currently undergoing training. Meanwhile,  certificate is jointly signed by ITF and EDEN-I

PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY:
We, at Empowering Destiny for Eternity Network Initiative (EDEN-I), hope to sustain and expand our activities from donations, grants, and tuition through the following means;
              i.        Federal, State and local governments
             ii.        Individuals
            iii.        Private business owners/entrepreneurs
           iv.        Proceeds from periodic exhibitions/sales of materials
            v.        International organizations
           vi.        Multi-nationals
          vii.        Financial institutions
         viii.        Registration of trainees
           ix.        Religious organizations

WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
1. Inadequate space for training: For some time now, we have been grappling with the problem of inadequate space for training. This is as a result of the high patronage or demand for our service and we sincerely solicit your support to enable us build, or acquire, or rent a bigger facility that will enhance our activities at the training center. It will be a big relief if only we can do without paying rent.
2. Sewing and Industrial machines: Your support in these area of our needs would no doubt help to expand our machinery and extend the privilege to more women and girls therefore empowering them to acquire, at least, a skill for economic self-reliance and self-sustenance
3. 2016 free tuition programme: We need a N100,000 to enable us achieve this purpose this year. Even though the beneficiaries are not required to pay tuition, however, Instructor(s) is usually remunerated for the number of students trained. 
4. This particular programme is designed to avail 20 unemployed the privilege to be empowered without having to pay tuition.
                 

COMMENCEMENT: JUNE 6, 2013

NUMBER OF FREE-TUITION TRAINEES:64

NUMBER OF TRAINEES ALREADY GRADUATED:61

NUMBER OF STUDENTS TRAINED IN MORE THAN ONE SKILL:11

NUMBER OF STUDENTS CURRENTLY IN TRAINING:17
NUMBER OF REGISTERED STUDENTS SO FAR: 156





GRADUATION CEREMONY/ACTIVITIES:
Date: 12th of December, 2015



Visit to the community health centre: On the eve of the graduation ceremony the instructor and some of the students visited the only community health centre and gave a few clothes and purses to the babies and nurses, respectively.



Number of graduating students: 62



Number of graduating students in attendance: 38



Number of guests (including the students): about 156



Award of certificate: Graduating students were awarded certificates, jointly signed by Eden-I and Industrial Training Fund (ITF).



Next graduation ceremony: By God’s grace, we are hoping to have the next one in 2017.


Click  here to view some of  our graduation pictures






Your visit to the centre will not only avail us the privilege to meet you physically, but you will also be able to see some of our finished product. Your visit/patronage will without any doubt, encourage and boost the morale of our trainees to produce more and eventually earn more.

Your support can be in form of funds, materials, prayer, advice or suggestion
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