Nigeria and Nearby
Nigeria is the first home of Dadamac, which started because Pamela McLean and various Nigerian friends and contacts had been collaborating for several years in miscellaneous ways. About Dadamac explains the organisational structure.
Since 2004 there has been a strong ongoing collaboration between John Dada, in North Central Nigeria. and Pamela McLean, in London. We have weekly UK-Nigeria team meetings online. Meeting details can be found in Nikki's blogs
John's work in Nigeria, especially at Fanstuam Foundation and Attachab ,provide the basis for practical work we enable in Nigiera, and provides a steady stream of grass-roots information.
This Dadamac.net site has been giving the ongoing Dadamac Nigeria story since March 2009. Good places to start digging deeper into our work are Initiatives and the Dadamac Monthly Digest.
The precursor of Dadamac was Cawdnet, which grew out of the work of the late Peter Adetunji Oyawale.
See the work of Folabi Sunday (Fola) for the continuation of this work through the Dadamac outpost in Ago-Are.
Initiatives filed under Nigeria and Nearby
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Attachab
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John Dada's vision for Attachab is that it will be a model integrated farm with a high hands-on learning component, it will be the base for various SMEs...
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Daily Nutritional support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children - Visibility
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Ongoing: Fantsuam Foundation provides daily nutritional support, in this instance lunch, for 17 OVCs . These children are highly vulnerable HIV/AIDS orphans...
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Elderly-Kakas Programme
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The Kakas Programme (‘grandmother’ in Hausa) serves grandmothers that have taken on the role of caregiver to their grandchildren. The majority of their parents...
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ESSPIN
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April 2010, Fantsuam Foundation signed a DFID contract to reactivate local community involvements in running of village schools. ESSPIN stands for...
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Fast Tractor
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Fast Tractor is a UK based initiative started in May 2012 to help Fanstuam Foundation purchase a government subsidised tractor. The tractor is to use at...
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Feeding the Street Children - visibility
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Known locally as the Almajirai Food Programme.Fantsuam Foundation is feeding approximately twenty street children. The project is targeting the Muslim children...
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Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC)
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The Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC) is at the main Fantsuam Foundation compound. The KRC offers free Internet connectivity, and reference books, CDs and...
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Microfinance - visibility
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Microfinance was established at Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria in 2001 following the Grameen model. Its success has been overseen by Kazanka Comfort and John...
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Plastic recycling - a pilot study
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A collaboration between Fantsuam Foundation and Developing Technologies. Funded by Comic Relief. Initiated by Dadamac. Updated September 2012 Linus in UK...
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Sickle Cell - visibility
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This is a project overseen by John Dada and run by Fantsuam Foundation. The aim is to raise the awareness of this disease both locally and internationally. To...
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Beekeeping - training and livelihoods
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Typically in Nigeria, honey is collected from the wild, and then sold by women in the local markets. It can be contaminated with debris, brownish in colour,...
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Broadband for Nigeria (BB4N) - visibility
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John Dada is actively involved in this project. On August 28th 2010 he chaired the Broadband for Nigeria stakeholders Forum in Abuja, Nigeria. Prior to this...
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Cameras For Communication (C4C)
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Cameras for Communication (C4C) is a practical training course, covering basic camera operating skills, specifically for communication. (First two photos here...
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Child Carer Project - visibility
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Successfully completed. The child carer project targeted child headed homes. The 50 beneficiaries were children who had had to assume the adult...
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Community Action Committees (CACs) - visibility
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This is a Fantsuam Foundation initiative. In December 2010 Fantsuam Foundation contacted community leaders from the many different districts that they...
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Community Cohesion and Conflict Resolution
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This initiative was started in response to the challenge that John Dada is facing because of post election violence,in the local community (in the...
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Community Media Unit (CMU) - visibility
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At the UK- Nigeria meeting on 6th April 2011, John Dada informed us that Fantsuam Foundation now has a team of enthusiasts keen to start their new Community...
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Ecodome at Attachab
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Marcus Simmons has helped people to construct eco-friendly buildings, including ecodomes, in various countries. He wanted to discover if the methods would...
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ExpLAN and field trials of the Solo
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In 2002 Pamela organised a field trip for Paul Richardson of Explan. They spent the first week in Abuja meeting with politicians, thanks to Senator Diffa...
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Famine Prevention Project - visibility
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The background and current situation On April 18th 2011, post-election violence broke out in five of the communities where the NGO, Fantsuam Foundation...
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HIV/AIDS Programme - visibility
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Fantsuam Foundation's mission is to eliminate poverty and disadvantage through integrated development programmes. Close to 4,500 individuals benefit from...
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Information Centre at Ago-Are
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The Ago-Are Information Centre was set up by OCDN (Oke-Ogun Community Development Network) in Nigeria in collaboration with Pamela McLean in UK as the main...
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Kafanchan Peace Market - visibility
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Following the post-election violence in April 2011 the idea of rebuilding the razed market as a peace and reconciliation project emerged from discussions...
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Kafanchan Peace Traders - visibility
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April's Post-Election violence in Kafanchan took the local community by surprise. Summary Fantsuam Foundation, led by John Dada, was at the heart of tending to...
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Martin Luther Day January 2012 - Kafanchan - visibility
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During one of the regular UK-Nigeria online meetings in November 2011, John Dada, CEO of Fantsuam Foundation, shared with the team his vision.John told us...
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Needs analysis for COL
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In 2003 Krishna Alluri of COL (Commonwealth of Learning) asked Pamela to do a needs analysis in Ago-Are. David Mutua and Pamela organised this together....
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Oke-Ogun Community Development Network (OCDN)
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This is the network that was set up in Oyo State to continue the work of the late Peter Adetunji Oyawale. The commitee was originally called Oke-Ogun...
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children - visibility
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Our sister organisation, Fantsuam Foundation, in North Central rural Nigeria, runs an Orphans and Vulnerable Childrens Programme (OVCs) which includes the...
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Rice Project - Visibility
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Fantsuam Foundation is one of three organisations selected. The Federal Government of Nigeria, in conjunction with the World Bank, are supporting the...
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Rumbu (Hausa word for food bank) - visibility
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The Rumbu or food bank is situated at Fantsuam Foundation. Food from which is given to children to make up for perennial food shortage usually caused by poor...
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Teachers Talking
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Teachers Talking (TT) is an introduction to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for teachers in rural Africa. It is an inservice training course...
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Training for the visually impaired (JAWS) - visibility
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John Dada oversees this project at Fantsuam Foundation. This is a fantastic initiative which will make the Fantsuam Academy courses accessible to the sight-...
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Yoghurt Bull
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Inspiration The inspiration was the example of the Danone's Social Business in Bangledesh, manufacturing affordable yoghurt for malnourished children. It is...
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Zittnet - Rural Connectivity - visibility and appreciation
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Dadamac could not have come into being without the Internet connectivity provided by Zittnet. Zittnet ("Appropriate power and ICTs for the developing world")...