On Monday 20th July 2022, Iya Hauwa Foundation team visited Fajiganari, Rugar Mal Umaru-Kailare, Majanna and Bulturi communities in Birniwa LGA, Jigawa State for advocacy and sensitization/awareness campaign on voter card registration, education of their children and community based projects management system. During the visit team IHF have sensitize extensively on the importance of voter card registration by giving examples that almost everything now, identity is required from opening bank account, to empowerment opportunities and most especially to electing credible leaders that will manage their affairs. IHF team also urged these communities to go to the INEC center and register because, we’ve less than 10days for the registration to close. Similarly, IHF team sensitized the communities on the importance of sending children to schools, making emphasis that if their children are educated, they can represent their communities and push for demands to the communities needs to the people in power, leaders and other stakeholders. Also the called on the need to strengthen the Sch C’tee.
Iya Hauwa foundation team have advised communities that benefited from schools projects and 10,000 ltrs of water systems to constitute a Committee that will supervised these projects (making sure, the school and its environment is always clean and safe, pupils goes to school on time, teachers are coming and entering classes on time. While committees on water projects to make sure that the whole area is secured and protected from intruders.
IHF team have also talked to the communities on the importance and to have sense of ownership of the projects.
During this visit, members of the beneficiary communities have shown their gratitude to the federal government through the ministry of works and housing and the Iya Hauwa Foundation for bringing the projects to their door steps. The community members have promised to play their role for the sustainability of the projects by taking care of the projects. They have promised to constitute some members (as a committee) that will look after the water system and its maintenance. They also promised to be contributing a token amount of money that will take care of the maintenance in the event of unforeseen problem that will arise in future.
Regarding the schools, the community members have promised to strengthen the community school-based management committee in order to make sure the pupils have gotten a quality education and the school building and its environment are well taken care of.
Iya Hauwa Foundation as an organization that is rooted in the communities and concern about the development of such communities have promised to continue to bring more protects and will engage relevant stakeholders to monitor these projects in order to sustain the projects for the longest time possible.