Mado Village Newness Project

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The Mado Village Newness Project is a life changing program… Information on the prevailing poor economic condition of most of these people in rural Nigeria, with Mado Village as pilot points was provided to the Nabuur volunteers’ operators by the local people themselves.

Project Focus

Building on the available information from the rural people about the state of the challenge, the focus of this project will be to work with Nabuur experts in the West, Online volunteers, the Nigerian government and many other interested rural development partners to expose rural Nigerians to a relatively low cost effective and health friendly renewable energy for people-centred transformation.

The main purpose is to bridge the gap between the poor rural people and the urban rich, when it comes to lighting. This means easy to afford locally assembled LED solar technology is on ground to solve daily local challenges of rural Nigerians in the area of clean water, education, power (electricity) and communication as well as healthcare and job opportunities.

Community Situation Analysis:

Mado Village is an integral part of Jos, the state capital of Plateau in Nigeria. A recent situation analysis showed that Mado Village has an estimated figure of about 1% of the total population of four (4) million people in Plateau State.

Plateau is one of the 36 States of a country of over 140 million people. This means Mado Village and other surrounding cottages constitute a population of over 40,000 people and contribute immensely to State/National growth in terms of human resource and agriculture.

It houses many tourist attraction facilities of the State and surrounded by many hills, rocks, valleys and hotels. Ironically, Mado Village has a high level of intellectual and moral decadence due to neglect and deprivation of:

• Right to adequate electricity
• Good portable drinking water
• Education
• Communication.

The local community has been one of the poorest and backward areas in the state since many administrations. As a result, many youth, women, children and other vulnerable group are less empowered, illiterate, and malnourished and face other health challenges resulting from the use of fossil fuel lantern for lighting their homes, consumption of unsafe drinking water and lack of enough access to information and communication tools for training and capacity building.

Solving the puzzle:

• The project will first mobilize and train few unemployed persons on how solar cells work, the application of solar cell technology, and how to assemble these cells into panels to get enough power to light bulbs in rural communities.

• The trained persons become operators in different centres and locations of the project. They easily assemble market and sell products at relatively low cost to rural people for use.

• They also repair and train others on assembling and repair as well as installation of the solar PV systems on churches, schools, local clinics across rural Nigeria etc.

• With knowledge on how to generate energy from sunlight, the local people can on their own connect positively-charged layers with negatively-charged layers to excite electrons and cause the flow of current to light the house and avoid the use of kerosene lantern, this automatically reduces cost, control global warming and improves health status.

• Through the use of solar panels and LED light, pumping clean water is made possible to the rural Nigeria through the project. This water will later be purified, packaged or bottled for sale in cities.

• The project also makes available to the rural communities, devices such as batteries for energy storage, which could be used for local telecommunication; to power tele/mobile phones, browse the net, power transistor radios etc.

Summarily, it will create multiple job opportunities, save lives and increase access to information and reduce poverty.

Project Expected Impacts:

• Availability of lighting units in village homes at a fairly consideration cost.

• Reduction of risk factors of global warming and/or ozone layer depletion through replacement of non-renewable energy with clean renewable technology.

• Capacity building through training for rural people, changing lives and assuring financial freedom for the poor.

• Closing gaps, increasing access to information and knowledge through effective use of GSM, radios and nights lighting for personal reading of books.

• Water is life, access to clean treated drinking water is sure, which reduces cholera prevention rate, improve health and create jobs through sales of package/bottled water

Project cost and duration

Mado Village Newness project experts to test run for two (2) years and will cost (£498,500 GBP)

Partnership

Implementing partners:

• Nabuur Mechanism, the volunteers and the local people work round the clock to ensure realization of set out impacts, project strengthening and sustainability through volunteerism, financial and technical supports. To keep this on and ensure project expansion and extension for more impacts is optimally expensive. You can partner with this project as an individual or organization. Reaching one person at a time is the best way to reach the entire rural Nigerian poor families in time. Here are what your financial and technical partnership support can solve in Mado Village:

• It takes 50 to 60 solar cells to light one bulb, maybe about 200 to light a home depends on the application. £20 can brighten 2 families lives at a time and in many times.

• Purchase of project van for easy transfer of assembled solar powered LED to sales outlets is necessary. Where cost of components is = £5, assembled product can be sold for £8 in Nigerian (Naira 1,500) equivalent.

• Money realized covers the general cost of running production and distribution centre e.g: rents, maintenance, payment to assemblers, distributors, and expansion as well as water purification program.

• Your contribution can also buy batteries/chargers, inverters, LED lanterns, cables and water purifier.

• The project community people also contribute monthly pay of N150 per family of about 40,000 people for two years to sustain the project. They will also volunteer to secure facility and protect project personnel.

Beneficiaries

• Immediate target group of the project (Youth, women, children)
• The defined local community (Mado Village) and environs
• The government of Nigeria at states and National levels
• Project implementing partners (local and International)
• New donor or funding partners/organizations.

Source

• Africa