Fantsuam Foundation (www.fantsuam.net) was founded in 1996 by a group of Nigerian professionals in the UK diaspora who recognized the need to empower community members, particularly women, to find means of employment and income and meet their own development needs. Working in over 50 communities across 7 Local Government areas in Kaduna State, close to 35,000 individuals benefit from Fantsuam services every year and it was recently estimated that over 500,000 people have benefited either directly or indirectly from Fantsuam Foundation’s activities to date.

 

Mission: To eliminate poverty and disadvantage among rural women and youths in Nigeria through integrated development programs of wealth and job creation.

 

Vision: To be the most effective model of integrated rural development in West Africa.

 

Fantsuam Foundation’s board structure

Fantsuam Foundation is led by a Board of Directors, which has representatives from the host communities. The Board determines the policy direction of the organization, which is implemented by a Management Team made up of the heads of programs. Each member is required to serve a term of 4 years, renewable at expiry. The Board meets quarterly to receive program and financial reports, approve budget and annual program plans. The Board can also be summoned anytime if situation demands it.

 

Fantsuam Foundation’s management structure

The project management team comprises the CEO, Director of Operations, Director of Administration, Director of Finance and all heads of the departments: ZittNet, HIV/AIDS, Gaiya (National volunteering), the Clinic and Microfinance. This team meets weekly to review ongoing projects, accept progress reports and provide solutions to new challenges in the implementation of the various projects. This team also participates in resource mobilization and grants proposal development.

 

Each departmental develops their annual work plans and annual budgets as well as implement their projects. The departmental head is responsible to undertake annual Individual Performance Plan, IPP for their team members to support them in their career development

 

SERVICES

 

AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Household Food Security
  • National Coconut Development and Propagation Initiative, NATCODEV
  • Gurara Rural Electricity Users Cooperative, GUREUCS.
  • Tractor Hiring Services
  • Compressed Earth Bricks production and masonry
  • Medicinal Plants Garden
  • Renewable energy for rural communities
  • National Volunteering

 

ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT

  • Community Networks and Rural Wireless Connectivity
  • Computer-Based Test Centre (CBT)
  • Community Radio
  • e-Library
  • Digital Literacy and Cyber-hygiene Training for smallholder women farmers, rural community leaders, primary and secondary school teachers
  • Remedial education for Out-Of-school children and adults
  • Digital Literacy Training for smallholder women farmers, rural community leaders, primary and secondary school teachers

 

ICT FOR PROFESSIONALS:

  • Programming
  • Cybersecurity
  • Web design
  • Online Marketing
  • IT Essentials
  • Cisco
  • Hardware Maintenance
  • Software Installation
  • CCTV Installation
  • Projector installation & Hiring

FINANCIAL INCLUSION SERVICES

- Microfinance and Rural Banking

- Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA), Cooperatives

- Microbusiness entrepreneurship and leadershipTraining

- Business Development Services

 

HEALTH

  • Reproductive Health support for women and adolescent girls
  • Menstrual Health Management
  • Nutritional assessment and intervention for vulnerable children and adults
  • Home-based Care
  • HIV/AIDS Support Groups and Carers
  • Advocacy and counselling on communicable diseases
  • Management of Epilepsy and Sickle cell disease
  • Clinics – Sickle Cell, Epilepsy, DOT Centre
  • Psycho-social support
  • Drug compliance services
  • Support for Girl child education
  • Protection against gender-based violence and violence against children
  • Safe housing for vulnerable children and adults

 

WATER, SANITATION and HYGIENE

- Construction of 180 household toilets under the Sanitation Marketing program of the UNICEF and Rural water supply and sanitation agency, RUWASSA, Kaduna State

- Supply of water filters for staff and students

- Child and maternal training on proper hand washing for pregnant women and school children

- Kafanchan toilets: construction of public toilet for the Yakowa market, Kafanchan.

- Construction toilets in public schools

- Supervision of construction of 10 solar powered bore-holes

- Public health education on communicable diseases

- Road and Drainage construction for the Bayan loco and Ungwa Masara communities

- Provision of treated insecticides nets and sanitation during home based care

 

SOCIAL PROTECTION

- Legal Protection for vulnerable children and women

- Psycho-social and Housing Support for Older Citizens

- Safe Housing for victims of sexual violence

- Headquarters of Jama’a Older Persons Association

- Trauma and educational support for teenage mothers and rape cases

- Free Lunch, school fees and medical care for vulnerable children and child-headed households

- National Volunteering

WATER, SANITATION and HYGIENE

- Construction of 180 household toilets under the Sanitation Marketing program of the UNICEF and Rural water supply and sanitation agency, RUWASSA, Kaduna State

- Supply of water filters for staff and students

- Child and maternal training on proper hand washing for pregnant women and school children

- Kafanchan toilets: construction of public toilet for the Yakowa market, Kafanchan.

- Construction toilets in public schools

- Supervision of construction of 10 solar powered bore-holes

- Public health education on communicable diseases

- Road and Drainage construction for the Bayan loco and Ungwa Masara communities

- Provision of treated insecticides nets and sanitation during home based care

 

PEACE BUILDING

- Headquarters of the Southern Kaduna Women Peace Network, SKWPN

- Women empowerment for peace building

- Support for internally displaced teachers and children in Kaura, 2017

- Reconstruction of homes and rehabilitation of victims of communal violence, six apartments built in Goska and Bakin Kogi in 2018 and three apartments built in Tafan in 2019

- Construction of classrooms for primary and secondary school for farmers and herdsmen in Tafan

- Trauma counselling and post-traumatic stress disorder for victims of sectarian violence in Fadan Attakar, Tachira, Dangan

- Engaging Older Persons as agents of Early Warning for the Protection of the Muslim Prayer Ground in Kafanchan, 2019

- Provision of relief materials to victims of herdsmen attack, 2020

 

REPORTS

  • Annual Audit Report
  • Annual Reports

 

PARTNERS AND NETWORKS

International:

  • Association for Progressive Communications (APC),
  • The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD).
  • Community Network Forum, Africa
  • Dadamac UK;
  • UK Department for International Development (DFID);
  • Friends of Nigeria (FON);
  • International Dev Research Centre, Canada (IDRC);
  • Partners for Development (PfD);
  • USAID; Nigeria Early Recovery Initiatives, NERI
  • VSO-Nigeria;
  • Winrock International
  • Association For Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
  • KAICIID, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Intercultural and Interreligious

Dialogue

 

In Nigeria:

  • Centre for Integrated Health Programs, CIHP
  • Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition In Nigeria (CS-SUNN),
  • Communication and Information Technology for Development, CITAD
  • Global Environmental Fund Civil Society Organizations (GEF CSOs) Network,
  • Coalition of CSOs on  Education Kaduna State,
  • Network for Water and sanitation (NEWSAN),
  • Christian Urban and Rural Development Association, Nigeria (CRUDAN),
  • Partnership For Advocacy In Child And Family Health In Nigeria (PACFAH),
  • Community-Based Development NGOs (CBD-NGOs),
  • Jema’a Older Persons Association (JOPA),
  • Association Of Care Service Providers To Older Persons In Nigeria (ACSPOPIN),
  • African Research and Innovative Initiative for Sickle Cell Education (ARISE),
  • Africa Forum of Community Networks, Kaduna State Educational Accountability Mechanism (KADBEAM),
  • Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH);
  • Centre for Women and Reproductive Health, Yola;
  • Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN);
  • Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
  • Internet Society, Nigeria (ISOC)

 

 

 

 

Human / Material resources

  • Board: 7- Person Board of Trustees
  • Number of employees: 32 full time staff
  • Volunteers: 15-80 national volunteers depending on ongoing projects
  • Infrastructure: Suite of offices, 10Ha farm land, 2 motor vehicles, one motor cycle, over 250
  • Computers in the Computer-Based Test Center, Solar back-up power for 24/7 wireless internet service provision, Staff accommodation
  • Operators of Government-funded Community Communication Centre.