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Funmi Iyanda is an Africa Leadership Initiative, West Africa (ALIWA) Fellow from the 2006 Totum Bonum Class, whose passion for the needy propelled her to initiate Change-A-Life (CAL) project, with the aim of bridging the cap between the needy and potential supporters of their cause.
Inspired by the lessons learnt during the ALIWA seminars, which challenges Fellows to move from “Thought to Action” and from “Success to Significance”, Funmi decided to increased the scale of her work through CAL and immediately restructured the project. The resultant effect was the emergence of CAL as a fully operational and thriving organization.
To achieve its aim, CAL provides support via three major areas including:
Education: Provision of education scholarship to disadvantaged youth
Health: Creating access to donors
Counseling: Provision of counseling services to rape victims
CAL through its programmes has affected over three thousand (3,000) people with its scholarship and health care support services. Below are examples of programmes executed by CAL;
Reduction of Cervical Cancer by providing screening for woman living in rural areas
A rape crisis group, with a view to building a center called Chain of Hope (COH), which helps provide succor, working in conjunction with doctors, counselors and the office of the public defender
Women in Need (WIN) – a direct intervention projects that seek to assist battered women and those in dire situations
Organizing "It's not about you" – a talk series aimed at building a generation of people who realized that solving societal problems solves their own problems.
ALI West Africa Fellows are men and women between the ages of 30 and 45 from Ghana and Nigeria, who are successful in their fields of endeavours and are committed to promoting and personally exemplifying effective values-based leadership in their countries. As a result of their participation in the initiative, Fellows are required to commence change initiatives of their own choosing that will impact their immediate communities.
To date ALIWA has graduated two classes of Fellows, who have initiated high impact projects in their home countries. In addition, it successfully launched a third class of Fellows on November 30, 2009.
ALIWA is funded by Accenture, Capital Alliance, Chevron, Ford Foundation, MTN and Contributions by Fellows.
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