2ND DAY AT THE EMADADJA COMMUNITY FOR THE RURAL CHILD MUST READ PROGRAM (RCMR).

A team of the Onuesoke Foundation was today at the Emadadja community of Delta state with her well equipped mobile Library for the RCMR program.

The event which took place within the Emadadja Primary School compound started early this morning with so many kids itchy to get their hands on our avalanche of interesting and educative books. The children who treated themselves to books of their choice had over two hours of silent and guided reading before we went into the book review segment where two books were selected and read to the children by choice readers after which a personnel of the foundation summarized the book.

This program has revealed to us the defects in the learning of the rural child as some of them even as primary 4,5 and 6 pupils could not read at all and many others had epileptic and disjointed reading skills.
It is our expectation that at the completion of this program, we would have been able to impart in this children, proper reading skills. Be this as it may, we are still faced with the challenge of finance, and the shortage of personnel.

At the end of the event, virtually every child got a gift or the other. While the star readers went home with maths sets, story books and notebooks, others got pens and exercise books.
To keep this children attentive for this period, we introduced the recess time for recreation and light refreshment; therefore we call on the persons out there to support this great dream and help in safe guarding our future.

In all it was a successful outing and we look forward to have it better come next weekend.
Onuesoke Foundation, beaming the light for rural enlightenment.
Support this foundation as we strive to make our futures what it ought to be.

ONUESOKE FOUNDATION, RESTORING NATURE, SAVING HUMANITY.

ONUESOKE FOUNDATION MOBILE LIBRARY WEEKEND READING WITH THE CHILDREN OF EMADADJA-UDU

It was yet another great experience as the children of Emadadja community troop out in mass to partake of the weekend reading exercise sponsored by Onuesoke Foundation Mobile Library on Saturday, May, 2015.

The children had a nice time reading to extent that some of them read more than one book during the course of the exercise. Some of them that can't read well promised to put in more efforts in their academics to be better readers.

 They children were advised to be versatile in their reading behavior, to read anything they see in their homes, streets, churches etc in order to have good reading skills. They were reminded that a good reader is a good leader.

 THE BENEFITS OF THE MOBILE LIBRARY TO RURAL CHILDREN

The impact of the mobile library to children in the rural communities cannot be under-emphasized. It is an educative initiative that will help to change the lives of vulnerable children in rural communities.
                         

The mobile library is a literacy on wheels initiative that helps to bring reading materials at the “beck and call” of rural children. It brings reading materials right at doormats of rural children making it easy for them to access and use these educating materials to the fullest.

Most schools in the rural communities are void of libraries; this invariably hinders the reading capacity of children found in such areas. The mobile library has come as a messiah to help the children of the rural communities enjoy the benefits of a library like their counterparts in the more developed areas.

The mobile provides an ample opportunity for the rural children to improve their reading culture and ability. This will in turn boost the vocabulary banks of these children, equipping them proficiently in the academic world.

They say an “an idle mind is a devil’s workshop”. The mobile library consists of an initiative that allows children to borrow books and read in their homes. This keeps them children gainfully engaged during their idle periods, keeping them away from troubles.

The mobile library is equipped with both local and foreign books that expose the rural children to the intricacies of the culture and customs of the wider world.

It is a movable library that moves from place to place. It has the ability of covering a wide range of areas within a short period of time, at the same time achieving its goal and objective.

This is to mention but a few of the benefits of the mobile library to rural children. This is an initiative that has come to transform the educational and social lives of the less privileged children in rural communities!

ONUESOKE FOUNDATION MOBILE LIBRARY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. 

Open hours. 10am: 3pm saturdays.
venue for this week. Emadadja community for Emadadja and Ekrota communities. visit us during these hours at Emadaja primary school Emadadja.
come in, Pick a book and read.

HOW CAN A CHANGE OF ONE OR TWO DEGREES IN GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR LIVES?

Changing the average global temperature by even a degree or two can lead to serious consequences around the globe. For about every 2°F of warming, we can expect to see,

# 5—15% reductions in the yields of crops that are currently grown
# 3—10% increases in the amount of rain falling during the heaviest precipitation events, which can increase flooding risks
# 5—10% decreases in stream flow in some river basins
# 200%—400% increases in the area burned by wildfire in some parts of the world 

Global average temperatures have increased by more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years. Many of the extreme precipitation and heat events that we have seen in recent years are consistent with what we would expect given this amount of warming. Scientists project that Earth's average temperatures will rise between 2 and 12 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.

WE WANT YOU TO KNOW US

Our activities are spread in to four broad categories namely:
THE CORE PROGRAMES OF THE FOUNDATION IS STREAMED IN TO FOUR BROAD SPECTRA:
1. DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND STUDIES
• Perception survey
• Needs assessment
• Local economic development plans
• Social impact assessment

2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
• Participatory partnership for community development
• Interventions
• Promotion of cooperate social responsibility(CRS)

3. EDUCATION ……Partnership with the ministry of education
• Rural schools development program to improve learning and teaching standards as part of community development programs.
• (A special arm of our programs as a result of the challenges we see when we go to rural schools to teach students on tree planting exercise as a proactive measure to deforestation we see students who cannot read simple literature books we donate to them on plants and their importance.)

4 NATURAL DISASTER
• Contingency/intervention programs/management.eg flood
• Awareness campaign and teaching for proactive/reactive measures eg
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RURAL CHILD PROJECT 
PHASE ONE: FREE UNIFORMS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS

THE RURAL CHILD PROJECT.....Affecting rural communities(EDJEBA PRIMARY SCHOOL)Awhire Agbara-otor

perception survey as one of our instrument in diagnosing community felt -needs, issues affecting rural communities.Our project on education, identifying challenges of school children in rural communities.Rural children are the least motivated to go to school for the basic education needed for their personal development.not pointing at the low quality of education children in rural settings receive as their share from a government too busy in neglecting them, the social economic status of rural parents deters intrinsic motivation on the personal lives of their children by not being able to provide some basic needs like good school uniforms for their wards. In ensuring some quality of effective schooling for the rural child, ONUESOKE FOUNDATION provides some of these needs.