Africa Diaspora Fights Coronavirus - Nigeria

The COVID-19 Pandemic has sickened more than 6 million people globally with the number of cases rising by about 80,000 daily. The disease has claimed the lives of more than 340,000 people around the world. Nigeria has more than 10,000 cases and more than 290 people have died. 

Why #AfricaDiasporaFightsCoronavius #Nigeria?

The objective of this initiative is to help finance the coordination and distribution of basic necessities (medical equipments, meals, medicines, etc) to people affected by COVID-19 and health workers, and to support raising awareness among the most vulnerable popultions.

One of the most important and critical preventive measures to reduce the chances of being infected or spreading the virus is to regularly and thoroughly wash our hands with soap and water and that is a major problem in Nigeria as many Nigerians in rural communities do not have access to clean portable water. Can someone wash hands regularly and thoroughly without availability of clean water? The answer is, No!

Without water to wash hands, the risk will be high as the virus will spread more through community transmission.

Our main Objectives:

#AfricaDiasporaFightsCoronavirus #Nigeria wants to leave an enduring impact and legacy through provision of portable water to three rural communities without access to portable water. Currently in these communities, people cannot afford regular hand washing for lack of clean and portable water.

This very important, unique and life changing project will change their lives and will live far beyond COVID-19 Pandemic because water is not only essential in the fight against this very pandemic but water is life!

The provision of water (boreholes) will involve:

1. Surveying

2. Machine drilling of borehole

3. Installation of submersible pump

4. Water tanks

5. Water tank stand and

6. A 4KVA generator. 

Our secondary objective is to compliment the limited efforts of the government and other donors in providing personal protective equipments (PPEs), precisely face masks and hand sanitizers to frontline workers in selected isolation centers and to market women and men especially those handling and selling foodstuff.

Five African countries have gone live with various initiatives/projects already, the countries are Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Nigeria is the sixth to go live, with your support and donation, we will succeed.

The Project Team

Those involved are citizens, members in the diaspora or residents of Nigeria who want to act for Africa. 

Dr. Frank Dike

Dr. Frank Dike is a change Management Consultant, an Accountant and a Black History Month Laurette resident in Montreal, Canada. Since 2003, Frank has been involved in community work with young black people as Director General of the non-profit organization, Mission for Peace (MOPIC). He supports young people through the Get Off the streets (GOTS) program in Lachine and LaSalle and with his background in Accounting, provided financial advice and support to community organizations. He set up a financial transition program for young people and adults which was adopted by the Petite-Bourgogne Job Centre.

Dr. Dike supports youths in Motion. In Nigeria, he founded Centre for Public Research and Outreach Initiative (CEPROI) which objectively seeks citizens especially youths and community engagement on policies and programs, as well as integrate University education to the communities across Nigeria.

Nma Phil Onuigbo B.Eng, MBA, NSE, NIM

Nma Phil Onuigbo is an Engineer, a Humanitarian, Trainer, Public Speaker, Coach and Mentor, a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), Nma worked for Shell Group in Nigeria with vast experiences in different fields and functions.

She is the President/CEO of Multi-Talents Training Team, a group of professionals who provide multifaceted business services. Nma has been a Rotarian since 2007, she is the Founding/Charter President of Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Airfield, she also founded Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Creekview same year with her club, both clubs are doing tremendous jobs, impacting communities and the world with numerous life changing projects.

She served Rotary International as an Assistant District Governor for District 9141 and is currently a District Representative for Rotarians Wine Appreciation Fellowship, Nigeria. Nma is a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation having donated more than $13,000 (US dollars) to support Rotary International’s efforts in doing good in the world especially in the area of Polio eradication. Her Rotary club which she founded is the club with highest donation to Rotary Foundation in Africa zone 20 for many years. 

She has been recognized severally with numerous awards from Shell Nigeria, Shell Club, Rotary International and Nigeria Universities Engineering Students Association (NUESA).

Nma was one of the presenters and panelists at the Women in Rotary event at the Rotary International 2019 International Convention in Hamburg Germany and was instrumental in assisting the Rotary Club of Chicago Southeast, USA get the necessary funding for their recently-approved Rotary Foundation Global Grant to work with the Emcee Skool to develop Peace Ambassadors in their community using Spoken word. Nma is a board member, De-Marillac Centre for Street Children.

 Dapo Segun

Dapo Segun is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, his career as a Chartered Accountant spans thirty years, twenty-five of which was spent in the employment of Chevron, working at various times in the oil major’s Lagos Nigeria, Houston and San Ramon USA offices.  He is the Group General Manager, Treasury at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

Komlan Messie

Komlan Messie is a Togolese who is resident in Nigeria, He is the General Secretary (Executive Director), West Africa Civil Society Forum (WACSOF)  which covers 15 countries and 12 thematic areas

Komlan MESSIE holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Engineering School of Thies (Senegal), MBA degree (from HEC Montreal) and M.Sc. (Master of sciences from Polytechnic of Montreal). He is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional) as well as PRINCE2 certified.

Mr. MESSIE is an expert in strategy, management and business transformation in both public, private and non-for-profit sectors with national and international organisations. He is the co-founder and first chairman of REPAF (Réseau des Entrepreneurs et Professionnels Africains / African Business Network). and has served as Vice-President and Board of directors at the PMI (Project Management Institute), MBA Association of Québec (AMBAQ).

His involvements have been recognized many times.
Mr. MESSIE is laureate of "Black History Month", 2007. He is "leader of Diversity in 2018 and ‘’laureat batisseur’’ of the RJCCQ (Regroupement des jeunes Chambres de Commerce du Québec) in Canada.

Our target is EURO 17,224 excluding administrative fee of 7% charges by Jamaafunding which they have graciously reduced to 3.5% to support team Africa Diaspora fights Coronavirus.

The funds will be spent through competitive bidding in the execution of the project and the funds that will support our primary/main objective is Euro 12,024 while Euro 5,200 will support our secondary objective. We will like to collect the Euro 12,024 as soon as the donation reaches that amount, to enable us begin the process of borehole drilling as we wait to reach the final goal.

Below is our Provisional Budget for the primary/main and secondary objectives:

 Primary/Main objective

Secondary objective