Marvella Odili Becomes African Changemakers Fellow 2018.

Founder and CEO of Save Our Needy Organisation, Marvella Odili, was recently selected as an African Changemakers Fellow. 

The African Changemakers Fellowship (#ACFellowship) Program selects impressive African visionaries between the ages of 25-40 to train and empower them to change their communities positively across Africa and beyond. These committed changemakers know best how to transform their communities and businesses.

Selected Fellows are passionate about people, planet and process. They are never satisfied with the status-quo. They push their limitation button. They think outside the box and make things happen. They take action.

More than 1,830 people from 40 African countries applied for the second cohort of the Fellowship.

Congratulations Marvella! Keep rising.

Read more about the program here: http://africanchangemakers.org/acfellowship-cohort-2-women/

20 Lucky Winners Emerge In the GTBank #SimpleChangeBigImpact Challenge.

Twenty lucky people have been selected to make their ideas reality and positively impact their communities in the GTBank's #SimpleChangeBigImpact Challenge.

Winners were declared after members of the public voted on social media for social innovations with the best potential to transform communities. Each winner will receive N1 million to implement their project which should not take more than 5 days. 

This Challenge is the first of its kind organized by GTBank Nigeria to uplift communities and encourage innovation.

More than 400 entries were received and only 40 were selected by a panel of judges made up of CSR experts and social innovators.

The final stage of the competition was decided by members of the public who "liked" their favorite community development projects on the GTBank Instagram page.

Congratulations to the lucky winners!

Below is a list of the top 20 entries.

Nigeria Makes Great Strides In Healthcare

The house of representatives has passed a bill authorising free healthcare for pregnant women in the country.

The bill seeks to mandate free antenatal and postnatal health services to pregnant women in government hospitals.

Sponsored by Tony Nwoye from Anambra state, the bill was presented at plenary on Thursday.

If passed into law, women would be able to receive up to three months of free medical services after child delivery.

During previous debates on the bill, Nwoye had explained it would also address discrimination against pregnant women in their place of work.

He said the bill would ensure that every pregnant woman in the country is registered in a government hospital within three months of conception.

“Funding for the programmes for the bill is expected to come from funds earmarked for the basic healthcare provision fund and statutory provisions from the federal budget,” he said.


Culled from Cable

5 Nigerian Girls Break Record In Technology

Five teenage girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha, Anambra State in Nigeria were crowned world champions at the World Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, United States, last night. The girls beat teams from USA, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to clinch the gold medal.

The girls namely Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye are reported to be attracting a lot of attention in the world's greatest technological hub.

The Nigerian team at the event

The team representing Nigeria won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

Under the tutelage of Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu the CEO of Edufun Technik STEM, the Golden Girls spent five months researching and developing FD-Detector which swept through over 2,000 competing applications to get to the finals in San Francisco.

Technovation is a programme that offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the programming skills they need to emerge as tech-entrepreneurs and leaders.

Every year, girls are invited to identify a problem in their communities, and then challenge them to solve them by developing Andriod applications that would address those problems.

115 countries participated in the qualifiers but only 12 teams from all over the world were selected as finalists for the pitch in Silicon Valley.

The girls will also be attending field trips, life-changing workshops including a networking session during their one week stay in America.

Marvella Odili Gets International Recognition

Award-winning humanitarian, Founder and CEO of Save Our Needy, Marvella Odili, has been nominated for the Vigor Awards International "Achievement Award." Marvella was nominated for her exceptional selfless service to humanity.

Vigor Awards International is a non-profit organization aimed at celebrating, honoring, rewarding and showing appreciation to heroic individuals who have shown selflessness and dedication to others. These individuals have made impact in the world by bringing positive changes, improving, encouraging or empowering other people's lives.

It is an annual two-day event where nominees, award-winners, presenters amd friends come together to wine and dine, network and most importantly, give back to the finest people I'm the world through an award ceremony.

Community leaders, philanthropists, humanitarians, religious advisers and volunteers have been celebrated at the event.

Some of the people who have been honored include F.A Cole (Award-winning humanitarian and anti-FGM activist), Dele Momodu, (Nigerian Publisher of Ovation Magazine), Bret "The Hitman" Hart (retired WWE professional wrestler) and Art Barron (President of REACH International).

The award ceremony takes place in Canada annually.

                                        Congratulatory letter sent to Marvella Odili.