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me gradually beyond the girl hanced, you build resilience. donors the best results.
child to education. The norm
in a school would be for them What kind of things have Your work has taken you to
to select the best children for a you been able to do be- some high risk areas. What
competition, based on their own tween the launch and now is it that drives you to do
judgment, so I came up with an
that you would say answer what you’re doing even in
initiative to enhance the read-
the need of resilience? places where you are ex-
ing culture in that community. I Whatever God puts in my heart posing your life to danger?
organized their first ever spell- to do, we come up with initia-
ing bee competition and made tives and programs based on Sometimes it is after I’m done
it open to all. It increased the with my activity that I realize
that and implement them It is in- that I have gone to all these
confidence levels of children
teresting that we started by rais- deadly zones. For me what
in public schools helping them ing funds domestically, so with
believe they could do certain that I was able to set the pace keeps me going is that initial
things without having any lim- for CLICE, not wait for donors burden to come up with a home
itations. The ones who didn’t based solution, to change the
or even be limited to the terms narrative and to take Afrika from
make it to the final we gave out
and conditions that donors can that place of dependency to a
consolation prizes of books and set. We address education, girl
for the grand finale we gave out child advocacy, women eco- place of independence. You
Scrabble games dictionaries nomic empowerment, human see it is God Who chose the
and laptops to the children. course I would do in the Univer-
trafficking and illegal migra- sity and sometimes because of
tion and Water Sanitation and the passion; I don’t even count
How were you able to Hygiene (WASH). As the days the cost. Like one time I was
raise funds for it? go by, God opens up different involved in an accident on the
I did domestic resource mobili- areas we are able to work in. way to one of the communities
zation, I didn’t get any support In resilience building we also try and the next day I was ready to
from the local government who to find out from the people with
organized the pageant, so I whom we run interventions how
went all out to source for funds; they can have a sustainable
I wrote to different people they livelihood and rise above the
supported it and that was it. place of dependency. We try to “
It was just shortly before the come up with home-based solu- The first thing is Af-
spelling bee that I got the name. tions as well not fully relying on
I used that platform to launch donor strategies. By following rica needs to believe
CLICE Foundation. His leading and His guidance in Africa, then to
we have been able to win fund-
How would you describe ing and complete our projects be bold and confi-
what CLICE does? successfully, even where others
CLICE is meant to build resil- have not, and gain the trust of dent enough to also
ience among people, the un- donors to create extensions to challenge, tweak
der-served especially, through our projects or even to carry
livelihood enhancement. One of out new projects using our own and change the ap-
our core focuses is livelihood, customized strategies. The out-
because if the livelihood is en- comes of our activities give the proaches that these
donors sell to us.
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