About Us
Mohammed VI vocational training institute Maiduguri (M6VTI) is a not-for-prot institute aimed at developing youths, males and females, with high quality skills required in the construction industry. The goal is to provide the youth with opportunities for sustainable livelihoods through formal training in entrepreneurship, management and other life skills.
The Boko Haram insurgency has created multiple challenges for Nigeria particularly in the North East where communities have been decimated forcing millions to become internally displaced. This displacement from their homes has caused growing unemployment among youths, despair and consequent loss of dignity. This condition provides an environment on which the appeal for Boko Haram festers among youths.
Also, ongoing reconstruction efforts of communities affected by the insurgency is faced by a dearth of local high-quality skills. The M6VTI has identied that through training of youth in construction industry related disciplines, the short-term ambitions of mitigating the lure of Boko Haram while providing local workforce for the reconstruction. The long-term potential for youth empowerment and sustainable living ensures the foundations of a strong society are set.
Established in 2003 with the goal of empowering girls through education, life skills and market relevant livelihood skills to live to their best potential regardless of their socio-economic class, Girl Child Concerns has continuously sought ways of improving the lives of girls and women in Nigeria and other countries in Africa. With offices in Abuja, Kaduna, Maiduguri and Birnin Kebbi, its numerous interventions have not only provided access to education for young girls, but also provided them awareness on their reproductive lives, rights, entitlements and responsibility. To achieve this, the organisation works with the girls, their parents and communities, governments, religious and traditional leaders as well as other organisations and institutions with similar interests. Girl Child Concerns provides holistic interventions that meet the needs of vulnerable adolescent girls, especially those from poor rural areas, disadvantaged and undeserved groups like married adolescents and girls in humanitarian settings. Our specific interventions include Education and Female Students Scholarships for vulnerable girls, Adolescents Reproductive Health & Rights, Advocacy and community mobilization and sensitization on civil rights and responsibilities as well as promoting gender equity. We work with women in communities to promote women empowerment, and sensitization on their roles and responsibilities. We promote and strengthen Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Reproductive Child Health and Nutrition in Communities with poor health indices by training Village Health Workers, Community Health Workers and Nurses/Midwives on simple and proven interventions that improve RMNCH+N. We support, train and work with traditional and religious leaders as well as other community leaders to get them to be actively involved in promoting girls education and women empowerment in their communities. These leaders are leaders are actively involved in our advocacy for Keeping girls in school in Africa. The organization has empowered and promoted girl child education and providing educational support to young people through its Female Students Scholarships Scheme (FSSS), Safe Spaces and life skills development. Through a comprehensive approach, the process of the scholarship scheme is built in such a way that the girl-child is not only offered formal education but also armed with general life skills; self-agency, responsible adolescents, Reproductive Health and GBV education, as well as Climate Action.
Envisaged to be a technical training institute with reference point to produce competent, high quality, creative, principled, productive, disciplined and skilled workforce for the construction industry with entrepreneurial qualities.
To be the best technical vocational education and training institute in Nigeria, which leverages global best practices in learning, instruction and practice as a basis for creating a highly skilled workforce for the regional construction industry.
An Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Public Health Physician with extensive knowledge and experience in strategic planning and implementation of health and social transformation initiatives, Dr. Mairo has worked with a wide range of stakeholder locally and Internally including high level government officials, traditional and religious leaders, women groups and civil societies across Africa. In addition to her carrier experiences and work as a gynecologist, Dr. Mairo has led many initiatives including being the Senior RH/ HIV Advisor for USAID, Health Systems Specialist for University of Columbia, Country Representative of Packard Foundation and Gates Foundation. Dr. Mairo is currently a Senior Fellow with the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) UK supporting the localization of the foundation’s program in Africa, including Universal Health Care and PHC initiative as well as leading on Keeping Girls in School in Africa Initiative. As part of her civic responsibility, Dr. Mairo is the founder and Board Chair of Girl Child Concerns, an NGO dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through providing educational opportunities and lifesaving skill for girls, including married adolescents, and providing income generation for poor women. As part of this initiative and in her personal capacity, Mairo has in the last five years been deeply involved in efforts to rebuild the Boko Haram ravaged North East Nigeria; ensuring girls affected get by insurgency resume and have good education and women have income generation activities to rebuild their dignity. Dr. Mairo is presently a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) that helps to shape and continuously improve the performance of the UN Central Emergency Response Funds. The Group also advises the UN Secretary General on global emergencies, and responses. Dr. Mairo is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at University of Maiduguri, and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She serves a member of the Governing Council of Nile University Abuja, the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Nigeria and Advisory Council of Ondo State University of Medical Sciences.
Our Key Objectives
Being a social concern, M6VTI programmes will target and support initiatives aimed at:
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