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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
The problem:
Almost 3 million people have been displaced from North-east Nigeria due to the activities of the Boko-haram insurgents since 2009. The forcibly displaced persons we have been in contact with are among those who somehow found their way to Abuja. Abuja has over 40 refugee camps, with an average of more than a thousand residents in each camp.
Many women in IDPs camps near Abuja are trained in handicrafts, but it hasn’t reflected on living standards within the camps because nobody who wants to go shopping would ever think of going to do so at the IDP camps. And the fellow camp residents would rather eat than shop anything non-essential. They are all mostly unemployed, so there is no purchasing power to support their businesses.
Our solution at Techfugees Nigeria:
Techfugees Nigeria is connecting those women through a e-commerce platform, Displaced People's Market, facilitating digital skills training to make them autonomous in managing the website and promoting their products.
The money generated from e-commerce sales will go toward building shelters for their craft work, and providing training opportunities for more displaced persons. There's no need to reinvent the wheel. The traditional artistic knowledge and technical know-how are there. They just need to be connected.
👉🏾 Read more about their work in this article.
We need your support to scale our impact !
The learnings from our experience with Displaced Peoples' Market will help us share the word with other grassroot organizations providing wifi hotspots and legal information internationally through our volunteer Chapters network.
Where will your donation go ?
During the next 6 months starting from September 2021, Techfugees staff members and volunteers will:
- Collect and install IT material in the pilot Camps (2000€ NEEDED)
- IT costs (domain name, material...);
- Data costs;
- Logistics (transport, food).
- Prepare and organize a series of workshop on how to
run a e-commerce platform (2000€ NEEDED)
- Research for curated content and distribution;
- Multilingual tutorials;
- Volunteer training to install the equipment onsite ;
- Logistics (transport, food, projector rental).
- Research and publish a report to list existing solutions and best practices for e-commerce empowerment for forcibly displaced persons internationally (2500€ NEEDED)
- Support the technical development of Basefugees (2500€ NEEDED)
👉🏾 10% of the funds collected will be donated to the women in the camp for the time they spend in building this initiative (MIN. 1000€).
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