MICHAEL LEGEND HOPE AND RELIEF INITIATIVE – MLHARI
Touching Lives...
MISSION STATEMENT OF MLHARI
Touching lives and restoring hope to the hopeless in all nations.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF MLHARI
- To establish libraries, schools, hospitals, orphanages and old people’s home for the under-paid and less privileged in our society.
- To provide social amenities such as clean pipe-borne water, healthcare centers, schools and refuge homes to displaced people in Nigeria and other parts of the world. And also, to support such people with drugs, food items, school stationeries and other necessities.
- To provide disaster relief support (humanitarian aid–by alleviating human need and suffering) to people in dire need of help in Nigeria, Africa, and around the world with core focus on hunger aid, clean water, clothing, emergency shelters, medical aid, vulnerable children, orphan care, and community development.
- To establish youths’ skills acquisition centers where all kinds of vocations such as tailoring, carpentry, ICT, hair dressing, baking, catering, and all types of farming and small-scale production are taught to the teeming youths and unemployed graduates in Nigeria.
- To work in conjunction with philanthropists, companies, multinational companies, and international organizations to provide start-up grants, equipment, and other support to youths and women.
- To support and mentor young entrepreneurs to develop the required skills, attitude and mindset needed to succeed.
- To promote environmental sustainability and development through awareness creation, capacity building and empowerment.
- To promote democracy and gender equality at the grassroots by mobilizing and building capacity of rural dwellers to participate in politics and socio-economic development.
- Mobilization of communities, civil society organizations and other stakeholders at the community level against corruption.
- To create awareness, re-integrate and empower victims of human trafficking, conflicts, natural disasters and other life-threatening experiences.
- To fight against exploitation, injustice and corruption if found against any individual, class or community in the society.
- To publish any book, magazine or document for instruction and imparting useful knowledge relevant to our Aims and Objectives.
- To rapidly transform rural communities with keen focus on mentorship, medical care, infrastructural development and education.
- To train and deploy volunteers, send help, relief and funding to people suffering from natural disasters and conflicts anywhere in the world.
- To undertake any other work or assignment which may be for the general welfare of the people.
MISSIONS OF MICHAEL LEGEND HOPE AND RELIEF INITIATIVE
1. Project Hope: This is the first humanitarian mission of the Institution. Following our firm belief that humanity needs humanitarians, the Project advances the core mandate of MLHARI by touching lives and restoring hope to the hopeless in all nations. Coming up three times a year, the historic Project Hope provides a platform for humanitarians, individuals, and organizations around the world to give back to humanity by contributing their quota, expressing their passions, and bringing their gifts and talents to bear in a bid to end human suffering.
2. Project 1000 Kids in School: MLHARI believes that education should be a fundamental human right, and so this Project is dedicated to out-of-school and less-priviledged children in Africa and around the world.
3. The Twin Campaign: At the discovery of the practice of infanticide (killing of certain categories of infants like twins and multiple births, babies with albinism, physically challenged newborns, and others) in Abuja Nigeria on account of some outdated cultural and diabolic belief systems, we launched this Campaign in 2018 in order to raise awareness as well as sensitize communities with the aim of ending this practice. Gains have been made, but the Campaign is still progressive.
4. Christmas Outreach: MLHARI marks Christmas yearly by taking love and support to those who need it the most in rural villages, orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons Camps, Hospitals, to mention a few. The Outreach comes up on the 26th of December annually.
SPECIALTY AREAS OF MLHARI
- Relief Materials to the poor.
- Rural Development Programs.
- Medical Outreaches to the vulnerable.
- Education Fund for out-of-school children in Nigeria.
- Humanitarian Outreaches to the interiors of society.
- Capacity Building, Skill Acquisition and Trainings.
- Support for the Widows and Orphans.
- Mentorship Programs and Rehabilitation Programs.
MODE OF OPERATIONOF MLHARI
As an NGO, there are three (3) ways we identify projects:
PREVAILING CHALLENGES: We identify projects based on the prevailing challenges confronting the nation, a state or a given locality per time. For instance, when the nation was under lockdown due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world, we organized different projects at different localities (e.g., Lukuku and Kaida villages in the interiors of Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT) to create awareness about the safety and precautionary measures for the pandemic.
We also distributed relief materials such as our locally made reusable face masks which were made by our volunteer tailors and fashion designers (since it was difficult for those communities to get a steady supply of the medical face masks) and hand sanitizers. In addition to these was the distribution of relief materials to cushion the effects of the pandemic.
We also took advantage of various strategies online to spread awareness on the pandemic.
RECOMMENDATIONS: We got a recommendation to visit a village in the interiors of Kwali Area Council from one of our partner missionaries (Pastor Simon Bulus in 2019). When the time was right, we called to notify him and went for surveillance. We took note of the needs of the community and for the love of humanity, we dedicated the 10th Project Hope Dnako village, Kwali Area Council, FCT on Saturday 29th August 2018. This is one of our usual ways of identifying project locations.
EXPLORATION & DISCOVERIES: As a Humanitarian Organization, we look into the society, organizations, and localities per time and identify various degrees of challenges ranging from food and water crisis, education, human rights abuses, community interests, to mention a few.
Our uniqueness as an organization is the fact that we go beyond the regular areas, in terms of demography and distance, we go further and deeper into localities and villages that are in dare need of humanitarian assistance. And this is one of the things we are known for.
Having identified areas of interest in a community, we pick a day to visit them, and then we engage with them by interacting with them to know the areas of their challenges. As soon as they highlight their challenges, we build the project around those challenges. For the things we can immediately accomplish, we swing into immediate action. For the things we may not be able to accomplish, we partner.
In addition, after we visit these communities and/or localities on the day appointed for the project, we start a follow-up relationship and carryout scheduled post-project visits so as to ensure that they are making progress as we explore other regions to help.
DATA COLLECTION
Part of what we do is that before and during each project we collect names, numbers, write down challenges, accomplishment and future expectations as the case maybe.
OUR TOOLS
Some of our tools include: cameras, projector screens, pictorial gestures, mentoring etc. Moving on into the future as we grow, we are hoping to bring in more tools relevant to each project to make impact easier and more effective.
Our projects cut across three very crucial areas as follows:
SENSITIZATION
By creating awareness on what we want to do at every given locality, to enable our partners, donors and volunteers know how to come in to assist in their own capacity. In addition, this covers enlightenment of beneficiaries on prevailing concerns and compliance mechanisms.
ADVOCACY
Depending on the focus per time, we remain committed to advocating for the rights of the underserved in the society. One of our main platforms for human rights advocacy is the Mass Media.
IMPLEMENTATION
With the relief materials and/or cash donations we receive from partners, donors, and supporters, we implement designated projects, such as water supply, healthcare services, education, etc. There are various localities today, as we get the opportunities and required support, we will give them schools, medical centers, easy and accessible road networks and other social amenities. As we grow we are ready to achieve more, ready to go further.
SOME TOPICS IN OUR YOUTH MENTORSHIP SESSIONS:
I. Child Abuse
II. Character Development
III. Sex Education
IV. Rape
V. Gender Based Violence (Domestic violence)
VI. Capacity Building
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