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2006 |
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HIV/AIDS Library Featured in the US National Commission Report
on Library and Information Needs WASHINGTON: Earlier this year, the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science released a report that describes how the current crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa can be an occasion for libraries to become more involved in education of the people in regard to prevention, treatment, and care. The report was based upon materials from sources across Sub-Saharan African, including MAYF. |
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| MAYF
Director Nduka Ozor to present at the Strength Based Strategies
2006 Conference WASHINGTON: The director of the Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum (MAYF), Nduka Ozor, will speak at the 2006 Strength Based Strategies conference in Hyderabad. |
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Releases Report of its September 2006 General Meeting NIGERIA: The Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum (MAYF) recently held its general meeting, during which attendees discussed the progress of MAYF's Catch Them Young program, in educating young people about HIV/AIDS. The meeting was held on July 28 at the Mgbala Agwa hotel and was attended by nearly 2500 persons from the Mgbala Agwa and surrounding areas. |
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Agwa Youths Forum Participates in International Survey on Successful
Practices in Involving Online Volunteers WASHINGTON: Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum (MAYF) participated in a survey conducted by Jayne Cravens, who was director of the United Nations (UN) Online Volunteer and manager of the Information Technology Service Service initiatves. |
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Gets Royal Blessing LAGOS NIGERIA: The Catch Them Young (CTY) program was launched February 15, 2006, by the traditional ruler of the Mgbala Agwa Autonomous community, Eze Charles A Ukwu. This public event was held a day after Lover's Day (Valentines Day) to officially launch the program and draw special attention to it within the Mgbala Agwa community. |
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Hosts Special Guest from South Africa LAGOS NIGERIA: MAYF recently hosted a special guest from South Africa, Daryn Liddle, 22, a conflict resolution and management advocate. Liddle visited Mgbala Agwa Community for a two week stay, from December 24 2005, through Janurary 7, 2006, to assist with a HIV/AIDS peer health educators training conference. |
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| Unusual
Rain Falls MGBALA AGWA NIGERIA November 2005: Mgbala Agwa community has been witnessing torrential rainfall this year.Normally ,this period of the year(oct-Nov.) is supposed to be dry but till date rain is still falling thereby disrupting the social and economic activities in the community. |
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Agwa Participates in Nabuur's workshop MGBALA AGWA, NIGERIA: You cant imagine the excitements of the people of Mgbala Agwa when NABUUR invited Mr. Nduka Ozor,the local representative and a community leader to participate in an 8 days workshop organised in Kenya to train her local representaives on the management of the Local representative portal in NABUUR's website. |
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Community Chief loses wife MGBALA AGWA, NIGERIA October 3, 2005: The Mgbala Agwa community was thrown into mourning last week,the 26th day of september following the death of Chief Mrs.Eunice Ukwu , Mrs.Ukwu wife of chief Charles C Ukwu the traditional ruler of Mgbala Agwa Autonomous community died after a proctracted sickness at the age of 68. |
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 Internationellt
KulturUtbyte Participates in MYAF's 'Catch Them Young'LAGOS NIGERIA September 4, 2005 – Representatives of the Swedish youth organization, Internationellt KulturUtbyte (IKU), traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to participate in MAYF's Catch Them Young, a program for educating Nigerian youth with regard to HIV/AIDS. Read more... |
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applies for another political ward MGBALA AGWA, NIGERIA September 2005 – For adequate political representations, Mgbala Agwa community has applied for another political ward from the present MGBALA/UBA POLITICAL WARD |
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Agwa gets parish MGBALA AGWA NIGERIA, August 2005 – The people of Mgbala Agwa were recently granted parishood by the Owerri Catholic Archdioceses after 25 years of agitiation. |
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 MAYF
Volunteer Recognized as 2005 United Nations Online Volunteer of
the YearBONN, 28 June 2005 – Stephan Bren, currently living in the USA, has supported MAYF with website development and maintenance. He was recently recognized by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme as one of 10 online volunteers selected on the basis of their drive, creativity and enthusiasm in supporting the work of the United Nations, NGOs and other organizations in the efforts to reach sustainable human development. |
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 Internationellt
KulturUtbyte Visits Mgbala Agwa Youth OrganizationLAGOS NIGERIA, 6 June 2005: A representative from the Swedish youth organization, Internationellt KulturUtbyte (IKU), recently traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to meet with Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum (MAYF) and community leaders, to explore ways to improve AIDS education and other health issues through collaborative projects and workshops. Read more... |
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Online
Volunteer in Turkey Helps Build HIV/AIDS Library in Nigeria: Armed
with facts, villagers work to halt spread of epidemic
- Mgbala Agwa, Nigeria—No one is sure just how many
people have died due to HIV/AIDS in this town of 15,000 but to
the people who live here, the deaths are adding up. The rising
death rate here as well as across sub-Saharan Africa, where 29
million people are living with the disease, were enough evidence
for 36-year-old Nduka Ozor, a Lagos-based business man and coordinator
of the community’s Youth Forum, that people needed to get
the facts about the disease. |
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2004 |
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 May
2004, NetAID Online Volunteering, MAYF Volunteer Recognized
- Blandina Musvoto, Zimbabwean – currently living in
Denmark, has supported MAYF in a variety of ways, from researching
donor support to leading efforts to obtain support for and development
of MAYF's first website. Congratulations Blandina! |
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Footbal
1 - HIV 0, Emily Grogono, ActionAID Magazine - NDUKA
Ozor IS THE FOUNDER and co-ordinator of Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum.
We spoke about what inspired him to create a community-based organisation
that uses football and books to tackle the problem of HIV/AIDS. |
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2003 |
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| Fundraising Event - The Q Bar in London is opening exclusively on Wednesday, 11th February 2004 for a fundraising party to benefit the development of the HIV/AIDS library in Nigeria. The party is being hosted by a number of University of London intercollegiate societies, including the UCL Law and Economics Societies, UCLACS and the SOAS Law Society. Julian Johnson has kindly donated his time and expertise to promote and organise the event, with the aid of the UCL/SOAS Fundraising Team for Mgbala Agwa. Tickets are on sale in advance and at the door, with prices to be announced. All tickets will, however, be priced at under £10. To purchase tickets, please contact Fatima Kola. | |
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with facts, villagers work to halt spread of epidemic No one is sure just how many people have died due to HIV/AIDS in this town of 15,000 but to the people who live here, the deaths are adding up. The rising death rate here as well as across sub-Saharan Africa, where 29 million people are living with the disease, were enough evidence for 36-year-old Nduka Ozor, a Lagos-based business man and coordinator of the community’s Youth Forum, that people needed to get the facts about the disease. |
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| MAYF
touted as successful example of UNV's Online Volunteering service UNV will also present its Online Volunteering service for development worldwide, whereby organisations can benefit from a large diversity of valuable advice and contributions from volunteers via the Internet. For example, the 'Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum', a small Nigerian NGO, has involved online volunteers to research donors for publications on HIV/AIDS to build up a small reference library in their community. |
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on-line: Volunteers donate time from home, for development Imagine an organization serving street children in Latin America that involves dozens of volunteers from all over the world – but never meets the volunteers in-person. These volunteers engage in on-line advocacy campaigns for the organization, produce web pages and translate materials in Spanish and English, all without ever leaving their homes. |
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| Reproductive Health in Nigeria - Reproduction, according to Oxford Dictionary is the process of producing young. In human beings and animals, it is the process of producing younger ones by the act of mating or sexual intercourse. In Nigeria, reproduction surpasses the above definition. It is more philosophical; African philosophy sees reproduction as one of the purpose of human existence. | |
 New
Library Project Planned - We are embarking on
a project, which is the first of it's kind in Nigeria. So far,
more than three thousand books have been donated. However, the
facilities are still not completed. Our United Nation volunteers
have been most wonderful and helpful in the realisation of this
project. |
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| HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: Alarming Situation - New reports indicate that there is an increase of HIV among female students in Nigeria. According to Nigeria Television Authority Network News (News line) monitored in Lagos on Sunday July 6th 2003, out of 54 female students tested in a Secondary School in South West Nigeria 34 tested positive. In another development in south part of Nigeria, of 30 female students tested in a random, 19 were positive while 11 were negative. | |
2002 |
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| HIV/AIDS Groupings - Our organisation will like to form groups with other organisations working on HIV/AIDS, to share ideas and experiences on the scourge, with particular attentions on awareness, preventions and care. | |
| Conference Presentation by Nduka Ozor - The Patrons, Confidence Club The President, and other executives of Confidence Club Members of our most respected Club Ladies and Gentlemen. When I received your invitation to present a paper on any topic of my choice, I did not give it a second thought on this topic, having been on HIV/AIDS, Advocacy for more than two years. | |
| MAYF News - The Easter campaign for 2002 attracted the community leaders. The co-ordinator of Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum, Mr. Nduka Ozor, was elected into the highest decision making body of the community. This was an opportunity Mr. Ozor utilised to make the football event annual. The football match starts every 26th of December and runs for approximately two weeks. MAYF has also opened a library on HIV/AIDS. |
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