FEDERATED KURAMA YOUTH AASSOCIATION-KADUNA BRANCH MID-TERM REPORT OF OUR ACTIVITIES

By the grace of God this executive committee was elected on the 10^th November, 2013; in a free and fair election, to pilot the affairs of the association for a period of three years, conducted at Government Technical College, Malali, Kaduna. Immediately afterwards, the Exco swung into action by calling its first meeting to strategize and come up with an action-plan. One year, six months down the road we have been able to achieve the following:

§  Developed a Strategic Development Plan for the association; this was initiated to provide a road-map and direction for the association in achieving its key objectives.

§  Designed and printed the first ever association’s meeting banner: it branded the activities of the association.

§  Opened the association official E-mail and Facebook: this connected the association to the larger society and made correspondence easier.

§  Introduced a segment in our meeting called Know Your Culture: this segment promotes the Akurmi cultural development among members especially the language.

§  Organized a seminar on the role of Self-reliance and Entrepreneurship in Youth Empowerment: it was organized to build the capacity of members to be the next generation of enterprising entrepreneurs. The program was reported on KSMC 90.9FM.

§  Organized a seminar on poultry farming; this program trained our members in the skills of starting and running a poultry farm.

§  Launched the first edition of Akurmi magazine: the magazine was launched in order to rebrand, give the Akurmi people a voice and project our culture and traditions. The launch was reported on KSMC 90.9FM.

§  Published articles on Leadership Newspaper, DailyIndependent Newspaper and Kabido Newspaper: articles were sent and published to address issues affecting the socio-political development of the Akurmi people.

§  Organized a stakeholders roundtable on Akurmi Youth Manifesto: this was an agenda setting program for candidates that contested the 2015 general elections

§  Championing the Coalition of Associations for Peace, Empowerment and Development (CAPED): this is a networking and collaborative platform that thrives on the strength of partnership among registered associations and groups to advocate and address issues of peace, empowerment and development.

§  Organized a seminar on the role of the youth in a peaceful and non-violent election: the program created awareness on the various steps our youth should take during the just concluded general elections.

§  We paid a courtesy visit to Kaduna state Ministry of Youth and Sports: the visit worked-out a partnership that would see the Ministry supporting us in all our programs.

§  We paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA): the visit worked-out a partnership that would see the NTA supporting us in all our programs. They promised to cover all our programs for free and accepted in partnering with us in producing an Akurmi Documentary. It was aired on 7 o’clock NTA news.

§  We paid a courtesy visit to Kabido Newspaper: the visit worked-out a partnership that would see the Newspaper supporting us in all our programs. They promised to feature all our articles and programs on their Newspaper.

§  Two press statement on Kaduna State Media Corporation (KSMC 90.9FM): this was done to contribute and participate in decision-making and good governance in Kaduna state.

§  We facilitated the first of its kind Akurmi documentary in partnership with the NTA.

§  Opened the first of its kind on-line Akurmi-Magazine blog (www.akurmi-magazine.blogspot.com).

In conclusion, we had the dream of achieving much more but due to some constraints especially that of finance, but in the second half of our tenure, we are determined to achieve much more in empowering our youth and making the Akurmi nation thoroughly great.

Yusuf I Goje

Secretary

FKYA- Kaduna branch