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This project is designed to run for 3 years. It seeks to provide affordable and safe sewage and toilet systems for coastal communities in Nigeria by taking broken down plastic water reservoirs from urban centers and recycling them into sewage chambers and constructing affordable toilets for the purpose of reducing open defecation.

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SOFER Initiative with Pinnaclean Nigeria Limited,  carried out the “Beat Air Pollution” campaign of the UN -WED 2019 in 4 Nigerian cities of Uyo, Zaria, Abuja, and Ikot Itok community, Ibesikpo. The campaign encouraged private individuals, and corporate organizations to beat air pollution by planting trees.

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SOFER Initiative intends to make “AIRGENTS” an annual national project. This concept will be sold to schools by way of having them establish ECO clubs which willvserve as the platform for children and teenagers to carry out tree plantingvand related activities in their host communities and beyond.

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SOFER Initiative facilitated a beach clean-up exercise with GIVANAS foundation; a charity organization under GIVANAS group of companies which produce cosmetics, beverages and foods. The beach clean-up exercise held on the 9th of December 2017 at Tarkwa Bay, Lagos state and was done in a bid to give back to the community.

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SOFER Initiative in collaboration with Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) carried out the WASH campaign at Mkpanak, Ibeno, Akwa Ibom State. This community does not have access to safe and affordable drinking water, as also the fact that they practice open defecation, as such the beach was healthy enough to attract tourists.
Therefore, the WASH campaign became a necessity for SOFER Initiative who funded the clean-up activities in the beach area, with free distribution of hygiene and sanitation materials to the community residents, while raising awareness about their economic challenges which had direct implications on their sanitation and hygiene behaviours.

After the execution of this project, Multinational Oil Corporation- Exxon Mobil operating in the area, and other stakeholders in the community started to adapt accordingly, and the tourism value of the coastal community started to pick up. This campaign won Mr. Emmanuel Sofa our national coordinator and volunteer an award from the United Nations Environment.

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As part of WED 2016 celebrations and the theme “As part of WED 2016 celebrations and the theme “Go Wild For Life“. Emmanuel Sofa coordinated SOFER Initiative for a pro wild life volunteer course at Pandrillus Ranch; a reserve for short tail drill monkeys, Chimpanzees, and Afi mountain Gorillas in Boki, Cross River State.

 

This activity created a consciousness in the minds of volunteers that there was a need to look out for animal protection in their respective communities where they came from.

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SOFER Initiative put up a Road Walk to keep raising the awareness level of the public as regards environmental issues. People had to understand in practical terms the concept of “Climate change Mitigation and Adaptation”.

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This project was executed in 2014 at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Nigeria. It featured basketball contest, street campaigns about waste and the renovation of the University’s basketball court. The idea behind this theme was “proper waste management“, and basketball was the strategy to reach out to the youths and university community at large. Recognizing Emmanuel Sofa’s sacrifices towards a better environment, Ford Motors Company Conservation and Environmental Grants, USA awarded SOFER Initiative a $5,000 grant for this project.

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This campaign was directed at the local traders in Akpan Andem community market in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Designed to sensitize the public on the need to keep the urban community free of waste for a cleaner air and healthier business community and proactively speaking against the ills of an unsafe environment to market users.

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This awareness campaign was a mix of dance, music, car wash, skates, and games; to create awareness and leave lasting memories in the minds of people about the environment. This was a huge success because a lot of youths became involved in volunteering for environmental causes afterwards.

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This project was targeted at creating an eco – friendly Christmas celebrations. In time past, the burning of tires was used to mark end of the year (2013) in large parts of southern Nigeria. However, with the Green Christmas campaign, awareness level as to the impact of tires on human health has increased thereby leading to the abandonment of such practices.

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SOFER Initiative launched a Clean Up campaign in Port Harcourt, Rivers State tagged “Let’s CLEAN UP Rivers State”.

 

This campaign set the tune for the launch and adoption of Attitudinal Change towards the Environment (ACTE) in the city of Port Harcourt and its environs.

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