Through your donations, collaborations, partnership and sponsorships, IBWU has been able to initiate change and completed the following community projects and the following portfolio shows our shared success and pride. We would not have done this without YOU. 

The Cleaner Communities in Nigeria initiative – Completed Projects.

1. Abraka Delta State. Regeneration exercise which turned a refuse dump into a recreation park. Projected completed in conjunction with Dalong Arts, Abraka. April 2022. 2. NTA College, Jos. Donation of garbage bins made from tire. The bins have been placed all over the campus. Projected completed in conjunction with JCI NTA Jos. April 2022.…

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IBWU Christmas Cheers Initiative

IBWU Christmas Cheers Initiative. IBWU Foundation, in collaboration with JCI Nigeria and CSR-In- Action, donated food and clothing to communities in Ajah, Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. IBWU Foundation, -It Begins With U-, Junior Chamber International, JCI Nigeria and CSR-In-Action, working in collaboration, put smiles on the faces of Ajah residents in Lagos…

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Hidden Treasures – Part 3

IBWU Hidden Treasures initiative July 17, 2021, Ontario Canada. Donation and collection of gently used clothing, books and toys, shipped to Nigeria and donated to orphanages and seniors. What you do not need is treasure to those who desperately need them. We honour and respect the dignity of our people. -It Begins With U-.  

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IBWU ONE TALENT INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE WOMEN – KADUNA

IBWU ONE TALENT INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE WOMEN – KADUNA   Our “ONE TALENT” initiative in its simplest form is IBWU’s empowerment program, which supports the belief that you empower a community when you empower a woman. ONE TALENT seeks to train economically active women in the vocational trades of hairdressing and sewing. They will be awarded a…

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IBWU ONE TALENT INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE WOMEN

IBWU ONE TALENT INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE WOMEN   Our “ONE TALENT” initiative in its simplest form is IBWU’s empowerment program, which supports the belief that you empower a community when you empower a woman. ONE TALENT seeks to train economically active women in the vocational trades of hairdressing and sewing. They will be awarded a certificate and…

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Hidden Treasures – Clothing Drive Part 2

Hidden Treasures – Clothing Drive Part 2   IBWU Foundation, -It Begins With U-, continues to be committed to collecting and providing gently used clothes, shoes, and other personal items to the needy in Nigeria and Canada. On October 10, 2020, -It Begins With U-, organized its 2nd Clothing Drive event in Caledon Ontario. The…

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Hidden Treasures

The mystery and origin of clothes is quite intriguing. It almost seems like a journey from leaves to cotton. From time immemorial, clothes have offered us protection from nudity. Its hard to resist a chuckle at how the world would have looked today if the leaves were still in play coupled with the fact that…

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Food Drive Initiative at Mushin Lagos in partnership with JCI Eko

Food Drive Initiative at Mushin Lagos in partnership with JCI Eko “I have learnt to give not because I have so much but because I know the feeling of having nothing” – Bernajoy Vaal. Today, at Olowo Street, Olateju community, Mushin Lagos; JCI Eko in Partnership with IBWU (It begins With U) Foundation truly went…

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IBWU FOUNDATION COVID-19 FOOD RELIEF COLLABORATION

IBWU Foundation’s response to the COVID -19 pandemic included partnering with the Junior Chambers International Nigeria in Ibadan, Asaba, Anambra, Owerri, and Lagos, as well as Rotary Port Harcourt and Umuahia and the Young Achievers Entrepreneur in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria, and the SEYP (Society for the empowerment of young persons) in the Edo State to…

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Community Sanitation & Water Project in the Takalafiya Community, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria

Community Sanitation & Water Project in the Takalafiya Community, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria IBWU in collaboration with a Community in Abuja called Takalafiya based in the rural district of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, and through IBWU’s initiative for Growth & Sustainability with a partner called Environmental Focus, sponsored a trigger assessment event on…

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Interactive seminar organised by IBWU for South Eastern Nigerian Women

Interactive seminar organised by IBWU for South Eastern Nigerian Women Interactive seminar organised by IBWU for South Eastern Nigerian Women, March 12th 2020, at Royal Palace Hotel AGBANI Road Enugu, consisting of a Seminar/lecture on being the catalyst for the change we want in our community as well as a demonstration of basic CPR techniques.

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Community Sanitation Project – An end to open defecation in Takalafiya Community, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.

IBWU in collaboration with a Community – Based Initiative for Growth, Sustainability and Environmental Focus, participated and sponsored the community trigger assessment event on Saturday February 22, 2020. The planned construction and hand over of sanitary facilities which include a mechanized borehole that will provide clean water to cater for the Takalafiya Community and its people is…

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IBWU organized the first Clothing Drive event!

Ibwu organized its first Clothing Drive event on 25st of January at the recreation centre in Brampton. The main goal of the event was to gather donations of gently used summer and winter clothes for people that desperately need it in Nigeria.

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