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EMBRACING NATURE THROUGH ART AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY: TO COMMEMORATE 2024 WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY

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Mega Impact Foundation Green Arts Family Festival to Commemorate 2024 World Children's Day Executive Summary   Mega Impact Foundation (MIF) organized its Champs and Pencils Green Art Family Festival to commemorate the UN World Children’s Day celebrated every 20th of November with the overarching objective of bringing children from across Delta State to join their counterparts across the world to celebrate the day  This year’s program in collaboration with Green sphere Environmental and Community Development Initiatives, Morgan Charitable Foundation and Women and Youth Empowerment For Global Change Initiative held in St Patrick’s College Asaba.  Background  The Champs and Pencils Green Arts Family Festival which is in its 4th year was born out of the need to raise children's awareness of different issues as it affects their development in a playful way and to let them express their dreams about the world in which they want to live. In this way they ca...

Mega Impact Foundation's Contribution To Delta State Anti-Human Trafficking (Prohibition) Law 2024

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Our submission is from a youth-focused perspective which is vital in ensuring that the law effectively addresses the needs and realities of children and young people who are disproportionately affected by human trafficking. The UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2020) notes that children constitute 34% of detected trafficking victims globally, with girls being the majority of child victims. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) reported that 60-75% of trafficking victims rescued in recent years were under 18 years old. Many are trafficked for domestic servitude, forced labor, and sexual exploitation locally and internationally. As representatives entrusted with shaping policies for the betterment of all citizens, it is imperative that we address these challenges head-on and pave the way for a more inclusive future. Our Contributions • Functions and Powers of the Task Force ( page 13) number 7 Under ...

ROADMAP TO ACHIEVING CLEAN AIR IN DELTA STATE: COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A TWO-DAY PROJECT IN COMMEMORATION OF 2022 INTERNATIONAL CLEAN AIR DAY

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                         ROADMAP TO ACHIEVING CLEAN AIR IN DELTA STATE: COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A TWO-DAY PROJECT IN COMMEMORATION OF 2022 INTERNATIONAL CLEAN AIR DAY   PREAMBLE Mega Impact Foundation in partnership with Urban Movement Innovation Fund, UK hosted her 2022 International Clean Air Day commemorative projects themed “Pedal To Cleaner Air” the two phased project was designed to establish and maximize synergies between the Government, Stakeholders and the public in the hope of starting a mind re-engineering process that will ensure implementation of the nations-set agenda in committing to UN’s set policies of achieving cleaner air and healthier environment by 2030. The two-day initiative began with a “Breakfast & A Clean Air Conversation” at the prestigious Nelson Mandela Park of 95 Trees, Asaba, Delta State that brought together major stakeholders to develop an approach, solut...