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CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 Sep 2020
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:
1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG GIRLS (INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES) FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE TO SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES STARTING FROM CHITWAN NEPAL AND NIGERIA (ANAMBRA STATE IN EASTERN NIGERIA) WHO ARE FORCED INTO EARLY MARRIAGES, VULNERABLE TO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND SCHOOL DROPOUTS. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EDUCATING GIRLS AND WOMEN GROWS ECONOMIES, REDUCES CONFLICT, AND IMPROVES PUBLIC HEALTH. THE CHARITY WILL ACHIEVE THIS BY:
A) RAISING AWARENESS TO THE COMMUNITIES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF GIRLS AND WOMEN EDUCATION.
B) BY EXPOSING TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL BELIEFS THAT HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRL’S EDUCATION THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DISCUSSION OF THE GIRL’S RIGHTS TO EDUCATION AND PROMOTION OF EQUALITY.
C) CHANGING PERCEPTION OF COMMUNITIES WHICH TREATS GIRLS AND WOMEN AS A COMMODITY THAT CAN EASILY BE DISPOSED, SOLD AND EXCHANGED FOR ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY BY CIVIC EDUCATING THE COMMUNITIES THAT EDUCATING YOUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN IS THE BEST WAY TO ESCAPE EXTREME POVERTY AND MOVE TOWARD A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
D) PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO THE GIRLS TO AID THEIR QUEST TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS. THIS WILL INCLUDE SCHOLARSHIPS, SCHOOL MEALS, BURSARY, SCHOOL MATERIAL SUCH AS NOTEBOOKS, TEXTBOOKS, IPAD WHERE NEEDED, BICYCLES TO THOSE WHO ARE COMING FROM FAR TO ATTEND SCHOOL AND HOSTELS WHERE NEEDED.
E) CREATING A GIRL FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT BY WORKING WITH TEACHERS IN SCHOOL WHICH ENCOURAGES GIRLS TO TALK FREELY ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS WITHOUT FEAR.
2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY [OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP] ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THE CHARITY WILL WORK BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.
3. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ESTABLISHING MOBILE ANTENATAL CLINICS IN THE COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE ARE NO SUCH SERVICES, EDUCATING MEN AND PREGNANT MOTHERS IN FAMILY PLANNING, EDUCATING MOTHERS IN PREVENTION OF TRANSMISSION OF HIV FROM MOTHER TO CHILD AND EDUCATING THE COMMUNITIES IN ENDING THE STIGMA SURROUNDING CAESAREAN BIRTH, INITIATING MOBILE UNDER-FIVE CLINICS AND RAISE AWARENESS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTING, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF SEXUAL TRANSMISSION INFECTION.
