Qualification: Interest in lending a helping hand.
Experience: None required.
We provide bed and breakfast within the Centre’s facility. Interns provide their own lunch and dinner. Well-equipped kitchens and toilet facilities are provided at the Centre’s guest wing.
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Two of Inwelle Centre long term goals are to establish an academic journal and to establish a scholar- mentoring scholar/artist mentoring artists programmes. Hence the centre has positioned itself and built its capacity to serve as a credible place where foreign scholars seeking to do research in the region will find resources and even find accommodation. There is token fee for this service. We also welcome donations for this service. The Centre also has a scholars-mentoring-scholar project. Most of this will be in form of distance learning and area lecturers will be charged fees to take advantage of this service. Inwelle Centre is painstakingly building the on-line community that will subscribe to its Journal of Social Issues and writers that will contribute to this journal.
Volunteers are accepted in our numerous projects.
Science experts for school children science projects
Artists for budding artists projects
Reading and writing teachers for undergraduate participants research projects
Administrators for training our Centre staff
Humanities Experts for giving seminars and workshop to youth participants
Computer expert for helping to train participants
Counselors for our workshops
Project supervisors
Inwelle Centre community involvement is a major focus for 2013-2014 Programme Years. Our
satellite centre programme which started August 2011 Is being expanded to include more
communities.The bold idea behind the establishment of Inwelle Satellite Resource Centre is
to create a Youth-Helping-Youth (YHY) club that will be run by out of school girls who are
taking entrance exams into higher institutions and for senior secondary school (SSS) youths
aged 14 – 18, under the supervision of ethical competent retired educators in the community.
We hope to tap into the cultural practice of grandparents babysitting younger ones in order
to re-orient the youths in towns in the hinterlands nationwide, into channeling their energy
positively and shunning gang activities.
These youths will assist struggling indigent teens
to succeed academically too. Traditional ethics of communal help in the culture demands that
villagers help each other in projects such as building their houses or weeding their farms.
This project seeks to harness the traditional ethics of communal help to tackle the dearth
of reading materials and the lack of interest in reading exhibited by today’s youths in the
villages. Youths need external means of developing their curiosity and imagination. Youths
in the hinterlands lack this means. These youths are energetic. They are hit by lack of
books. They need to broaden the scope of their understanding and aspiration beyond their
immediate vicinity. They need to build their self-esteem, to feel that they are helping to
save the world.
Their zeal which has not been tapped into is constantly negated by their
attraction to gang activities as an avenue for expending their excess energy. A strong
motivation behind this project is the bold idea that once these youths are given the mission
to make the world around them a better place, they are capable of coming up with the vision
to realize and even expand that mission. Also, the retired people in the village who most
often feel irrelevant will have the avenue for continuing to pass on their wisdom. It is
common knowledge that children often rebel from parents. However, a great bond exists
between children and grandparents. This bond will ensure the success of this type of project
that marries the two generations and put them into action.
Everybody is allowed to use the facility; however, in order to maintain the integrity of the programme, we need to stress the fact that the satellite centre will be run by girls. Also, we need to stress that the centre must engage fully with the main Inwelle Centre in attending symposium, computer training, workshops, and seminars. We will require quarterly report from the centre with pictures of educational activities, record of the traffic to the library. On our own part, we will start the centre with one thousand (1000) books, two computers, and a camera to record their activities and train the girls that will run the centre at a boot camp to be held in August 2013. . We will also provide the centre with the requisite training for running the library. From time to time, as we gather resources, we will allocate some of these resources to the satellite centre
Community involvement leading to sustainability and self-sufficiency
Outline of programme of Activities that reflect Inwelle Centre vision and mission
Commitment to sending annual report to Inwelle Centre, not later than February of the following year after a programme year
Providing a room equipped with shelves and access to the internet
Sending two or three youths to be trained at Inwelle Centre to learn how to run the satellite centre Commitment to paying stipends to the youths who run the centre.
We hold a symposium in December (last Thursday before Christmas usually) to close the project year. Partnering communities are expected to bring all the youths trained in the year to attend this symposium as the youths receive certificates during this symposium. Also, we will appreciate if a resource can come from each community to deliver a paper at the symposium. For 2013, our symposium topic is