Our Programs
Six thematic pillars driving sustainable community empowerment and child welfare across Northern Nigeria.
Campaign Against
Drugs Abuse
Our most impactful and far-reaching school-based advocacy initiative. The Campaign Against Drugs Abuse (CADA) reaches secondary school students across Northern Nigeria with interactive education sessions, peer learning workshops, and motivational advocacy designed to equip young people with the knowledge, critical thinking skills, and emotional resilience to refuse substance abuse.
Sessions include engaging presentations, role-play scenarios, Q&A discussions, and take-home materials. We partner with school management teams, teachers, and local community leaders to ensure program sustainability beyond our visits.
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Nutrition Education
Malnutrition remains a critical challenge in our target communities. ZCDCI delivers evidence-based nutrition awareness programs reaching mothers, caregivers, school children, and community health workers with practical knowledge about balanced diets, safe food preparation, breastfeeding, and child growth monitoring.
- 🥗 Community nutrition workshops and cooking demonstrations
- 👩👧 Mother-to-mother support groups on infant feeding
- 🏫 School nutrition education sessions and garden programs
- 📊 Growth monitoring and nutrition screening campaigns
- 🤝 Linkages to government supplementary feeding programs
Education & Empowerment
Access to quality education is a fundamental right that we fight to protect. Our education advocacy program works at multiple levels — engaging parents, teachers, community leaders, and policymakers — to champion school enrollment, reduce dropout rates, and improve learning outcomes for children across our communities.
- 📝 School enrollment and re-enrollment campaigns
- 📚 Distribution of educational materials to vulnerable learners
- 🎓 Scholarships and learning support for out-of-school children
- 👨🏫 Teacher capacity-building workshops
- 🏛️ Advocacy with local education authorities
Livelihood Support
Poverty is both a cause and consequence of the challenges our communities face. Our livelihood program equips vulnerable households — especially women and youth — with vocational skills, business development training, and access to economic resources that enable sustainable income generation.
- 🧵 Vocational skills training (tailoring, crafts, agriculture)
- 💰 Micro-enterprise development and business coaching
- 👩🌾 Women's economic empowerment groups
- 🏦 Linkages to micro-finance and savings schemes
- 🌱 Community farming and value-chain support
Health Programs
Good health is the foundation of a thriving community. Our health program bridges critical gaps in health knowledge and access by providing health education, hygiene and sanitation promotion, referral services, and community health campaigns targeting the most vulnerable populations — particularly mothers and children.
- 🏥 Community health education and awareness campaigns
- 🚿 WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) promotion
- 💉 Linkages to immunisation and reproductive health services
- 🤱 Maternal and newborn health education
- 🔬 First aid training for community volunteers
Guidance, Counseling & Protection
Every child has the right to grow up safe, respected, and free from harm. Our child protection program delivers safeguarding training to community members, schools, and caregivers; provides individual guidance and counseling services; and works to prevent and respond to child abuse, exploitation, early marriage, and other harmful practices.
- 🛡️ Child safeguarding training for schools and communities
- 📞 Referral pathways to statutory child protection services
- ⚖️ Legal awareness and rights education for children
- 🧑🤝🧑 Peer support and youth leadership development
- 🚨 Community-based reporting and response mechanisms
Partner With Us or Invite Us to Your Community
Do you want ZCDCI to run a program in your school or community? Are you an organisation interested in partnership? We'd love to hear from you.