Warri Women Enterprise Fund (WWEF)
The Warri Women Enterprise Fund (WWEF) works to create access to grants, business facilities and improved standards of living for local women traders and their families in the Warri Kingdom. The programme has created two strategic projects which have collectively impacted over 20 - 30 communities and over 5,300 women, youths and children.
Establish Her is a four-week training project on leadership, family, emotional intelligence and business/career. Successful participants get micro-grants for their businesses and are plugged into a robust entrepreneurship community which gives access to continuous upskilling to ensure their means of livelihood expand. Cohort 1 will held in March 2024 brought together 225 women and partnered with Colgate, Coca-Cola, Darling Hair and various mentors and non-state actors across the South-South region.
Wuwu Ore empowers and educates mothers on maternal and child health. It also provides access to high-quality healthcare services for mothers, newborns, and children, aiming to reduce infant mortality rates among the underserved and riverine communities of the Warri Kingdom. The project has contributed to the reduction of maternal and child mortality rates in these hard-to-reach locales of Delta State. Since its inception three years ago, Wuwu Ore (“Mother’s Love”) has successfully executed six major medical missions, directly benefiting over 5,000 individuals through various surgical and medical interventions and partnering with health-oriented organisations and medical personnel. The next edition of the project set to be held in August 2024 will be the biggest yet as its set to engage over 2,000 indigenes at a stretch.
Establish Her is a four-week training project on leadership, family, emotional intelligence and business/career. Successful participants get micro-grants for their businesses and are plugged into a robust entrepreneurship community which gives access to continuous upskilling to ensure their means of livelihood expand. Cohort 1 will held in March 2024 brought together 225 women and partnered with Colgate, Coca-Cola, Darling Hair and various mentors and non-state actors across the South-South region.
Wuwu Ore empowers and educates mothers on maternal and child health. It also provides access to high-quality healthcare services for mothers, newborns, and children, aiming to reduce infant mortality rates among the underserved and riverine communities of the Warri Kingdom. The project has contributed to the reduction of maternal and child mortality rates in these hard-to-reach locales of Delta State. Since its inception three years ago, Wuwu Ore (“Mother’s Love”) has successfully executed six major medical missions, directly benefiting over 5,000 individuals through various surgical and medical interventions and partnering with health-oriented organisations and medical personnel. The next edition of the project set to be held in August 2024 will be the biggest yet as its set to engage over 2,000 indigenes at a stretch.
Establish Her
Wuwu Ore
Royal Iwere Vocational Institute (RIVI)
The Royal Iwere Vocational Institute (RIVI) provides training and mentorship programmes to develop and empower women and young girls in entrepreneurial and life skills. The programme has partnered with key individuals and organisations to create bespoke courses (short and long-term) to impart technical skills and equip women aged 18 - 55 with skill acquisition and masterclasses in beauty and cosmetics, event management and decor styling and business management, over 400 women have benefitted and gotten certified from it
RIVI has also empowered women with SMEs in Warri Kingdom with the point of service machines to improve the modernisation of their trade and increase revenue. The programme has also gotten partnership proposals from non-state actors in the past 3 months from Junior Achievers, Nigeria , ALX Africa, Leap Africa, and WEMA Bank CSR, each offering to train a minimum of 1,000 youths especially young girls between the ages of 10 - 15years.
RIVI also has an agro-development project created for children aged 5 - 16 years, which has impacted over 20 communities in the past 2 years, it’s become a favourite. Olori’s Love Gardens, is a project that plants farms across underprivileged community primary and secondary schools of Warri Kingdom to teach them the vast benefits of agriculture in society, the value of teamwork, responsibility and self-leadership.
The Love Gardens project has been a catalyst for community development unifying rural leaders, children teachers and families. So far a total of 700 - 1,000 children have been engaged across 4 schools and has yielded multiple harvests, enabling a diversification in low-income houses, providing nutritious crops and vegetables ordinarily unattainable to rural families.
Crops include scotch bonnet pepper, okra, spinach, watermelon, carrots and cucumber. The most recent farm commissioned by Olori in May 2024, is the biggest yet and incorporates agro-forestry in our bid to expand the outcomes for the Love Gardens.
RIVI has also empowered women with SMEs in Warri Kingdom with the point of service machines to improve the modernisation of their trade and increase revenue. The programme has also gotten partnership proposals from non-state actors in the past 3 months from Junior Achievers, Nigeria , ALX Africa, Leap Africa, and WEMA Bank CSR, each offering to train a minimum of 1,000 youths especially young girls between the ages of 10 - 15years.
RIVI also has an agro-development project created for children aged 5 - 16 years, which has impacted over 20 communities in the past 2 years, it’s become a favourite. Olori’s Love Gardens, is a project that plants farms across underprivileged community primary and secondary schools of Warri Kingdom to teach them the vast benefits of agriculture in society, the value of teamwork, responsibility and self-leadership.
The Love Gardens project has been a catalyst for community development unifying rural leaders, children teachers and families. So far a total of 700 - 1,000 children have been engaged across 4 schools and has yielded multiple harvests, enabling a diversification in low-income houses, providing nutritious crops and vegetables ordinarily unattainable to rural families.
Crops include scotch bonnet pepper, okra, spinach, watermelon, carrots and cucumber. The most recent farm commissioned by Olori in May 2024, is the biggest yet and incorporates agro-forestry in our bid to expand the outcomes for the Love Gardens.
Love Garden Agricultural Hub
Primary School
Tertiary School
Community level
Tertiary School
Community level