About Afon Volunteers Initiative (AVI)

Afon Volunteers Initiative (AVI) established in January 2016. The initiative has progressed into a constituted group with over ten (10) young people as members.  Afon Volunteers Initiative is a community based organization that focused on improving Education, Livelihood and building young people capability in Afon community, Asa Local Government and Kwara State at large.

Few days after its inception, the initiative received recognition from the community leaders.

Since its inception the initiative have developed projects to tackle illiterate and lack of knowledge in information communication technology (ICT) faced by many young people in Afon community and her neighborhood villages by organizing free ICT training for secondary school students in partnership with Female Leadership Development(FLDinAfrica), the platform was also use to enlighten the participants on the importance of education.

Afon Volunteers Initiative was established with the aim of responding to the community problems and finding a sustainable solution to them. However, all the passionate return volunteers of Voluntary Service Oversea (VSO)  in Afon community work with AVI and these young people become the first member of the initiative which has since then developed into Afon Volunteers Initiative led by all the team members as we considered (Everyone) as a leader and initiated by Adam Abdulraheem.

The initiative has minimum age for its membership which is 18 to 25 giving a clear message that engaging young people is a key priority for the organisation and that young person’s views are encouraged and respected. The age rage gave the young people the same rights as fully-grown to kick-start projects to further develop their existing environment and allow young persons to take a lead in community development work.

Current projects, AVI is set to organize a workshop to educate the community women on health issues that might be jeopardizing their lives and to also create more awareness about the existence of the organization in the community. Also AVI is planning to embark on a project to educate the community occupants about the importance of education and how education can be used to eradicate poverty and under civilized out of Afon community.