COFP Newsletter (Summer Update)
Director’s Word
Coming this far into the year despite the not so rosy path we’ve had to patiently tread is for us as an organization, something we cannot afford to take for granted. We’re grateful to God, to the members of our team at the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace and to every single individual and/or body that has contributed to funding our diverse projects or supported us in kind. Our journey into the first half of the year wouldn’t be this beautiful without your support. Come with us as we walk you through the beautiful tales of our accomplishments in this first half of the year.
Election Monitoring Training Workshop for COFP Observers
Following the accreditation of the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Foundation organized a training workshop with the sole purpose of equipping about 100 Fellows of the COFP Fellowship program with basic knowledge and tools needed to aid them… Read more »
COFP Fellows: Translating Dialogue into Concrete Actions
The COFP Fellowship program is usually completed in the space of one year, with lessons collapsed into 3 modules; the first module in July, the second in November
and the third in April! As such, the second in November and the third in April! As such, participants (Fellows) are always given seed grants by the Foundation following the completion of the second module of the program… read more »
2023 General Elections as Observed by the COFP Foundation
Earlier in the year, the COFP Foundation got the privilege of being accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe and monitor Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. The first of the exercise was the Presidential and National
Assembly elections which took place on Saturday, 25th February 2023. The second and final lap was the Gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections which held on Saturday 18th March, 2023. The COFP carried out this major assignment of monitoring the 2023 general elections, keeping its major goals in the… read more »
COFP Education Scholarship Program for Indigent Children
Despite the fact that education from primary up to the junior secondary level should be free according to the Child’s Right Act of 2003, children are nonetheless required to pay various fees, some of which
they are unable to pay. As such, in the first half of this year, the COFP Foundation has been able to provide financial assistance to some children who were unable to pay their fees in order to protect the rights of these indigent children to… read more »
Celebrating 5th Anniversary of COFP Fellowship Program
After the painstaking effort ploughed into Modules 1and 2 by the 2022 / 2023 set of the COFP Fellowship program as well as the execution of a community peace project initiated by each one of the Fellows, they all had the honour of getting to the final and concluding phase of the Fellowship – Module 3! This was a week-long… read more »
CANEP Induction & Annual General Meeting
Sustainability is one sure way of measuring how successful a project is. It is with this mindset that the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for which Peace, set up a Pan-Africa Peace Hub as part
of its strategy for sustaining the impact of the Fellowship program long after the graduation of the COFP Fellowship program students (Peace Fellows). This group known as the COFP Africa Network of Peacebuilders (CANEP) cuts across people from different countries of the African continent like Nigeria, Ghana… read more »