Osasere Egbon

<h2>Birth Of Sept2Help</h2>Sept2Help is an unregistered project that was started by originally to bring together people born in September and reach out to those who need not-so-privileged in September. It started off with me and a few friends, born in September interested in the cause. We created a group on Whatsapp on the 22nd of August, 2018, to bring together people who are interested. Other friends who were interested but not born in September joined as well and the group currently holds 23 participants. ﻿👉﻿ <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/9luVmjk0c1I2G5XP1xNhiH" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sept2Houp Invite link.</a> <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmehwnjoQKmmZYyCfVSwXK1TWHCNgZmbzwrvN4s33eNM4J">See the Group Count &amp; Date of Creation in the Images above. <h2> </h2><h2>Sept2Help Journey &amp; Vision</h2>The vision now for Sept2Help is to connect people back to their humanity by reaching out other humans in need. Since Inception in 2018, we've visited an Orphanage home and an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp - This is a camp for people who have been displaced from their homes due to terrorism, insurgency and banditry. It's also now named Home For The Needy. While the visit to the orphanage in 2018 was good, there was no call to do more until we visited the IDP camp in 2019. It was a nostalgic experience. Here's a <a href="https://twitter.com/cDyDx/status/1178481583843610625?s=20&amp;t=pK4U_K53-frP39inByR63w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter thread</a> I made back in 2019 to describe the experience as well as solicit support for the people there. It wasn't a good sight. Here's a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eZRDw18z8aJP1orHvsISTWW_c0u5BgVf/view?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video compilation of pictures</a> back then in 2019. The food wasn't enough, their water system is epileptic. Educational and health infrastructures are nothing to write home about. As you can see if you take a lot at the video compilation above and the documentary which we made (Sharing shortly). I realized that visiting with meager foodstuffs and items wasn't going to do much for them - The population of the camp is about 3000 persons and to date, they still use about 15bags of rice per meal (say breakfast or lunch) not per day. I realized that we cannot feed a village, but we can help them stand to feed themselves. This is why I'm embarking on this particular project for this Home for the Needy in Uhogua, Edo State. <h2>Sept2Help Project 2022</h2>We've been making efforts to reach out from time to time with little amounts of foodstuffs and clothes, but each time we went there our hearts sank. Our efforts were almost negligible. So we decided to make a documentary to call for help to everyone who cares about humanity. Although we couldn't actualize the plan we had since last year because of some logistics issues, here's the documentary video we recorded in 2021.<div class="ql-video-wrapper"><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pm1gvLAHDqc?showinfo=0"></iframe></div> Considering that it's been a year since that video was made, I, on behalf of Sept2Help, went there to check out what their needs still are in 2022 and it remains Food and Educational Funding, in addition to the struggle with water supply. We believe water is a key element to life and with it comes growth. Hence, this is where Sept2Help would channel its efforts to this year. The water situation at the Home For The Needy, Uhogua, Edo state is not an admirable one. The population at the camp far exceeds the water storage capacity. One of the supervisors explained to us that the queue for water when its been pumped gets really long. And sometimes some kids have to carry over bathing to the following day because water gets exhausted before it's their turn to get some. To make matters worse, they currently do not have power supply from the national grid and they have to use an electric generator to make pump water. They'd like a like to have a solar powered pump to lessen their dependence on electric generators which costs them a lot of money fueling it considering that our economy is currently hyperinflationary. One litre of gasoline currently costs about N180 an average electric generator fuel tank is about 20L. The dollar exchange rate is about $1 to N705 and it's on the rise. We have a plan to salvage an old water system designed to be solar-powered but never functioned in order to reduce the cost. The goal is still a solar-powered water system. Here are images of the old water structure. <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmSoEYQ6pHweS3C3Mra9jsjUtiR4AtATYQJZ5Z9ajKgUB9"> We've had experts do the survey and possible solutions and we are looking to raise about $10,000. The project cost was estimated at about N6,000,000. We are currently working with another contractor to get a less expensive cost which he already estimates to be about N5,000,000. Here's an <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_dJqvML5ZReEj-wm6wL2b0FcE0djMynF/view?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official project cost documentation from the selected contractor</a>. In addition, we'd also like to solicit support for education funding for the kids who are in school. If we set up a sufficient water supply structure, then we can start thinking of how to boost their farming to help them cut down the cost of feeding. Please, let's make this a September to remember for the people at the IDP Camp, Uhogua, Edo State. Thanks!

BIRTH OF SEPT2HELP
Sept2Help is an unregistered project that was started by originally to bring
together people born in September and reach out to those who need
not-so-privileged in September. It started off with me and a few friends, born
in September interested in the cause. We created a group...