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OCI FOUNDATION HONOURS NYSC INVITATION FOR ITS CDS WORKSHOP

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By Sonnie Nwosu  For the 2024 edition of the National Youth Service Corps, Community Development Service (CDS)  stakeholders Workshop, OCI Foundation on Invitation participated in the yearly event, held on 3rd October at the National Secretariat of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) in Asokoro, Abuja. The workshop, titled "Building Strategic Partnership for Impactful Community Development" is an annual formal engagement programme between the NYSC and its key partners that allows the  sustenance of collaborations and strengthening of CDS activities for the over all development of communities in Nigeria. The OCI Foundation is a registered partner with the NYSC, one of Africa's largest youth organisations  that enables Nigerian fresh graduates to undergo a compulsory one year service to the country. The OCI Foundation’s delegation to the event was led by Dr. Abdullahi Alliyu Rufai, the organisation's Networking Manager and pe

OCI Foundation UK Shines At The Zenith Global Health's 2024 Summit

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By Sonnie Nwosu  I commemoration of its one year of coming into existence in the United Kingdom, the OCI Foundation brings its activities into Europe, the third continent they operate after successfully working in Africa and Asia-Pacific. The Foundation was founded by a Nigerian Australia based Associate professor of family medicine, alumnus of the University of Liverpool in the UK and Harvard Medical School in the USA, whose acronym, Onyebuchi Chris Ifediora forms the name of the Foundation some years ago. The OCI Foundation’s registration which was granted by the Charity Commission for England and Wales a year ago marked its first step on British soil and solidified the quest to expand the long term dream to promote and advance health, education, public and social welfare among the under-served and underprivileged populations around the globe. In a speech delivered by Michelle Akwara who represented Prof. Chris Ifediora on September 27th,  2024 at the Summit held at the Leonardo Roya