The Dewdrop Foundation is an Abuja based Non - Governmental Organization (NGO) with the support of ASHOKA Innovators for the public ( a U.S based NGO promoting social Entrepreneurship round the world)

Dewdrop Foundation primary focus is to develop and implement customized sustainable life-long learnership programs for effective capacity building at grassroots levels, empowering women and youth to become small to medium scale entrepreneurs.Our priority is to bring education through skills acquisition and alternative education in the delivery of domestic and hospitality services. We also aim at mitigating the ills of domestic child servitude and internal child trafficking. This we intend to achieve through our empowerment training program currently running in Karu. Abuja FCT, where women and youth are being trained in areas such as Housekeeping/Home management, Chef/Stewarding, Child care, Environmental care, and Basic Customer Service.

At the end of the program, the participants should be able to offer professional service in these areas thereby replacing the children who are rendering the same services in slave like conditions all over Nigeria , starting from Abuja . These children can then regain their childhood as well as go to school because very many of them don't go to school.

We hope to bridge the gap between the educated and uneducated, skilled and unskilled, rich and wretched in the Nigerian society through our programs.

OBJECTIVES

1. To bring about poverty reduction/ eradication through skills acquisition and women/youth empowerment.
 
2. To reduce, if not totally eradicate Child Labour Servitude and internal child trafficking in Nigeria .
 
3. To provide an enabling environment where illiterate and semi-illiterate, skilled and unskilled women and youth can be trained to become professionals, so they can fend for themselves.
 
4. To promote sustainable development through capacity building at national and community levels, and enhance economic benefits through improved standards of service delivery.
 
5. To provide trained professionals and efficient service for stakeholders in the hospitality industry such as hotels, restaurants and event organizers.
 
6. To train about 250 people each year in skill development and acquisition in the area of domestic and hospitality and service delivery through our various programs.
 
7. To help women and youth secure jobs as trained professionals in their chosen career with regards to hospitality and service delivery .
 
8. To promote and participate in joint initiatives with other stakeholders in the public sectors/governmental agencies such as National Directorate of Employment (NDE), New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), National Poverty Eradication Program (NAPEP), Abuja Horticultural Society (AHS), Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in order to provide an enabling environment for significant poverty reduction and child labour eradication.

Our Team

Agatha Nnaji (Mrs.) is the founder and CEO of the Dewdrop Foundation which was founded in 2002. She has established herself firmly in the nonprofit world by her selfless service to humanity. Her earlier experience was with the airline industry for 7 years as a Marketing Officer, a Quality Control Officer, and later as the Senior Manager of International Relations in the Nigerian Airways Ltd .
Agatha Nnaji (nee Chukwueke), a seasoned hospitality and leisure specialist, served as Nigeria’s foremost female executive in the hospitality sector for several years. As a foundation member of the Sheraton Hotel Group in Nigeria, Agatha, for several years played the leading role in defining service delivery standards in the hospitality sector in Abuja, the Capital city of Nigeria in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos, and other major commercial cities in Nigeria. She is an accredited FORUM Inc, USA trainer, and Starwood Group Inc certified trainer in various sales and marketing courses, the Sheraton Hotels worldwide.

A member of the ITT Sheraton1995 Golden Team award winners for Africa/Middle- East division, Agatha has won several awards in Nigeria for her contributions to the development of the leisure and hospitality industry in Nigeria.
Agatha is currently the Executive Director in charge of Administration and Business Development for Geometric Power Limited, a pioneer Independent Power Plants (IPP) company based in Abuja, Nigeria. She is the founder and main sponsor of the award winning Abuja Horticultural Society (AHS) which pioneered several projects and campaigns for the protection of the environment and green areas in Abuja, capital of Nigeria. It also established several enlightenment programs with schools in the community.
She has won several awards for her contributions to the community, the environment, and the tourism industry in Nigeria, including the prestigious Martin Luther King Community Service Award from the US Embassy (USAID office) in 1996, The Nigerian Women’s Award (in Hospitality & Tourism) and the Nigerian Heart Care Foundation Award for Community service.
Agatha is married with three children.

Chinwe Okwuonu is the Programme Manager of Dewdrop Foundation. A lawyer by profession but enjoys social work. She has a burning desire to educate people on how to be the best they can be, especially to people at the lower rung of the society who are finding it difficult to grapple with the challenges of pursuing a worthy career. She believes very much in self development and making an impact in the social and development sectors.

She believes that working to empower semi-skilled and unskilled persons in the hospitality sector is one sure way of transforming the society and making people to live full responsible lives as citizens. Chinwe enjoys working with poverty alleviation institutions; encourages behaviour change through persuasive communication and teaching. She identifies with organizations that encourage women empowerment.

Oby Nwosu is presently the head of department of the professional childcare programme of Dewdrop Foundation. She is a trained Midwife and a professional Childcare Provider. She has a degree in Business Administration with many years experience. She loves hardwork and excellence.