Nkechinyere Melva Uguru

Founding Executive Director, Kachem Young Initiative, & A legal practitioner leveraging Transformative Education for Community Development and Social Change.

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

Part of what we do at KACHEM YOUNG INITIATIVE is help youths across rural communities, often school drop outs or of a minority group, believe in themselves enough to dare to reach their full potentials against their odds.

It’s a thread …

[Kachemyounginitiative(KYI) @Kachemyoungini1]

🚀 BIG NEWS!

The journey doesn't end with secondary school, it grows.

Through KYI's Light 💡 Up Initiative, EnLight 1.0 is raising secondary school innovators who solve community challenges using STEM.

Now we're launching #EnLight2_0 Incubator Hub in partnership with...

[Kachemyounginitiative(KYI) @Kachemyoungini1]

@EbonyiLaureates and NAESS to help university students excel academically, access scholarships, publish research, develop leadership skills, and prepare for impactful careers.

@ONEYOUTHGLOBAL_ #SparkNation

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

@dammiedammie35 @officialABAT, can you clarify why this administration thinks the Southeast shouldn't have a Passport production site? EBONYI’s was officially closed, then Enugu, and recently all SE shifted to Abuja. Why is that? @PeterObi @alexottiofr

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

@ChidiOdinkalu @Sen_Onyekachi @NatashaAkpoti @obyezeks @DaveUmahi @OfficialAPCNg You can only give what you have, if all you have is embarrassment then that’s what you’ll continue to give🤷🏾‍♀️

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

@CHIOma91198692 @ChidiOdinkalu @Sen_Onyekachi @NatashaAkpoti @obyezeks @DaveUmahi @OfficialAPCNg Walahi

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

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[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

@zikohercules @MelvaUguru @Kachemyoungini1 I wrote a thread sometime ago, it was inspired by a friend whose work is empowering young women in rural communities with life skills.
Everyone has the right to dream and chase their dreams and it's okay to have complex and "unpopular" ambitions.
https://t.co/ttL8HKtCPt

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

@zikohercules I hope more Nigerians begin to understand people with complex ambitions and respect their choices. Not everyone is going to get fulfilled by "japa" and not everyone just wants money.
There are people whose dreams transcend these and these dreams are rooted in home & that's okay.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

@zikohercules Everytime I call my friend @MelvaUguru she is in one rural community or the other doing amazing projects with her org @Kachemyoungini1
BarristerMelva is a brilliant lawyer (a genius if I may add) and a Mandela Washington Fellowship alumnus.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

@zikohercules @MelvaUguru @Kachemyoungini1 @MelvaUguru has a profile that makes leaving easy.
However I hope more people understand that japa is not the universal ambition of young Nigerians, many people have more complex ambitions and should not be scolded for it.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

@zikohercules @MelvaUguru @Kachemyoungini1 I am eternally grateful for these people with complex ambitions. I have seen the incredible impact that @MelvaUguru makes with @Kachemyoungini1.
I have followed your work at Zedora and I understand what it means for a state like ours (Ebonyi) and our posterity.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

For this course, you stayed home.
Your clothes drenched with sweat, your hands calloused, your shoes worn out; foot soldiers in all sectors, education, health, energy etc.
Thank you.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

I read a lot of essays on the internet that seem to forget that not everyone is online, and not every problem can be solved remotely.
Today, I want to say thank you to all foot soldiers, doing the heavy lifting.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

It holds true for education. We can write motivational speeches from day to night and acquire fancy degrees about human development, but we need the foot soldiers to reach the children with no internet access and teach the children with no computers

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

we can hold fancy seminars in international board rooms, but if there are no health workers on ground to care for the patients, our efforts would be futile.
We cannot fix primary care without having workers on ground.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

Let me liken education to healthcare.
In fixing healthcare in Nigeria, we need foot soldiers, we need people on the ground.
We can all get fancy degrees in world class universities,

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

I asked where lived, and she noted she lived within her rural community. I took my time to commend her efforts.
People like her are extremely important to building the future because they are on ground, doing the work directly.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

I told her about @LaureatesSIE and our work in Ebonyi.
I also told her about @DataCamp donates, @Microsoft for non profits, @TechSoup and other offers that can benefit her organization.

[Queen Alu (Enya AkpuruenyaChukwu) @EnyaChukwu]

On the foot soldiers.

I had an enriching conversation with a young woman not too long ago. Her organization mentors girls in a rural area within Ebonyi State, and empowers them with skills

[Nkechinyere Melva Uguru @MelvaUguru]

@EnyaChukwu @zikohercules @Kachemyoungini1 Thank you Doctor Ugo, you are such an amazing person and continuing to work with you has taught me so much about Ebonyi elites, and to push through, even their walls and achieve the change we seek. Your passion for our youths is admirable. Thanks you nwanne m❤️