Overview
This is an associated program of the FOUNDATION designed for youth living in slums (ghettos). These youth are mostly uneducated and unemployed. They engage in all forms of negative vices ranging from drug abuse, prostitution, armed robbery etc. thereby constituting themselves into social menace. A chat with a few of these ghetto youth reveal that there are a lot of raw talent in these ghettos and their current life styles is largely as a result of the neglect and extreme despondency. This project seeks to reach out to these youth, empower them by first reorienting them, then identifying the “ROUGH GEMS” for polishing and empowering economically.

PLUM THE RUM

Feeling depressed, he runs and stumbles beside a gutter
His dwelling place, his comfort zone with no water
Miserable and withdrawn from reality, well battered
Left to fall through life to the ground totally shattered

In the domain where human ego is squashed and lost
The vicinity where chaos prevails and drugs a must
Exposed they are to moral degradation and social vices
Pinned perpetually to a point encompassed by crises

How can these ones survive the terror of the swerving tide?
How can these ones live life to the full when they have no pride?
How can these ones get the chance to express their skilfulness?
How can these ones be lifted from this state of helplessness?

We stand able to cause an effectual change in the right direction
To locate these rough gems and to polish them to total radiation
To emancipate and to empower through standard rehabilitation
To plum the rum, a project of the Xn FOUNDATION

PROJECT CONTENT, OBJECTIVES AND ANTICIPATED RESULTS
PROJECT CONTENT
1) Rehabilitation schemes
2) Sustainable Financial empowerment schemes through retails marketing initiatives
3) “Plum de Rum” club with members branded as “RUM GEMS”
4) “Go to school” program for children/teenagers

OBJECTIVES
Identifying the hopeless ghetto youth and children for rehabilitation and sustainable financial empowerment to give them a sense of belonging.

ANTICIPATED RESULTS:
A reduction in social vices and crime committed by especially “circumstantial” area boys, destitute.

“ PLUM de RUM” CLUB
Club will be local government based.
Selection of participant will be arbitrary but not discriminatory. Selection could be by recommendation or direct pick up from the streets.
After selection, they will be interviewed to ascertain their background, the cause of the predicament, their aspirations and challenges.
The will then be registered as members of the club. They will be issued ID cards, club T-shirts and other insignias.
Once registered as members of the club they will be known as GEMS.
Schedule for Club meetings will be decided depending on convenience however, 1 or 2 staff member will always be in the club office to attend to them because they will expected to report to the office at least every day for follow up except on special exemption.
Every member of the club will be put through skill acquisition training.

REHABILITATION SCHEMES.
The members of the clubs will undergo special rehabilitation program depending on their state. Special drug cases will be taken to DRUG REHAB centres until we develop a capacity to handle such extreme cases. Those with forms of insanities will be taken to the psychiatric hospitals.

SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES
Members of the club will be given jobs or empowered to be self employed through a micro-credit scheme. The members will compulsorily remit a certain amount of money to the office every day for those with daily income, weekly for those with weekly salaries and monthly for those with monthly salaries. A part of the money remitted will be taken as loan repayment for those who collected loans and the rest will be kept as their own special savings.
Bank accounts (savings) will be opened for all of them where their monies will be deposited as they are received. Money from this special savings will also be used for important insurance policies e.g NHIS and other relevant INSURANCE policies etc.
The special savings may also be used for other forms of investment on behalf of the member (with their consent after due enlightenment). Investments such as buying shares etc.
In other for proper and transparent money management, the beneficiaries will have a record of all the transactions carried out on their behalf and this will be updated every time a transaction is conducted.

-Securing jobs for members. Jobs ranging from “town beautifiers”, corporate cleaners
and messengers etc.

-through retails marketing and sales initiatives, okada riding etc.
“ GO TO SCHOOL” PROGRAM
Members of the club who are suitable and want to go to school will be sent to school.
- Children will be assisted to benefit from the UBE program.
- For teenagers and adults who want to go to secondary and tertiary institution
respectively will be assisted to get funding(Scholarship) for school.