OUR STRATEGY / PROGRAM
1. Provision of empowerment for women and youth through:
• Micro-finance schemes which promote savings tor organized small groups of the women, widows, petty-traders, peasant farmers, and others.
• Skills acquisition workshops at various locations. Provision of empowerment tor women and youth through:
• Adult Literacy Programmes help to develop the target group intellectually and otherwise, et cetera.
2. Combination of the human rights activities and the Prison Apostolate or Ministry through the provision of Legal Aid to persons awaiting trial, improving the general welfare and condition of the inmates, assisting Prisons Staff to locate relations of incarcerated inmates in order to take care of them, provision of useful advocacy towards prerogative of mercy, et cetera.
3. The use of civic education as a veritable instrument for mass participation and mobilization in governance.
4. Peace building and conflict resolution through the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques.
Our Mission, Vision &Values
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OUR MISSION
To promote the dignity of the human person for sustainable and holistic development and effective transformation of oppressive structures through FX1rticipatory empowerment approaches.
OUR VISION
The vision of the JDPCI is to create an egalitarian society of faith, Hope, and love (action) based on the Social Teachings of the Church.
OUR CORE VALUES
Justice, equity, love, human development, peace, transparency and accountability are our core values.
OUR OBJECTIVES
1. To restore the dignity and equity precepts of all human beings.
2. To promote a just, free, and fair society.
3. To develop an enlightened, empowered, and liberated society.
4 To promote good human values and attitudes of people in the society.
5. To build in the mind of people, the culture of peaceful management and resolution of conflicts.
6. To create opportunities for self-reliance and to reduce poverty.
7. To promote a healthy environment for people living with HIV/Aids, and other vulnerable persons.
8 To empower the youths and women.
g. To increase citizens participation in governance for effective development.
10. To build into the citizens the culture of peaceful management and resolution of conflicts.
11. To promote respect for human rights.
ABOUT US
Justice, Development, and Peace/Caritas Initiative (JDPCI) Abakaliki is the organ employed by the Catholic Church in Nigeria to implement her programmes for integral human development. It is an arm of the Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), which coordinates activities and programmes of the Catholic Church in Nigeria in respect of the society through organization of programmes for a holistic development of the human person. By networking with the Provincial Office, it steps down those activities to the grassroots of the Dioceses through participatory methods. It seeks to confront the daily challenges of the people and assist them through her various programmes to participate in making the world a better place.
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