JOMUROTA Community Care Initiative is a non-profit Community Based Organization duly registered with Corporate Affairs Commission and Gwagwalada Area Council with Registration No CAC/IT/No 27638 and 4875 respectively. Our Statement of Purpose is to primarily promote and advance networking and partnership with other bodies in the prevention of malaria, malnutrition, HIV and AIDS, empowered women economically and Vaccine preventable diseases amongst the vulnerable populations in the community in order to achieve and live a better life.
The organization is designed to help actualize the dreams of the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and those people living with HIV and AIDS. Our pursuit is to add value to the lives of this dejected people by helping the emergence of the Hero in them by providing them with life’s basic necessity.
We are built to seeing to the need of all and sundry, disregarding their religion, age, sex and tribe, that is, no sentiment or barrier. We intend to offer them a better life with a sure future, cause them to think and to play a vital role in the society.
JOMUROTA Community Care Initiative has Seven (11) key staff with over 100 Paid and Voluntary Community volunteers.
JCCI also has a 7 member board of Trustees With Professor Rhoda Mundi as the board Chairperson, Mr. Stephen Babajide Olutayo as the secretary, Mrs. Grace Leo as the Treasurer, Mr. John Shanwa, Mrs. Talatu J. Shanwa, and Mr. Audu
Our mission is to improve the health systems, livelihood practice by working with women, youth and children who often are the vulnerable groups in the community through skills development training, micro-enterprises and micro credit, scholarship for the vulnerable children, care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS and people affected with AIDS, to ensure that the vulnerable are involved in the development process that concerns them.
Our vision is to see a healthy and self-reliant Africa. We believe that life can never be bought with money and that since life is worth living every one of us should join hand and make life worth living by reaching out to the needy and less privileged in the society.
The word JOMUROTA is an ACRONYM derived from names of four close friends and relatives of Mrs Talatu Shanwa the founder of the CBO. The four friends according to the founder supported her dream when she sold the idea of her dream to stand for the vulnerable population. Below is the breakdown of the acronym:
JO for John
MU for Late Prof. Mundi
RO for Prof. Rhoda Mundi
TA for Mrs. Talatu John (the initiator of the dream)
Mrs. Talatu John Shanwa is a mother-to-all, philanthropist, and a passionate community/social worker; she grew up in a rural setting where access to basic life amenities such as safe drinking water, lack of education and health facilities etc. was a major challenge. With such difficult life experience, Talatu John Shanwa was so lucky and fortunate to attend the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCCN) to learn a copy-typewriter under the secretary of the college.
Thereafter, she began voluntary services for humanity aimed at empowering the rural women and girls with basic skills for “art and craft” such as bags making, knitting and beads making etc. in the same vein, Mrs. Talatu J. Shanwa also teaches and do more of sensitization on the importance of environmental hygiene, personal hygiene and also capacity building on backyard gardening practices in order to produce cheap and healthy food for their consumption and to also improved their means of livelihoods.
Mrs. Talatu J. Shanwa derived joy and satisfaction to helping the most vulnerable populations in Northern Nigeria. In her efforts to ensure improvement and lasting impact in the lives of underserved communities, she came in contact with an organization called Strengthening Nigeria Response to HIV/AIDs (SNR) and she was privileged to serve as a voluntary “community driver of change” on social and behavioral change communication.
Similarly, Mrs. Talatu J. Shanwa shared her dream for service to humanity with a close family friend specifically about “Community Development” and it was a welcomed and cherished by the members which it later gave birth to the establishment of the organization named JOMUROTA Community Care Initiative (JCCI). They began a holistic and voluntary community services to improve the standard of living in various vulnerable communities.
Talatu’s little act of kindness drives JOMUROTA Community Care Initiative today serving and supporting hundreds of communities and thousands of vulnerable households in the following thematic areas: Education support, Healthcare support, Economic empowerment, psychosocial support, Gender equality, menstrual hygiene and Social protection.
HUMILITY: Means acknowledging what is good in others, learning from them and sincerely improving on what is not working.
RESPECT: JCCI Interprets respect as acknowledging community way of life, and as treating each other and members of the community the way one wishes to be treated.
GOOD ATTITUDE: JCCI Interprets good attitude as making Community Members feel welcome with a smile that shows that you are happy to see them, and pay full attention when speaking with each other.
TEAM WORK: JCCI Interprets team work to mean that every member is part of the Organizational decisions that concern them.
RESULT-ORIENTED: Means that every intervention that JCCI organizes is tied to a result that will meet the need(s) of the community.
ACCOUNTABILITY: JCCI interprets this value to mean the ability to deliver what is entrusted to it while paying attention to quality. The ability of all staff and volunteers to retire all funds given to them