Kpadna Report (1)

LET'S CLEAN KPADNA VILLAGE PROJECT COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Central Area Team, NSUK DEVCOM, 2021 | SUPERVISED BY Professor E.S. Dandaura

CONTENTS A ENTERING THE COMMUNITY - 02 B COMMUNITY DIALOGUE AND SANITATION EDUCATION - 07 C IMPLEMENTING PROJECT LET'S CLEAN KPADNA - 09 D IMPACT/SUCCESS STORIES OF THE PROJECT HIGHLIGHT - 15 E IMPACT REVIEW BY THE NUMBERS - 19 F FINANCIALS - 20 G PARTNERSHIPS HARNESSED - 21 CHALLENGES - 22 AND CONCLUSION - 23

COMMUNITY EXECUTED ON OMReGssAaNgeI fZroI mN Gthe OWE NrOgVRaInLRiDzOinNgMTEeNaTm DAY - JUNE 5 This report looks at the phases of development of a participatory organizing. It highlights our community work on keeping Kpadna Village clean as dirty environment has been reported to have serious health implications on a community especially in an era of disease out-break. It also communicates our campaigning effort and interaction with the community members, the impact recorded both by numbers, infographics and through photos and success stories, and all the creativity applied to making the project a reality.

Message from the Organizing Team June 5, 2021 | Kpana Village, Jabi, FCT Our message is simple and in the famous quote attributed to Henry Ford, who was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company. It reads: “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” We believe this sums up our experience in the project as much as it remains relevant for future community organizing effort. Thank you

ORGANIZING OOrUgaRniDziEnTgATI eLaSm T MH eEssTagEeAfMrom the Group Central Area (JABI) is group of 9 Development Communication students at the Institute of Development Communication, Nasarawa State University in Keffi, Nasarawa state, who embarked on ‘Keeping Kpadna Clean’ with the aim of meeting two targets at once; to raise awareness on the need for wellbeing and environmental sanitation while executing a Community Organising field work as part of DevCom first semester examination.   Rukayat Aliyu Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka Olafunke Grace Ola Field Engagement & Administrative Lead Strategic Lead & Creative Communications Photographer 0619511007535 MA20200036 MA202000189 Mary Echewofun Ikanyi Daniel Kwada J Effiong Stella Bassey Impact Evaluation Analyst Community Youths Advocacy Coordinator Health Talk & Capacity Building Officer 0619511010046 MA202000079 Adedoyin Ojosipe Uzorigwe Juliet Ogonnaya Hajara Mohammed Kolo Community Reporter Finance and Fundraising Expert Procurement Officer MA202000076 MA DeVCom 0619511011794 NSUK2019/ 11242

KPADNA A ghetto in Abuja's city center Kpadna village is a small indigenous settlement of land squatters located about a kilometre from the popular Jabi Motor-park in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT). An enclave removed from the high brow estates and plazas around it; Jabi Lake mall (Shoprite), NCDC, Eden Garden, Chida and Sandralia hotels are some key landmarks to spot within. Also, the community is occasionally demolished due to the sustained effort by authorities to get rid of slums within central areas and upon the constant debate of relocating indigenes. Kpadna however in the last 15 to 20 years grew from that the small farmstead into a village, slum and ultimately a commercial center with nearly nearly 50 stalls serving even the mansion dwellers who shop daily for food, provisions, drinks and even kitchen utensils. There are also barber shops, Tea huts and even hawkers. Fruit shop: commercial ctivities consitite a major routine in Kpadna COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 01

A ENTERING THE COMMUNITY Entering Kpadna from one of its Salleh, a painter by occupation, showing the organizing team the way around gates, a man in his white kaftan approached the representing members of the organizing team. He had recognized that we didn't live in the community and might need help. So he asked what we wanted and then volunteered to take us to Loco, the Chief's younger brother who will now lead us to the Chief. What we achieve first on accessing the community was (1) identifying the issues, (2) meeting the chief and (3) Planning/Mapping our intervention. 1. The Issue A boy scavenging the heap of dirt in Kpadna. On the first day of entry into Kpadna village, what was easily noticed was the huge mass of refuse carelessly dumped at it's main barb-wired entrance. Along with other littered sites, the organizing team began forming notes having identified one key challenge likely faced by the community. This was corroborated by Salleh who claims he is tired of seeing dirt around. We held a few other informal conversations (thanks to freedom of association and expression) on the sanitation culture of the community. All these - coupled with the buildings in the community being below-standard, juxtaposed and almost caving into each other, not allowing for healthy breathing gaps as mini gutters flow from unexpected angles indicating the absence of drainages - provided more insight into planning an intervention for the community. While this marked the beginning of our community assessment at informal level, it also represented a rich guide which prepared us for an advocacy visit to the Chief's Palace. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 02

Informal dialogues and interviews with random community members such as garbage collectors, shop owners, and elderly women sitting in front of their homes enabled the easy identification of the poor sanitation issue in Kpadna. It also helped us in the organizing team to begin shaping our intervention using such primary data. Dirt in the gutters Engaging a garbage collector; he goes round Kpanda every morning to collect dirts from shop owners among other unused valuables. Meeting Baba Musa Usman sweeping the front of Meeting Mama Aisha who tells us she occasionally his shop inspired us. He claimed this is a usual activity for him. mobilizes women groups to clean Kpadna. So, he became a potential driver for our intervention. Along with questions asked during community assessment as well as a later internet research, we noted that environments around dump sites are exposed to significant health dangers leading to widespread of germs and diseases, which in turn contributes to low life expectancy; especially where the inhabitants of the community do not have the wherewithal for quality healthcare services. We equally identified that when solid wastes are indiscriminately disposed it could result to water contamination and blockage of water ways or drainages, soil and air pollution, communicable and non-communicable diseases in most areas of the country. We would not leave Kpadna without intervening by organizing the community to solve this pressing issue, which might have been the reason it is an easy target for demolition exercise. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 03

2. An advocacy visit to the Chief of Kpadna It took several attempts to meet with the chief, but we were able to get through his brother and wife who helped us. Then we introduced our intended purpose for the community as students of ISDEVCOM, Nasarawa State University. The Chief liked the idea and made reference to some development projects he had witnessed in other communities nearby such as Gwarimpa and Utako. The advocacy meeting with the chief Some members of the Organizing team pose for a selfie in the Chief's compound ended on a note of appreciation and in his promise that he would reach out to Kpana council of elders, and his secretary among other gatekeepers and stakeholders for their approval to have us formally implement our ideas. He also pointed to the fact that Kpadna needs to be clean and that both indigenes and non-indigenes would be notified by the community's town crier to always clean the fronts of their homes and shops. 3. Securing a buy-in The Chief then linked us up with his secretary and two other members to support the implementation of the project as well to teach them more about waste disposal. The buy-in is highlighted by giving a name for the project: \"Let's Clean Kpana Village\" After the buy-in meeting, the chief, his secretary, a council member and representatives of the organizing team. Kpadna Chief, Mr. Dantani got back to the organizing team about the community's stance on our project. In his words: \"The council of elders like it, the youths want it and I believe this Luco, the chief's younger brother facilitated the buy-in. will bring about behaviour change in my community.\" He was so happy about the project's approval COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 04

4. Planning the Intervention The buy-in motivated us as we agreed on a common problem, so we sought a solution with a lot of thoughts going into how we were going to carry out the \"Let's Clean Kpadna Village\" Project. We would explore the community dialogue approach to encourage participation in dynamics of behaviour change towards refuse disposal. After proper consultations with community members appointed by the chief to support the project, we prepared and designed a creative brief and a plan of action detailing: a. A glance of Kpana which include: History and location of the village Common activities Silhouetting and community assessment Sanitation culture b. Key objectives which include: Raise awareness on the importance of sanitation and enable Kpana become more aware of the identified situation of their environment, realize their collective abilities and responsibility to manage themselves and their environment in a sustainable manner (Intent). Provide opportunity for inclusive participation through community mobilizers by core identified drivers of social change (Approach). Motivate community-led action to clean the community (Intervention). To inspire behaviour change/create elements of sustainability (Intervention). c. Community Dialogue Package, which include: Interviews Dialogue Session with core-group mobilizers Contents for lecture (talk) on sanitation Compelling stories Feedback d. Strategic Action ( (series of activities, and planned resources) which include 05 Recruitment of core group drivers (Field implementers) Training on environmental sanitation for the core group Printing of t-shirts, fliers and stickers, painting of wall Purchase of trash bags and basket, big trash container, sanitizer, face masks, gloves, shovels, rakes, and brooms. Community sensitization Fundraising Report and Media Documentation. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

e. Key Messages on awareness and sustaining new behaviour in sanitation, which include: Kpadna is in the heart of town; Keep it clean. Let's Clean Kpadna, always! Keep Kpadna Clean. Keeping Kpadna Clean is to keep Mosquitos Away. Together, we can make Kpadna habitable. Health is wealth. Build A Kpadna that cares about sanitation and will be consistent at it. Always come together to do things. Kindly correct people when they don't dispose waste properly. Volunteer for causes that will help develop or keep your community safe. Be open to good ideas. Clean your doorsteps everyday. A clean environment can mean clean air. A clean environment is safe for everyone. Some materials developed pre-intervention Interview pack Creative Brief Project Plan Flyer Stickers T-shirt COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 06

B COMMU NIT Y DIALOGUE AND SANITA TIO N EDUCATION 1. Community Dialogue It is imperative to know that although two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and 6 focuses on well-being, both SDGs are interwoven. This project therefore focused on sanitation as means to ensuring lasting health and wellbeing. This was the basis for engaging the core group mobilizers in Kpadna community during a formal dialogue. The Community Dialogue (FGDs) sessions A Community Dialogue (CD) in play, facilitated by Rukaiya Aliyu provided an opportunity for Core Group community members consisting of different group of stakeholders to express themselves to the issue of sanitation in their community. Secretary to the Chief of Kpadna village speaking on ways Briefing and running through the implementation he thinks the organizing team can implement \"Let's Clean Kpadna Village\" plan with core group mobilizers. While they all shared their opinions, thoughts and sentiments on sanitation culture, some key points were raised. There is a sentiment among dwellers that Kpadna village is only temporary settlement due to its demolition history. That said, dwellers care less about taking care of it, like making it their \"home\", clean and habitable. People are practically living on loose ends. In total, 14 community members, shop owners, and key stakeholders (including Kpadna youth leader) attended the community dialogue which extended into an FGDs and 9 questions asked. The success of the community dialogue was based on good participation, representation, good timekeeping with positive feedback to the Let's Clean Kpadna Village Community Organizing project. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 07

2. Sanitation Education The above screenshot represents a section of a whole document created from research to provide education on waste disposal, cleanliness after the community dialogue. It was a 30 minutes long sanitation health talk by the organizing team, sensitizing the core group mobilizing members and identifying most engaged members willing to take the message into the community in line with the town crier. The sanitation talk also included 13 key messages laced with information that was dissemination in a participatory approach so as to ensure effectiveness in raising the level of community knowledge about important basic sanitation sanitation practices. Messages shared were also relevant to Kpadna sanitation problems and culture. The talk properly addressed the community's concerns and fears, and was built on the outcome of the community dialogue. It was also short and entertaining, delivered in a mixture of English, Pidgin and Hausa, and Gbayi. We also ensured we were friendly and respectful. Sanitation talk in Kpadna Village delivered by Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) model. 3. Mobilizing for Action The community dialogue and sanitation talk ended on a highly productive note. The participants liked it and in fact nominated two of the core group mobilizers who seemed to have engaged more and had full grasp of the knowledge about sanitation shared to sensitize the entire community on a forthcoming World Environment Day (June 7). The joy of this is based on development communication John and Yakubu volunteered to mobilizing the whole community concept to let people in communities solve their own problems by themselves. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 08

C IMPLEMENTING PROJECT LET'S CLEAN KPANA 1. Theory of Change Having provided education, planned with the core group community members, and also organizing them to take the message of the essence of sanitation into the community, our theory of change was based on the sanitation theory which highlights the importance of cleanliness, elimination of germs and provision of facilities to achieve it. Identifying the Produce and sanitation problem and disseminate knowledge and establish key about keeping a messages community clean Theory of Change Transfer knowledge and Implement advocacy, organize capacity of behaviour change by sensitizing members and community core group to mobilize for sanitation implement the project. 2. Community Sensitization According to Youthdoit.org, sensitization literally means making people ‘sensitive’ about an issue. The website referred to this as the core of awareness raising and this is what we achieved in Kpadna village where we had empowered Mr. Jacob with resource materials on sanitation and a microphone to speak to his fellow Kpadnadians about keeping the community clean. Along with him was the chief's wife among other community members who volunteer to go round the community with music blasting in the background. Flyers, facemasks, handgloves and trash bags, stickers, were distributed during the sensitization. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 .Jacob, one of the core group mobilizers gave his time and energy to the cause of keeping Kpadna clean. Beside him is the chief's wife volunteering. 09

Sensitization about sanitation in Kpadna proved effective in providing first-hand information to everyone in the community. Based on it, we simple wanted to improve knowledge; that is to correctly inform community members about the issue and also to change their attitudes towards it. Mr. Jacob thrived excellently in this as he continued to reiterate how their new attitude will have an impact on the public health status of Kpadna. The organizing team getting set and deliberating directions for sensitization and sanitation exercise. Mr. Kwada Daniel James, a community organizing team member sharing waste bags to a food seller in Kapdna. The Chief's wife giving her words of advice to the organizing team about the important places to speak within the community. Small plastic waste baskets bought to be donated to key community influencers Mr. Jacob testing the microphone having mastered the key messages of the intervention. Ms., Uzorige Juliet Ogonnaya having one meaningful conversation with a currently retailer about disposing her POS tellers properly. Mary Ikani of the organizing team inspiring the entire community with sounds and music of the day Mr. Dan engaging youths of the community 10 and telling them the value of waste bags COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

During the sensitization, one key activity that stood out and contributed to the success of the project is the dissemination of flyers and stickers to community members. As Mr. Jacob reached out with his voice - educating, entertaining and encouraging his kinspeople to embrace such positive change in behaviour, the organizing team supported other community members in distributing the materials which respectively read: \"Let's Clean Kpadna\" for flier and \"Keep Kpadna Clean\" for stickers, which were pasted on the doors of consenting shop owners. A sticker being handed to a trader after a brief talk. The Organizing Team in action Ensuring Stickers go round Doyin of the organizing team disseminating fliers and stickers Ensuring Stickers are enough to go round Community Organizer Convincing a laundry shop owner to get a sticker, which she gladly accepted. Community reception was 11 amazing as Audu, a meat seller offered strategic part of his wall to hold the sticker The fliers being distributed had been translated into Hausa and Gbayi and Pidgin COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

3. Sanitation: Proper wastebin disposal and clearing the massive heap of dirt According to Wikipedia, sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. By WHO, it is the process of keeping places free from dirt, infection, disease, etc., by removing waste, trash and garbage. The American CDC aptly describes basic sanitation as having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine), as well as having the ability to maintain hygienic conditions... Having establish the above information, that sanitation is crucial to the health and well-being of Kpadna village resident, we supervised the mobilization of the community youths by Luco, the Chief of Kpana's brother who also participated in the clearing of the massive heap of dirt lodge at the entrance. We provided rakes, shovels and other safety tools for this exercise. Luco shoveling away the eyesore that put a dent on Kpadna's image Luco had accepted the shovel in great faith Doing it themselves. Kpadna Youths in Action Mr. Jacob was COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 relentless in his role as a core group mobilizer. Beyond sensitizing the community, he was also around to direct the sanitation process. Handgloves and other safety items were prioritized for the waste clearing team. 12

4. Branding and Installation of Refuse Containers So we needed to be creative in the kind of refuse containers Kpadna deserved. The conventional metal container was way beyond expensive, and since we could not afford it, we went local with a used Geepee tank. We refurbished them and took them to the community for branding and installation. We engaged a youth painter (Chidex Arts) in Kpadna and encourage him to donate his gift as an artist. He did this on a token, painting the refuse containers and inscribing the title of the project as well as the donors. Tanks for sale in Nyanya. The team got two... Sonia Somuvie, a resident around Kpadna volunteers to add a little of colour Community Organizer Effiong Stella Bassey painting Community members painting Two members of the organizing team pose Community youths installing the refuse contaitaners 13 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

3. Wall Sustainability Painting One primary reason for branding some items donated to Kpadna Village was to ensure the key messages can be viewed by community members even after the project has ended. To extend the impact of this, our partnership with ROI Takeouts paid off with the management consenting to using the wall to communicate and sustain the essence of our project. Quote by Sam Veda was incorporated into the painting. It reads: One Who maintains Cleanliness Keeps Diseases Away. The artwork reflected Chidex Arts of Kpadna Village and his team creating the painting after approval by both the community heads and management of ROI Takeouts The artwork, though inspired by the project's essence, was conceptualized by Mr. Jeff, owner of ROI takes who believes that education is key to ensuring a Kpadna maintains a healthy lifestyle. The artwork therefore represents the future of Kpadna which means river in Gbayi Language. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 14

D IM PACT /SUCC ES S STOR I E S T OF THE PROJE CT HIGHL I G H 1. Community Awareness and participation Community organizing has somewhat been defined as a process by which identifies needsa community or objectives, takes action, and through this process, develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices within a community (Wikipedia). This definition sums the impact made on the community by the intervention in that Kpadna became aware of the issue of sanitation iPn rtohdeuccoemamnudnity following our entry. To further organize for commudniistsyecmhainnagtee, kanlloswtalkeedhgoelders were involved - from the chief to the grassroot. Iat bwoaustakpeaeprtiincgipaatory intervention which community clean helped developed new local leaders by engaging and empowering them to mobilizer others who in turn make the community a better place. The spectacular meaning around achieving success for our effort is in its assumed ownership of the project by members of the community. The artwork reflected The artwork reflected The artwork reflected 2. Empowering Community Members - The Windscreen boys The Windscreen Boys 15 Several roads meet in the place where Kpadna Village is situated. On one of these roads, some youths usually carry a sanitizing wiper and OMO water to wash cars often patiently sitting in traffic as the lights count down to green! These youths were community indigenes; wiping car windscreens and doing this mostly all day including during school hours. The organizing team thus - through core group members like Mr. Jacob - empowered them with tools to clear dirt while there was some form of remuneration at the end. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

3. A Clean Kpadna Identifying the Produce and sanitation problem and disseminate knowledge and establish key about keeping a messages community clean BEFORE AFTER 4. On a Note of Appreciation (Success Stories) Project \"Let's Clean Kpadna\" was a unique project to the entire community; well received, well- appreciated and grossly implemented. With the little resources, we were able to harness the magic of energizing residents and walking them in facilitation through the phrase: \"TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING. The testimony of the Chief's wife. She never believe such could happen with all the doubts around it and disappointments which she witnessed. \"In her own words The organizing team came to do good work, honestly. It has been long we saw something like this. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 16

\" We are very happy. The 17 organizing team coming here helped us a lot. Before you will stay in your house perceiving smell all over, but now as a cleaned everywhere, it feels safer. The entire village is happy. \"I live in Kpana Community. So they told me about cleaning the community, that today is World Sanitation Day. I want to thank you for coming to help us. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814

5. A more enlightened organizing team & understanding the course Members of the organizing team were inspired into the field by Professor E.S Dandaura to carry out a meaningful project that may not impact only the selected communities of implementation but the knowledge bank of his students. In this regard, alot of lessons were derived with the organizing team becoming more enlightened about community organizing. The entire process from planning to execution was worth the time and resources spent. There couldn't have been a better way to \"Community Organizing made understand the course than real practice. Producme eanudnderstood the actual disseminate rkenaoliwtielesdmgeost communities like about keKeppaindgnaaface. While it also communietxypcolesaend me to the hitches of working hand-in-hand with community members, I learned patience and dedication. - Rukaiya Aliyu Organizing team, the Chief's wife and secretary It takes collective effort of organizers and beneficiaries to Community organizing on world environment day. What successfully carry out a can be more inspiring for a suburban place - people project. coming together with skills and ideas and a commitment to keep it clean. - Uzorigwe Juliet Ogonnaya - Valentine Onyeka Ogunaka Act of kindness to humanity is Organizing Team and Members of the Community holding stickers a great motivator for me. Community organizing speaks a thousand words to this. - Effiong Stella Bassey Changing one person's attitude is good, but changing a whole community is empowering generations. - Mary Echewofun Ikanyi Impacting is nature and for me, this project was just another means to impact my word. - Olufunke Grace Ola COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 18

E IMPACT REVIEW BY THE NUMBERS ...in Kpadna 246 LET'S CLEAN People Reached Through fliers, informal dialogues, KPADNA stickers, community entry meetings. Educate Implement Resources 2 hours Community dialogue, Door-to-door collection of waste, Heap Rakes, shovels, face masks, sanitizer, 5 hours street-to-street sensitization of dirt clearing, painting and handgloves, Waste disposal containers, installation of GEEPEE containers paint, speakers, microphone, music 10 Wall painting for project's playlist sustainability Community core group 42 mobilizers trained 246 Shops visited during Fliers & Stickers sensitization distributed 20 120 Youths mobilized for community Trash containers provided (2 Geepee tanks, 3 baskets, 115 trash bags) clean up, painting KEEPING KPADNA CLEAN Conducted among 25 25 The Behaviour Change community members who 20 element in this project is participated in the Let's 15 10 getting community Clean Kpadna Project members to care about keeping their community Pre-intervention clean. 20 of the 25 Post-intervention 5 participants now care as opposed pre-intervention 0 when it was only 5. Participation in a cause Knowledge about Understanding sanitation I care about However, the intervention to better community World Environment Day as a way to good health sanitation in Kpadna (due to funding and lack of time) did not transform Kpadna completely as most of the areas are still dirty, but mindsets were changed through sensitization. A Clean and healthy Kpadna COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 19

F FINANCIALS TOTAL FUNDS Voluntary N130,000 22.8% Anonymous Donations Students Contribution 4.6% 59.4% Partnerships donation 9.1% COST MATERIAL BUDGET USED BREAKDOWN WALL PAINTING N35,000 2 GEEPEE TANK N53,000 N1,200 BROOM (6) N900 PACKERS (3) N2,400 BASKETS (3) N1,800 RAKES (3) N30,000 T-SHIRT AND STICKERS N20,000 VOLUNTEERS WELFARE N2,000 HAND SANITIZER N3,600 SHOVEL (2) N5,000 REPORT PRINTING N10,000 DESIGN DATA TOTAL | 164, 900 Naira .Jacob, one of the core group mobilizers gave his time and energy to the cause of 20 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | kDeepVingCKpa8dn1a4clean. Beside him is the chief's wife volunteering.

G PARTNERSHIPS HARNESSED Following the time we rolled out plan for the project, we realized that we needed funding or some sort of external support, and then we brainstormed on how to build a robust partnership with some businesses in the community. Aside some key donations from two top traders in Kpadna, Danfulani Yellow POS Shop and Usman Provisions, we secured the support of ROI Takeouts, a shawarma and grill store that donated the wall and part money for the painting and ECO-SMART Services, an environmental cleaning company which donated sanitation kits and physical volunteering. The organization team is proud about the value of collaboration extended to every aspect of our work as community organizers where by we got community members to purchase stickers, which in turn was used to cater for the welfare of volunteers. See featured funders below: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 21

KEY CHALLENGES One of the major challenges we experienced was the misconceptions of our personality as students, this reduced the level of compliance of the community members to our intervention ,they thought we are some sort of Non governmental organizations or some government agencies, so they wanted monetary assistance and also demanding for some big items. The community members are not really organized and the chief of community also did not make things easy for us, which lead to some sense of disunity in the community. Some of the community members also view us as certain elite that is coming to take advantage of them. Time frame, we had short period of time to carry out our community organizing However, some of the community members were quite supportive of the project by helping to mobilize other community members. Funding was also a key challenge, but we were able to raise money from within the organizing team, partners, and within volunteer community members. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 22

CONCLUSION The \"Let's Clean Kpana Village\" community organizing project is the first intervention of such kind in Kpana since about 8 years ago when the community through its town crier usually announces sanitation every Saturday. This was also long before the fear of demolition of suburban settlements in Abuja increased. The project was successful in a lot of ways, from proving that people can come together to make a change if properly mobilized to encouraging them to adopt positive behaviour on sanitation as this benefits the community sustainably. The project also portrayed the power of community dialogues around issues of great concern. With some meaningful outcome recorded and a grand potential for sustainability, it now advocates for further research into the everyday life and attitude of the people of Kpadna to appreciate health education while keeping their community clean. The project's experience reinforced in the commitment of two members of the organizing team to consider conducting their masters research project on Kpadna. Social behavioural change can lead to community improvement at all levels, which can have significant impact on the way slum areas can organize themselves for a more sustainable and healthy way of living. For Kpadna, the essence of the aforementioned statement was demonstrated through the tools like shovel, rake, waste baskets and packer received, as well as in the paintings among financial resources committed to implementing the project. Lastly, the organizing team of NSUK's DVC 814 of 2021 now have a thorough understanding of the course and we will go on to become professional community organizers in our various capacities and chosen interest. \"Let's Clean Kpadna\" project was also documented creatively in video format and will be uploaded to the internet after review and approval. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | DVC 814 23

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