• Organizational Blueprint

• Aims And Objectives

• The Journey So Far

• What The Future Holds For DPAT

• Prospectus

Organizational Blueprint:

Established about 21 years ago, the D-Pat foundation is a non-governmental organization that is poised to alleviating the plight of a common man, training Girl Child, women and youth in acquiring vocational skill in relevant areas. D-Pat touches all Projects and Programmes of the Government, geared towards eradicating poverty and unemployment in Nigeria. It is a conglomeration of Programmes which include food programmes, shelter, employment, healthcare, education, gender development, Agro-allied Services, recreational services, etc. DPAT Foundation's motto is self reliance.

D-Pat is not only in collaboration with National Directorate of Employment (NDE); it id also working with the FCT Economic Empowerment Development Scheme (FEEDS).

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Aims And Objectives:

• To train women/girl child, youth in vocational skills as a key to National Development and alleviation of poverty.
• To promote qualitative and functional literacy to the Nigerian youths/Girl child.
• To encourage women or girl child, youths to be employees of labour via vocational skills.
• To enlighten the public on the need to appreciate vocational skills as a better alternative to other ill-gotten wealth.
• To groom morally and spiritually upright youths.

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The Journey So Far:

• i.) Agro-Allied Services: We are aware of the position of Government in the development of the Agricultural Sector, and hence we are committed to contribute our quota towards the realization of the mandate of Federal Government towards food security. The Institute is presently doing a lot of work by mobilizing people particularly from the rural areas to put forces together in pursuing this laudable dream. Presently, there are about 31 Agro-Allied co-operative groups who are subsidiary groups of the organisation. These co-operative groups are on course in the vanguard of boosting food production, giving employment to Nigerian people and positively affecting the per-capital income of citizens.

• ii.) Sewing: The sewing training arm of the centre is manned by highly experienced hands who have gathered adequate experience and exposure in the Fashion Technology. Annually, over 50 people graduate from this arm of training. D-Pat don’t just send them away aimless and armless, but they are empowered in line with their area of training, so that they can go out to the market fulfilled. It is also interesting to note that this scheme has literally transformed the lives of the women, youth, and elderly by making life more meaningful to them.

• iii.) Catering: As an extension of the mandate of D-Pat, training in the aspect of catering and catering services have been a consistent feature of the centre. Here, students are taught how to make meat pies, cakes, fry doughnut, chicken, egg-roll and fish role. More importantly, both English and African dishes are also taught.

• iv.) Hair Dressing: In this section, students are taught how to wash, set and style their hairs. Of-course over 20 varieties of hair styles abound and students are painstakingly put through the several dimensions of the technology that exist. Fixing, plaiting and styling are all part of the existing area of this department.

• v.) Basic Literacy Programme: D-Pat knows that where education is missing, people are powerless. The Institute is therefore also committed to the mental development of a woman, women, elderly, youth. The Literary section of the Institute is handling this aspect. The Institute has vowed to produce at least, one literate person in every home of four in FCT. People are taught how to read and write, beginning from the most elementary stage of education. Needless to say that this programme is manned by highly experienced hands that are capable of giving the institute a good result for her time and investment. Dozens of people have been mentally empowered through this scheme since inception.

• vi.) Health Education: Health is wealth, and as such, it is our responsibility to educate our students on basic knowledge of health education. we are committed to build into them the philosophy that wealth cannot exist without health. We teach them physical education, to keep them away from hard drugs, to avoid fake drugs and how to preserve our food without infection, creating awareness of HIV/Aids stigma.

• vii.) Home Management: This aspect of our programme is designed to teach people how to manage their home. It is the responsibility of a girl child to keep the rudimentary aspect of keeping the home. Many girl child youths who were labeled irresponsible have been hitherto reformed through the training and now have become the pride of their parents and in the society at large.

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What The Future Holds For DPAT:

In view of the aforementioned programme areas the center has cast her net on, we want to say that we are however not resting on our oars as regards the mandate we have for the Girl-child/Women. It is true that we have touched some lives, but we want to do more as our own irrevocable contribution to putting smile on the faces of people. We are no longer merely interested in the Girl child, but the response we have received in that direction has motivated us to extend this programme to the Youths since it is in their hands that the future of this Global world and Nigeria lies.

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Prospectus:

D-Pat is taking steps towards compiling a Register of the unskilled and the unemployed in FCT with a view to systematically selecting the beneficiary on a batch basis, in which case if you are not part of the first batch, there will still be opportunity for you in the upcoming batch. This programme will be executed through the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). It is our most passionate desire to relieve not just the Girl child here but youths, from the concomitant anathema of unemployment and economic malaise.

Presently we are trying to consolidate our grounds and establish a lasting impact in FCT. Our next phase of work is to reach out to other states of the Federation and introduce our programmes there. That of the Agro-allied Services have taken off in about 27 states of the Federation but that of the micro credit facilities have taken off since on 18th Jan 2007 and about 200 groups of 10 members each have benefited in our rural areas of the FCT in the 6 area councils of Abuja. It may interest you to know that 5 million was released from the FCT Government through Social Development Secretariat to the DPAT Foundation. The beneficiaries list is as follows:

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