PROJECTS PAGE

Our Programs Driving One Health, Climate Resilience & Community Wellbeing Across Nigeria

OVERALL ORGANIZATION-WIDE IMPACT

OHRI has:

  • Reached 3+ stateswith climate-health action
  • Engaged over 1,500+ women, youth & vulnerable persons
  • Strengthened 10+ community groups
  • Conducted multiple climate-health & One Health training sessions
  • Increased awareness on heat resilience, clean air, AMR & environmental health

🟩 ONGOING PROJECTS (Active)

Climate & Mental Health Resilience Campaign: Supporting Emotional Wellbeing Amid Climate Stress

📍 Locations: North-East + North-West
📅 Duration: April 2025 – Ongoing
🤝 Funder: OHRI / Volunteers / Community Partners
🎯 Focus Areas: Mental Health, Climate Stress, Community Wellbeing

Key Activities

  • Community dialogues on climate anxiety
  • Coping-skills training for women & youth
  • Mental-health awareness workshops
  • Community safe-space facilitation

Key Impacts:

  • Reduced climate-related emotional distress
  • Improved community coping capacity
  • Strengthened psychosocial support system.

Environmental Health Protection Through Community Action

📍 Locations: Adamawa, Gombe 📅 Duration: February 2025 – Ongoing 🤝 Funder: OHRI Core Support / Community Partners 🎯 Focus Areas: Environmental Health, Pollution Control, Behaviour Change Key Activities: Community clean-up campaigns Clean cooking awareness for households Waste reduction and recycling mobilization Environmental education for youth groups Key Impacts: Improved environmental cleanliness in targeted communities Reduced open burning and unsafe waste practices Increased adoption of cleaner household behaviours

One Health Community Safety Program: Strengthening Disease Prevention & AMR Awareness

📍 Locations: Adamawa, Gombe State 📅 Duration: January 2025 – Ongoing 🤝 Funder: OHRI / Local Partners 🎯 Focus Areas: One Health, AMR, Public Health, Ecosystem Health Key Activities:  AMR awareness campaigns Hygiene and sanitation education Human–animal–environment safety training Engagement with health workers & animal health officers Key Impacts: Increased understanding of antimicrobial resistance Reduced risky practices that promote AMR Strengthened One Health collaboration within communitie

Climate-Health Youth Champions Program: Building Youth Leaders in Climate & One Health Action

📍 Locations: Adamawa, Gombe 📅 Duration: July 2024 – Ongoing 🤝 Funder: OHRI & Schools 🎯 Focus Areas: Climate Change, One Health, Empowerment, Education Key Activities: Leadership training for youth School-based climate-health campaigns Youth-led environmental initiatives Peer-education and storytelling Key Impacts: Empowered youth leaders promoting climate-health awareness Stronger community participation driven by young people Improved understanding of climate risks among student

🟦 COMPLETED PROJECTS

 

Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection Program: Community Actions for Sustainable Land, Water & Resource Management

📍 Locations: Rural & Peri-Urban Communities 📅 Duration: January 2023 – December 2024 🤝 Funder: OHRI + Community leaders 🎯 Focus Areas: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Management Key Activities:  Tree planting & land restoration Water-source protection actions Biodiversity awareness session Key Impacts: Rehabilitated natural spaces Enhanced ecological sustainability Strengthened biodiversity protection

Healthy Air, Healthy Schools Pilot: Reducing Pollution Exposure for School Children

📍 Location: Gombe 📅 Duration: June 2023 – March 2024 🤝 Funder: OHRI + School Authorities 🎯 Focus Areas: Air Quality, Public Health Key Activities: School air-pollution education Indoor air quality safety tips Environmental hygiene training Key Impacts: Improved awareness among students Reduced exposure to harmful pollutants Better environmental practices adopted in school

Women & Climate Safety Initiative: Empowering Mothers & Girls Against Climate-Health Risks

📍 Location: Adamawa 📅 Duration: January 2022 – December 2023 🤝 Funder: OHRI / Local Women Leaders 🎯 Focus Areas: Climate Resilience, Women’s Health, Empowerment Key Activities: Clean cooking demonstrations Heat-safety training Household environmental-health educatio Key Impacts: Reduction in indoor air pollution risks Strengthened resilience among mothers & girls Improved safe home-environment practice

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