Bannah Center for Community Transformation (BACCOT)

PROJECT EVALUATION REPORT . We thank God for the privilege to work with our internally displaced and persecuted sisters from northern Nigeria. We held our formal evaluation on the 3rd of Sept. 2016. 11 of the women were in attendance plus Helen and I making 13 in all.  one of those absent was down with malaria. There was no report from the remaining three. Helen will be following up on this at a later time. What went well at the meeting: 1. Four persons have sold all their products and are now in the process of re stocking. 2.Five persons have sold more than half of their products. 3. Three successfully opened personal savings account with the bank.  Challenges: 1. Three people ran out of plastic bottles for packaging their Vaseline and so, were unable to continue with production. 2. All of the 11 present at the meeting want to sell food stuff such as grains in addition to their line of business. This is likely to saturate the community market...

I write to share with you of a privilege i had to conduct a mission survey at Gambon, northeast Nigeria. I first heard about this rural community nearly  two months ago. From human point of view there was no reason for me to make the trip. First I had never been to Gambon before. I don't know anyone there. I was only given someone's name who live around there. There is no mobile network coverage in Gambon. Despite all the odds somehow I had a deep conviction God wanted me to carry out the survey. And I also knew someone like you will be praying.  So, I departed home on October the 29th after praying together with my family. I boarded a commercial vehicle from Jalingo the capital of Taraba State at about  8am  and arrived Bali about  noon . Hired another vehicle and got to Gayam border  2 hours later . Gayam was the terminus for vehicles. I hired a motorcycle to bring me to the river side where I will have to wait for wooden canoe to come from the oth...