About Us
Mohammed VI vocational training institute Maiduguri (M6VTI) is a not-for-prot institute aimed at developing youths, males and females, with high quality skills required in the construction industry. The goal is to provide the youth with opportunities for sustainable livelihoods through formal training in entrepreneurship, management and other life skills.
The Boko Haram insurgency has created multiple challenges for Nigeria particularly in the North East where communities have been decimated forcing millions to become internally displaced. This displacement from their homes has caused growing unemployment among youths, despair and consequent loss of dignity. This condition provides an environment on which the appeal for Boko Haram festers among youths.
Also, ongoing reconstruction efforts of communities affected by the insurgency is faced by a dearth of local high-quality skills. The M6VTI has identied that through training of youth in construction industry related disciplines, the short-term ambitions of mitigating the lure of Boko Haram while providing local workforce for the reconstruction. The long-term potential for youth empowerment and sustainable living ensures the foundations of a strong society are set.
Girl Child Concerns was established in 2003 with the goal of improving the lives of vulnerable girls and their families by addressing the inequality in access to formal education experienced by girls from poor, rural and disadvantaged communities especially in the northern part of Nigeria and Africa. Girl Child Concerns has continuously sought ways of improving the lives of girls and women through innovative and sustainable ways such as economic empowerment, Health, Education and awareness as well as training communities to be responsible citizens and encourage accountability.
The organization has empowered and promoted girl child education and provided educational support to young people through its Female Students Scholarships Scheme (FSSS), Safe Spaces, and life skills development in Kaduna, Plateau, Katsina, Yobe, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Borno States in Nigeria and through its partners in Ethiopia and Ghana.
In addition, GCC has established GCC Girls Academy (a boarding secondary school for IDP girls) and Mohammed VI Vocational Training Institute in Maiduguri, Borno State for training and integration of youth (boys and girls) affected by the insurgency in Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region.
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Envisaged to be a technical training institute with reference point to produce competent, high quality, creative, principled, productive, disciplined and skilled workforce for the construction industry with entrepreneurial qualities.
To be the best technical vocational education and training institute in Nigeria, which leverages global best practices in learning, instruction and practice as a basis for creating a highly skilled workforce for the regional construction industry.
An Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Public Health Physician with extensive knowledge and experience in strategic planning and implementation of health, social and development transformation initiatives, Dr. Mairo Mandara has worked with a wide range of stakeholder locally and internationally including high level government officials, traditional and religious leaders, women groups and civil societies across Africa. In addition to her carrier experiences and work as a gynecologist and Public Health Physician Dr. Mairo has led many initiatives including being the Senior RH/ HIV Advisor for USAID, Health Systems Specialist for University of Columbia, Country Representative of the Packard Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as Senior Fellow with the Children Investment Foundation UK. Dr. Mairo is currently the Chief Adviser and Coordinator on Sustainable Development, Partnerships and Humanitarian Response to the Governor of Borno State responsible for leading the strategy team of the Governor for the rebuilding efforts of the state destroyed by insurgency. In addition, she is an Associated Research Professor at the Federal University of Health Sciences Azare and a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Dr. Mairo has served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) that helps to shape and continuously improve the performance of the UN Central Emergency Response Funds, a member of the Governing Council of Nile University Abuja, the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Nigeria and Advisory Council of Ondo State University of Medical Sciences. Dr Mairo Mandara has served and currently serves on the Boards of many National and International NGOs as well as Private Sector Industries. Dr. Mairo is the founder and Board Chair of Girl Child Concerns, an NGO dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through providing educational opportunities and lifesaving skill, including married adolescents, and providing income generation for poor women. As part of this initiative and in her personal capacity, Mairo has over the last ten years been deeply involved in efforts to rebuild the Boko Haram ravaged Northeast Nigeria; ensuring girls affected by insurgency resume and have good education at the GCC Girls Academy, Training Village Health Workers to provide basic health care services in rural communities, providing income generation opportunities for rural women and Vocational / Entrepreneurial skills for young people in the Lake Chad Region. Dr Mairo mentors a pool of young men and women across Africa, each of who has started their network of community, and business enterprises. Mairo Mandara was nominated as one of the three women building peace awards finalists for the prestigious USIP Global Women Building Peace Award 2025.
Our Key Objectives
Being a social concern, M6VTI programmes will target and support initiatives aimed at:
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