About CONDI

We love what we do and it shows. With years of experience in the field, we understand and know our beneficiaries like the back of our hands. There’s no challenge too big or too small and we dedicate our utmost energy to every project and or program we take on.

CONDI is a grassroots nonprofit and non-governmental Organization with Headquarters in Liberia, West Africa. Besides being registered in Liberia, CONDI is also registered in the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone and is also a 501c3 tax exempt nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America, with EIN 84-3180148. 

CONDI ‘s Mission stands on five (5) developmental pillars to adequately provide and transform the lives of the less fortunate and vulnerable women and children especially those in slum and least developed communities through several opportunities; namely: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Nutrition, Capacity Building, Women & Children Protection, Welfare & Empowerment and ICT Training. CONDI is among the NGOs promoting poverty focused strategies and programs in Liberia.

CONDI's Vision is that one day, every woman and child - even in the most remote areas of a nation – will attain improved access to food, clean drinking water, a safer community, and excellent education.

A synopsis of the five pillars

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) -  CONDI is working to provide enhanced and sustained Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and environmental services through innovative and creative service delivery mechanism. Program services cover institutional and organizational development support, capacity building, research and knowledge management services that meet end users’ expectations in keeping with universal declaration on the Sustainable Development. 

CONDI, with support from The Last Well, an International Faith based Nonprofit organization based in the United States of America, constructed 46 new hand pumps and rehabilitated 39 hand pumps in 61 communities in 6 counties. These hand pumps provide safe drinking water to at least a combined 23,446 residents.

Food Security and Nutrition - CONDI works to build self-reliance, food security and justice in Liberia by:

1. Engaging and encouraging rural and urban agriculture. 
2. Influencing public policy. 
3. Promoting healthy eating; 
4. Collecting, storing and distributing additional food and supplies to local agencies, and international charitable organizations and meal programs; and, 
5. Encouraging cooperative buying and directing youth and women towards careers in food-related fields.

Women & Children Protection, Welfare & Empowerment -  Under this initiative, we implement services and programs which protect and promote the welfare of all women and children. We execute projects which prevent the neglect, abuse, or exploitation of women and children – and we also support at-risk families through services which allow children, where appropriate, to remain with their families or return to their families in a timely manner. CONDI is working with several women groups to support women acquire several marketable and life-sustaining skills. CONDI also have women involving in agriculture in rural Liberia.

Capacity Building - We work to serve communities, prisons, organizations and individuals (women and children) through education, research, and capacity building to ensure safe, secure and efficient society that enables the workforce and organizations work in conducive capacity building environment as they deliver on national development agenda.

Information Communications Technology, Training, Assessment, Evaluation and Research - CONDI is working with charitable international and local organizations as well as partnering with government to continue offering and supporting communities, local organizations and vulnerable groups (women, children and People Living with Disabilities) with reliable technological solutions, household water treatment kits, and handwashing facilities that help them stay at the competitive edge of nation building. CONDI also seeks to provide institutional data and assessment findings for external reporting; as well as provide institutional data and findings from research and assessment to support institutional and national planning processes.

CONDI’s key Aims and Objectives:

• To ensure access to water and sanitation for all
• Reduce water-related diseases and optimize health benefits of sustainable water and water management
• Promote programs to ensure sustainability of sanitation facilities, through their correct usage, operations and adequate maintenance.
• Ensure that food, nutrition and livelihood security, at the household level, is strengthened thereby ensuring greater resilience and proper readiness to future “shocks” such as conflict, drought, flood, disease and inflation.
• Develop food production systems based on agricultural diversification, conservation of water, and efficient use of land.
• Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
• Seek the welfare of all children and their caregiver.
• Identify capacity needs/gaps and respond adequately.
• Establish programs for improving the socio-economic status of women and children.
• Coordinate, collaborate and network with any other persons, governmental, non-governmental, and faith-based organizations with special focus on identification, registration, tracing, as well as family and community reunification and reintegration of children in disaster, conflict and emergency situations and institutional care
  

       CONDI’s Ongoing Programs & Projects

• Drop in the Bucket: This project provides access to safe and portable drinking water, access to improved sanitation and proper hygiene behavior practices in selected slum and hard to reach rural communities, learning institutions and rural health centers.

•  The Back to School: CONDI aims to provide daytime pre-school and primary schooling for underprivileged children who are unable to afford school fees. In addition, counseling services will be provided to young people, age 5 to 16, living on the streets. Most of the children are daytime-roadside hawkers, sex workers, drug addicts, early-age alcoholics and growing deviant. Many of them have also spent time living on the streets encountering all forms of abuses.

•   Sit-A-Child Gift Campaign: Restoring Hope and Sharing Love Sit-A-Child Gift Campaign makes the difference. It saves children from the streets, early marriages, child labor, prostitution, and drug abuse, getting into crime and give them a productive future. Giving gifts of school and non-school items to children and providing hot meal for them during school hours, give them the desire to go to and stay in school which is crucial for their future. Schools provide education that can work as a safety net in the child’s life and help to break the cycle of poverty in their families. 

•  After School Program: Provides academic tutoring services to children after school. This program is designed to keep kids and youths off the streets where they are likely to engage in unfortunate activities.

•  School Health Education: Provides health education to children. School health clubs to be reinforced and made fully operational. Focus areas to include HIV/AIDS and reproductive health education, menstrual hygiene, sex education as well as general sicknesses. This program will also involve counseling and programs centered on healthy family practices.

•  Prison Capacity Building for Society Re-entry: CONDI capacity building programs also aim to reach out to prisoners. Generally, those prisoners who have less than 36 months to be released, will need to participate in the program. The program focuses mainly on skills training and handicraft. They include: Basic computer training programs (software and hardware), welding, shoemaking, carpentry, plumbing, vulcanization, pastry, tailoring, soap-making, hairdressing, interior and exterior decoration, event planning, etc. In addition to skills training, the program also provides opportunities for high school dropouts to complete high school while serving prison terms. By providing skill training to unskilled inmates, the desire for reoffending is reduced or even eradicated to a larger extent.  

•  Agriculture and Food Security: CONDI has embarked on agricultural projects to create a largescale farm within several communities, proceeds from these farms would contribute to sustaining all CONDI’s current and future projects.

• Denim Athletic Club (DAC): is the Grass Roots initiative, which includes several athletic programs that introduce sports to school-learning and disadvantaged children from disadvantaged areas, with the aim of providing them with an opportunity to build character and learn important life skills and morals, such as:

• Integrity

• Self-respect

• Courtesy

• Sportsmanship

• Confidence

• Perseverance

• Patience

• Social Integration

• Responsibility

• Decision Making

• Punctuality

• Honesty

Denim Athletic Club (DAC), which was named in honor of Denim Rogers, an amateur America Athlete, of the Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas, is one of the many programs under the Contemporary Development Initiatives (CONDI) that focuses on child development using the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model, with age-appropriate skills activities to assist in the development stages that all individuals go through, whether they are physical, emotional or social. More than sport learning activities, DAC provides a positive impact on children, their families, and their communities through great athletics games. It provides the perfect framework for optimal growth, development, and maturation through sport.

The mission of the Denim Athletic Club is to enrich the lives of disadvantaged children by providing them with the necessary physical, intellectual, emotional and social tools and knowledge to excel in life and become like Denim Rogers.

DAC is committed to social transformation and to creating a better life for the poor, vulnerable and excluded children of Liberian and Sierra Leonean society.

The need for youth development programs is validated and enhanced by information that attributes long-term value to children in these programs. Numerous studies document the direct value of children participating in sport. These studies show that involvement in development programs such as the Denim Athletic Club reduces the potential for drug, sex, crime, and gang-related behavior. It also gives children the foundation to build character and learn important life skills.

The economic, social and personal value of investing in children's lives has a positive impact on communities and the country.

The Denim Athletic Club provides an opportunity that serves as a personal reference for children throughout their lifetime. DAC will empower children to grow up to be successful citizens and community leaders. It is what drives us to offer hope and opportunity for a better future.

Denim Athletic Club has a complete model that enriches the lives of disadvantaged children through sport! It is tried, tested, and proven. DAC is looking forward to expanding and implementing programs across Liberia and Sierra Leone, together with our potential partners. Incorporating life-skills elements into sports coaching programs not only creates a perfect platform for social transformation, but also helps to transform the lives of a few underprivileged children as they reflect through Denim Rogers – seeing him as their role model.

Children learn the basics of life and how to excel while having fun in a safe and friendly environment. The main objective of DAC is to enrich the lives of disadvantaged children through sport. DAC will be involved in sport-enhancing activities for all impoverished, previously disadvantaged young people in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Through these activities, it is envisaged that the children with whom the program will work will acquire new skills to improve themselves by learning important life and social skills and empowering themselves to grow up to be successful citizens and leaders in their communities. Having said that, it is understandable that DAC has no borders in partnering with as many individuals and/or institutions to restore hope and share love with disadvantaged children.

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