The Issachar Sustainability Green Center
The Issachar Sustainability Green Center is a collaborative initiative created by Issachar University and Jos Green Center dedicated to promoting sustainability and environmental consciousness. It will serve as an educational and research hub focused on green technologies, renewable energy, and sustainable practices. The ISGC will host workshops, exhibitions, and seminars to raise awareness and foster a culture of sustainability while striving to accomplish some selected SDGs.
OUR VISION:
Our aim is to pioneer innovations for large scale system change in Nigeria. Jos Green Centre is a leading youth movement delivering alternative solutions for large system change in Nigeria
OUR MISSION:
To pioneer innovations for large scale system change in Nigeria through social entrepreneurship eco-entrepreneurship, peer mentoring, advocacy, research, networking and partnership.
WHAT WE DO:
We are a leading youth movement delivering alternative solutions for large system change in Nigeria.
HOW WE DO IT
Through our values of:
A sound relationship with God Teamwork Commitment to Justice Innovativeness And an ever evolving commitment to a restorative economy and healthy environment
OUR EVENTS:
Live Justly 10-Week Study Advocacy and Movement Building Bootcamp Greenovation Conferences Youth Entrepreneurship Education
OUR PROGRAMME AREAS:
Values Reorientation Environmental and Economic Sustainability Policy Influencing Social and Eco-Enterprising
OUR STORIES
Jos Green Centre is a leading youth movement delivering alternative solutions for large system change in Nigeria. We’re empowering youth and underserved populations to become self-sufficient actors in an environmentally sound, economically sustainable and socially just future.
Elizabeth Solomon Achato is a 28-year-old trauma healing expert who wants a simpler future with a less complicated lifestyle for humans. She believes this will create a better future and that humans have the power to choose this path. . “I see a future where things will be simpler, humans will be more natural and not hiding behind filters and cloned lives other known as social media know our future will be different, and it’s up to us to decide how to make it different for the better.” As a member of Jos Green Centre, Elizabeth’s passion to address the challenges of the environment became a reality. Through the micro-funding training program, Elizabeth looks forward to acquiring both communication and leadership skills which she believes are important skills for start-up businesses. Elizabeth hopes to use the funds to empower herself intellectually and create jobs.
Dimka E. Queen, a 32 year old graduate of Business Education. Growing up, Queen with her family reared chickens. Queen also baked cakes and pies and her family was her first customer. Queen is still faced with the challenge of starting a sustainable business and she hopes to learn how to sustain it. She is involved with Jos Green Centre because she wants to create and be the change. Queen hopes to build her capacity in business sustainability. Her goal is to keep layer birds to meet the demand for healthy sources of protein from eggs and meat. She will also sell by-products like chicken droppings as organic fertilizer. Queen says: “I am involved with Jos Green Centre to be and create the change I want to see in and around me.”
Sho Godiya Godwin has been into buying and selling but mostly service provision (especially in carpentry). He is a member of the Jos Green Center and the plastic hub manager for the Jos Green Cycle Hub. Godiya will use the lessons from the training to think innovatively, be resilient, and improve on his idea of running his business. He plans to develop an agro-allied business such as rearing rabbits and hutch construction.
Muyiwa Joseph is a 31-year-old tech expert who has worked with various organizations. He co-founded a tech firm and aims to simplify technology knowledge for teenagers, enabling them to keep up with advancements. He views himself leading a large tech firm that cultivates tech-savvy youth in Nigeria. Jos Green Centre motivates him, and he serves in their Communication Unit.. “Jos Green Centre is a motivation for me, for the fact that we are all young people who are keen on changing the world, one step at a time.” From the training course, Muyiwa hopes to expand his knowledge of management He will also use the funds to actualize his company’s goal by purchasing the needed assets and closing on prospective clients. “The future is in perspective. I see myself running a very big brand of technology firm, raising a new generation of technology-savvy youths and teenagers in Nigeria.”
50,000 PLASTICS OUT OF THE OCEAN! THE JOS GREEN CENTRE AND ANGOLO JOS YOUTHS STORY
With the goal to build local peace and reduce the effects of the global pandemic on the lives of the young people in the Anglo-Jos community, Jos Green Centre together with the youths of the community began setting up a community livelihood center this year.
A Baseline study showed that the youths of the community were interested and optimistic that a Community Centre will serve as a platform to demonstrate peace building and model an integration of Economic and Environmental Sustainability (EES).
The project began with the acquisition of an abandoned building donated by the community to be remodeled and used as the center.
In order to model an example of economic and environmental sustainability that will continuously inspire these kinds of livelihoods from the center, various means we’re designed and explored re-purpose plastics such as PET bottles to rebuild and refurbish the livelihood center.
The idea of Repurposing the plastic bottles came from the knowledge of the so many problems plastics cause in the world and most especially the oceans, seeing that there are more plastics than marine organisms in it.
The PET bottles were repurposed into roofing sheets.
The broken floors were filled with bottles filled sand in them.
Other plastic materials such as compact discs, also served as wallpaper, laces with old pieces of clothes.
This projects has so far contributed in taking out approximately 50,000 plastics, which would have polluted the water bodies.
Tremendous!!! And we are not yet done yet, we hope to stop more plastics from ending into our Oceans through this project.
BROKEN THINGS MADE WHOLE.
GRAINS TO GAIN PROJECT
Our Vision: “Seeding into the Economically Sustainable Goals of Young People”
Our Mission: “To empower youth to become self-sufficient actors in an environmentally sound, economically sustainable and socially just future.”
The Problem: Many people in our community are struggling to achieve economic sustainability, and lack the opportunity to escape poverty. But we don’t need more handouts, we need more sustainable hand-ups. The Continent is in desperate need of a new generation of economic changemakers with the skills and mindset to help protect our environment and build business structures based on justice and ethical practices.
However, there are not many support systems to help our young and driven entrepreneurs get:
- education in social and eco business practices
- feedback and support to create better and more sustainable business models and ideas
- financial support to help them get started
Our Solution: We’re building a program from the ground up to cultivate a new generation of social and eco entrepreneurs, for FREE.
The Grains to Gains project is an applied learning program that supports young people to gain skills and start a micro-business or a project or test their concepts and ideas in a “social/environmental” entrepreneurial way. Participants join a local learning cohort through our organization, where they build entrepreneurial skills and mindsets, and use the power of community to test and perfect their social and eco-business ideas.
Upon successful completion of the course, these burgeoning entrepreneurs pitch their sustainable business ideas to our community. Those that are selected get access to seed funding raised from within the community, and from caring people like you. Not only do our entrepreneurs get an education, they also get the support and help of a community to hone their businesses chops and drive them toward becoming economic actors for the greater good.
We believe that people everywhere deserve a chance to create viable, profitable, sustainable and socially just livelihoods that will position them as leaders and actors in a more equitable and healthy world. We believe that together, we have the power to change the course of humanity’s fate and build a brighter future.