The response to the idea of extreme makeovers is really exciting for me. I didn’t expect so many people to be interested. With 5 people, we would have gone ahead, but with so many, it’s making it really exciting.
I don’t think we have anything else to wait for, I believe we should simply start, and perfect things as we go. I’ll suggest we start by collating stories of people around us that we know that can benefit from this. We’ll all put up different stories following a template that I will provide with the story of one that I will present now. We will allow stories to come in for 1 full week, after this time we will then vote for the stories, and pick the first 3. At this stage we’ll need as much help as we can get from people who can volunteer themselves, we’ll investigate the top 3 stories, and come up with an amount that can suffice. I also think it might be a good idea that rather than raise 100k every month, it might be a good idea to raise quite some amount at the outset, invest in a credible place that can give consistent monthly income, and use the returns from this to fund the extreme makeover and Angel Network. We can keep growing the initial capital as we grow and who knows, have a proper foundation in the making (this is dependent on how much of the interest is backed up, we can still start small). I was very impressed when shortly after I had written the previous post someone signed up a clubfreedom slot for the Angel Network. I’m really thrilled by these interests, and believe me, you will be proud we started this together. For the first story please read on.
I’ll title this, Story1, I’ll expect other stories to be written as Story2 and on like that. Anybody who has a particular emergency for Angel Network should also write a story titled Angel Network1. I implore you to make these stories compelling enough to win the votes of people, and factual enough to make it through our investigations. No exaggerations please. Let my Story1 serve as a guide
STORY1
Background
This individual is a 21 year old boy. He lost his father over 4yrs ago, leaving his mother, 4 sisters and a baby brother. The mum currently does not keep a 9-5 job, neither is she able to do any serious business since she is taking care of 5 children. This young lad has been working for the past over 4yrs to feed and cater for his family. He has not been able to make out time and resources for any tertiary education, he is currently managing a recharge card sales and phone call business. This is what he uses to pay rent, feeding and the school fees of all his younger ones. He has also been managing to pay for and attend courses on Computer hardware. He is under sever pressure.
Basis for Qualification
To qualify for this gift, the nominee must have something he or she is doing, that having a little more money will radically transform. This particular nominee has just incurred a serious plunge into his cashflow when he had to squeeze out N60,000 to pay for the pre-university education of his immediate younger sister. This is affecting the capacity of his business. He will be able to do more with more.
Basis for Deserving
To deserve this makeover, nominees must have demonstrated generosity, sacrifice and generally a good heart. This nominee has been depriving himself an education so his siblings can have a better life. I have never seen him complaining or with a frustrated face. He is being strong through it all, without immersing himself in self pity. He is being a man, when the landlord knocks, he’s the man!
Please let the stories role in within the next one week. Like someone said, lets look for an opportunity in the people around us. If you think deeply, you’ll remember someone. Let’s get the ball rolling.
28 thoughts on “Extreme Makeover – Season1”
Oga Dee,
I have actually been watching the posts and waiting for an update on this.
Great, i’ll follow the format for the story write-up.
I also think in addition to investing some amount in a business to generate income, we can still maintain an account from monthly contributions that might be used in ’emergency’ situations.
Like I mentioned earlier, please count me in as a volunteer for any activity that comes up along the way.
May God keep on blessing you for all your efforts.
Hi boss,
Walking the walk and not talking alone as usual. Good job, will most def get a candidate in the few dayus ahead, there is so much suffering in the land.
Let’s do it!
@Chairman,
This story looks good but i guess we still have to wait for others before we vote.
And on the issue of investing the fund so it can yield, great idea but let’s put it in an investment where we can pull out the fund when we need them so we can meet our primary objective.
Cheers.
Josh
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I am in, all the way, and i know just where we can put this investment to give us a steady cash flow, that is if you havent thot its up which i doubt.
I am volunteering to handle one of the cases personally, so let me know who u deem me fit to makeover.
well done sir
i also might have a story too. as soon as i can get the details i’ll post it up.
is there any deadlines for putting up nominations?
STORY 2
Thiis individual’s story touches me to the bone anytime I think of the stress he has been through trying to make a living for himself and his immediate family.
He is a 28 year old young from a broken home, the mother had given birth to seven kids before the irresponsible husband chose to leave her with the kids to suffer. My friend(lets call him Mayor) happens to be the first born, so alot of responsibilities came upon him from a very tender age.
Immediately after secondary school education, he started all sorts of menial jobs and eventually had to give up on going to a higher institution in order to raise his younger ones to do the same. Mayor was being supported by his hard working mother, she also got involved in all kinds of menial jobs until a series of heart attack kept her away from work, this left the burden of caring for 6 siblings and the mother on Mayor alone.
Presently, Mayor is into the laundry business and God has been helping him. He has come in contact with good customers in Banks, Churches and other Companies. Some of them are really willing to do business with him but they insist that he has an office( he has been doing this from home). he needs something in the range of 90-11ok to set up now.
I appeal for your vote for a young man who has gone through alot but has not lost his head, he is still a committed christian and a church worker, despite the fact that so many of his friends have graduated and are working big time, he has not let go of the big picture. Lets make it happen fror him!
deolu,
this is a take gud take off point but ow do we partake or do u think the stories shld roll in first be4 we know wat and wat to do.or will u just lets av an accts that we can drop watever God gives the strenght to.wats on ur mind?
STORY 3
Odunayo, 32, used to work with a construction company on VI but was laid off ten months ago due to some political issues the company was having with the government. Since then he has been trying to keep his head above water with the little savings he had.
He purchased a second hand bike with some of the savings which he has ben managing with for some time now but the bike is currently having problems and needs a new tyre but odun cannot even afford 2,500 which the tyre costs.
He is married to a wife and has a son of about 3 yrs old. Odun was driven out of his house some weeks ago because of his wife who is pregnant and very ill, on the basis that she disturbs the peace of the neighbourhood. Right now his wife is in her home town with her family but they can’t even give her proper care because of the location.
His son (living with a family member) is due to start school but there is no hope that that is coming soon because he is more concerned about getting shelter and proper health care for his wife right now.
Odun is looking for a job, managing his bike(which the life span is almost finished), and currently delivering magazines for a company 2 days in a month and paid accordingly.
He is certain things will get better. He has dreams of opening a barbing salon. He has a passion for that and he is convinced that way he can manage his life better without the fear of always looking back for an employer that would lay him off for no reason of his.
I know Odunayo needs help to stand on his feet again, he needs money to get a home for his family, to take his wife to a proper medical center and as absurd as it may sound, to buy a tyre for his bike. Please help, he needs all he can get.
Murphy grew up with great ambitions just like every young boy of his age. He passed his SSCE at a sitting and was ready to make it to the great Akoka when he sat for JAMB.
He passed his JAMB and awaited a hitch- free admissio process but to his chagrin, things didnt turn out like he planned. Someone promised to help him and he paid some huge ammount of money; this person also told him to move to the campus so that he canstart receiving lectures.
Murphy moved down to the campus and made it clear to all who cared to listen that he had become a bonafide undergraduate. One thing let to the other and he got to know just 3 days to the Matriculation Ceremony that he had been swindled; He couldnt go back home again cos he didnt know how to face the world that he was no longer a student.
He stayed back in school thinking he will write the next JAMB, pass and just save his face but things diddnt work that way. It is now 4 years and he has realized his folly, he recently came to me weeping acknowledging his mistakes. I went to beg the mother on his behalf(The father is late) and he has promised to start from the scratch, he wants to start by earning a professional certification.
Since he has truly changed, please lets help him.
Hello people,
Pls get your stories out,im pretty sure there are very more touching and convincing stories than these two.
Unfortunately im a bit far from reality and dont have any stories to hand,a couple orf years back i probably had loads but Thank God things are getting better and sincerely.
@ Kamal
I believe being a christain isn’t a prerequisite?
@Deolu,
Pls permit me to ask you to shed more light on the basis for nominations.
Are we targeting the sick in the hospital, homeless kids that have talents in need of expression, struggling individuals that need capital to fund their businesses etc or a combination of all.
It will help in selecting stories to post.
just read this
will follow the story format,hav a story of someone i came in touch wit last week
will get dfull story and post it
like i said earlier im in in every activity of angel network
@ Kayode S
Sorry, I’ve been very very busy. You might want to read the previous post for more light. Essentially we are targeting people whose life’s will be entirely different with the token sum. We will then use the balance of what we have left to cater for people at the point of death.
I hope this clarifies.
Let’s have more stories till weekend, whatever we have by Saturday, we’ll start voting.
STORY 5:
This woman sells gorundnuts and fruit by oreun road side, i got to speak with her last nite after buying from her for the second time.
She has 6children and her husband is partially blind, he lost his job due to his eye condition and she has to fend for the family, when i asked her howmuch her whole market was worth, i was shocked when she said N1500. That’s one thousand five hundred naira, not fifteen thousand.
I can handle her issue personally, but i believe it goes beyond the money aspect.
She says she can cook and she wont mind owning a restuarant, where she can cook and sell to meet up to her family’s basic need.
I wont mind partnering with someone (or a few people) who can put her thru or follow up on her.
On a lighter note, her groundnut is very sweet, incase anyone is interested… 🙂
This lady is a widow with 3 kids two boys and a girl. Her husband passed on two years ago after 3 years of strange illness that sunk all available money to them. since the husband passed she has had to cater for the kids all by herself, feeding accommodation, school fees. She graduated late last year from unilag,LAW and will be going to law school soon.
sometime back she decided to sell her husbands shares to raise money to pay fees and also started up canteen which she ran very well untill domestic needs ate into her capital and she had to stop.
she needs money to attend law school when the time comes and most importantly a job that could help her meet her needs.
cases like this is touching cause everthing for her currently looks bleak but if we come toghether and help we would have made the dream of one lawyer in the making come true and thats what life is all about ‘dreams coming true’ it can happen this side of the world truly.
The stories posted by Kamal, Olutola, Tina and Felix really touched my heart. I understand I had to vote. Kamal story remind me of what I passed through in the past. I had to work to offset my school fees while at UI. It is not easy, I know because I have been there, I was even tempted to leave Ibadan to write an exam as a mercenary for someone in Unilag. A fellow classmates in Secondary that I met in Unilag persuaded me not to do it. The need to make quick money never gave me a chance to think about the implication of being caught. Presently, I don’t have a story and I don’t like to hear about people experiencing such things. It is this kind of things that push many innocent people into petrol scooping whenever the Oil Bunkering Mafia drilled a hole in a petrol pipeline. What help me is the focus I had. I believe any of these men and women mentioned above can achieve what they want if they believe it.
Concerning the amount needed. We don’t have to start big on each individual. Each of the people mentioned above can grow small. Then it will be easier for them to learn from their mistakes. Getting a shop or an office is not only the primary thing, the location also matters . Making sure that they don’t eat with ten fingers is also important and they will have to be taught to save 10 percent of their income daily or weekly. I know they will have to adjust to this because they might not have been doing it before. No matter how small the amount, it requires self discipline to achieve.
What about behavioural changes? Do any of them smoke or drink b4? The above question remind me of a man that used to come to my former office to seek for financial help; I was disappointed when I met him smoking and taking a bottle of big stout at a joint that I went to check a business colleague. I was flabbergasted to the extent I had to tell him not to visit my former office again.
Deolu can guide them on the right investment to put their money. Giving the able bodied men money might not be the best way to help them. It will take a good deal of work to change their orientation. Olutayo’s story really surprised me. A man just laid off yet having no reserve that he can fall back to, I knew that it is possible for a motor-cyclist to make more than #1,800 to #2,500 on a bad/good day excluding feeding. Yet I’m surprised that Odunayo can’t even afford that. What kind of life is that? Olutayo has the responsiblity to teach Odunayo at least one tenth of his or her own financial knowledge. Only this will make and transform Odunayo to become the kind of man that will be respected by his neighbours.
@ALL
Please Let’s start voting… We are all entitled to one vote each… Let’s make this happen. WE can reserve all other stories to season2.
A big thank you to all that came up with stories.
Cheers
Adeolu
how does one vote?
lets hope we dont give biased assistance as some poeple tend to make their situations harsher than it actually is.
Hope things work out good
I am still interested in someone(s).. 😉 who can partner with me to on follow up or guidance on the woman i mentioned earlier.
Please anyone interested can call me on 07028199268, i still bought some more groundnuts yesterday, and it is still super… 🙂
Thanks.
Without doubt, I will cast my vote for Story 2. I believe Mayor needs our support. He has what he is doing and what he needs is just this small push. Lets make it happen for him.
I cast my vote for the story from FELIX….
i believe the groundnut woman needs help.
Thank you all .
The story from Kamal seem more touching. What the guy has made happen for his siblings, let God use us to make it happen for him too.
Deolu,
I will go for story 2 about “Mayor”
It’ll go along way to help him
Cheers
My vote is for Story 1.
I cast my vote for Mayor. He only need a push to get to the promise land.
I cast my vote for Mayor (Story 2), i believe our support will go along way to get his business stable and moving.
I cast my vote for story 1
i will go for mayor as well but kamal needs support too. he’s got something working already and he’s ready to learn.