UPDATE ON THE 'OTODOGBAME COMMUNITY' #HEALTHALERT This morning the Rural Urban Development Initiative [RUDI] team paid a visit to #Otodogbame #Slum Community in #Eti_Osa Local Govt Area to ascertain the story earlier published on teenage and little children dying due to restricted access to #Medical Services and confirmed the situation to be as reported. While speaking with the Bale, youth and community leaders; the bereaved parents still grieving, recounted their ordeal. According to them, they lost over 70 children within six week. In the present of health workers from the Federal, State and Local Governments directed to attend to the health need of the community due to the widely publicized outcry on the 9th and 10th of February 2016; Otodogbame community recorded another case of two deaths. The health officials however mentioned that residents of the community did not allow them to carry out the polio vaccine exercise due to fear and suspicion that it might be a ploy by the #Ikate Monarch and people to poison the whole community as a result of the long time land feud between the communities.

NIGERIA POLICE FORCE SACKS BADAGRY COMMUNITY, RESIDENTS CALL FOR GOVERNOR AMBODE’S INTERVENTION 

Dwellers of Mowo Phase II, Araromi Ale, and Atiporome in Badagry, Lagos State have for the umpteenth time stormed the State Government House in Alausa, Ikeja, to detest the forceful eviction and demolition of their homes by the Nigeria Police Force to construct a housing scheme for serving police officers. . - See more at: http://ruralreporters.com/nigeria-police-force-sacks-badagry-community-residents-call-for-governor-ambodes-intervention/ | Rural Reportersdents-call-for-governor-ambodes-intervention/ | Rural Reporters

Public alert 
Otodogbame slum community in Eti osa local govt area of Lagos state one community many problems in the past, arson ,killing and now young and little children are dying on daily basis between January to date 69 case of death teenagers has been recorded. 
 FG Urged To Pay Attention Plight Of Slum Dwellers | Nigerian News ... http://leadership.ng/news/460552/fg-urged-to-pay-attention-plight-of-slum-dwellers

SOLI SOLI SOLI SOLIDARITY FOR EVER

TODAY DECEMBER 16th at NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION LAGOS OFFICE

 December 16, 2013. The people of Atiporome, Araromi Ale, and Mowo phase 11 in Badagry protest to NHRC LAGOS OFFICE their home was forcefully evicted on16th ,17th of December 2013.
Today marks the remembrance of wrongful demolition of these communities; makes it two years that the people have been living without shelter.
RURAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (RUDI) marched in solidarity with the Badagry people to NHRC Lagos office as we mark two years of no shelter, two years of living in the open under the harsh climate weather with children like refugees in their father's land Nigeria.

                                                  HUMAN RIGHT DAY OUT DOOR ADVOCACY

The World Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on the 10th December. It commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Rural and Urban Development Initiative (RUDI) a Non Governmental Organization is a movement of the urban poor for the dignity and development of marginalized communities in the state.The theme of this year’s commemoration is 

"Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always.” And is aimed at promoting and raising awareness of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) created in the aftermath of WWII, the two Covenants along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights became the International Bill of Human Rights setting out the civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights that are the birth right of all human beings.
As is usual, we are commemorating this day with the poor, marginalized and vulnerable people in Lagos (Ijora Badia East, NPA Quarters Bar beach, Oko Baba Ebute metta with others displaced and evicts) and  having a world human rights day’s lecture at Jones Street, Ebute-Metta (West), Lagos                                                                 

                                          

Young Leaders Academy

Young Leaders Academy(creche, pre-primary and primary school)
This is a free school for children living in the slum. This project was established to help children who do not have access or means to acquire education.

Spaces for Change Trains RUDI Staff on Blogging

On November 12, 2015, RUDI's Secretary, Blessing Izobo received training at Spaces for Change's office on basic blogging techniques. Through this training, RUDI will be able to documents its work more effectively and tell its stories more powerfully to human rights stakeholders and advocates around the world.  We want to show to the public what RUDI is doing, and in the process, increase our network of supporters and collaborators. 

Many members of our communities do not have access to public institutions and their voices cannot be heard. This blog will enable us to tell their stories and invite strategic ideas and action that address the precarious conditions in which the urban poor live.