What motivated us to begin
The Charter For Change (CFC) was established by a small group of students; academically and democratically minded students, headed by Waive O. Benjamin in Ebonyi state University of Nigeria. We saw the need to foster and improve educational opportunities, career development and life skills for at-risk youths through focused programs and initiatives. The CFC since its establishment in the year 2001 has supported programs and initiatives by her members and has written several books and pamphlets on the subject "change" in concern of society. One of these books is The Burden of Change, written by Godswill Okiame.

What we do

1. We fight cases on behalf of students and college staff in defense of their academic freedom and democratic rights. We do this mainly through word of mouth, publicity, circulars, media and petitions to schools concerned.
2. We raise charity donations to encourage students to continue schooling beyond normal schooling age. Again, we raise these funds through word of mouth, publicity, circulars to regular and potential supporters, information stalls at local events and application for funding from funding agencies. Every penny we raise goes to these people.
3. We organize seminars, workshops and conventions as a means of realizing our goals of change in the society.

We look forward to a time when no Nigerian child will be deprived of his/her rights. We look forward to a time when all initiatives and dreams of young people will be brought to reality. We envisage a situation were every Nigerian student will not be deprived of his /her democratic and educational rights.

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