South Saharan Social Development Organization (SSDO) is aduly registered non-profit organization in Nigeria, with a primary focus of equipping young women and men with the social, economic, and educational skills needed to survive and compete favourably in a vastly changing and urbanising sub Saharan Africa. Its main office is in Enugu in the South East of Nigeria but it also has a sub office in Abuja, Nigeria. more

Structure

SSDO began as an empowerment organization for young women. The original aim was to help young women develop positive images of themselves and appreciate being women. This was in response
to the low self esteem and image many Nigerian girls,
especially from the South-east of the Country had of
themselves and womanhood in general which was
putting them at risk of HIV/AIDS and other
sexuallytransmitted diseases. With time it
became obvious that a major part of the
girls’ low self esteem came from their
economic disempowerment. Without
incomes of their own, the girls were
totally dependent on their male
household members, boyfriends or
“sugar daddies.” This made SSDO
to add its credit facilities to the
programme. We are also beginning
to train the young women on
Computerskills as about 70%
of them do not know how to
use a computer.

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