aisha2:

Lagos Actually pays well. They have passed the Prision reform Bill and need a lot of Social workers to coordinate child and community services.
FCDA pays reall well too. Hospitals like National Hospitals pay well.
@all, if you dont know somehing, try to find out, broaden your knowledge. How can you say there are no social workers in Nigeria? Maybe we do not make a lot of noise but there are over 10000 registered social workers in Nigeria, Go to any major hospital and ask for a social worker. Please learn to know

Dis Guy:

150,000,000/10,000 registered!


greaaaat!

aisha2:

Not everyone can be a Doctor, Pilot or Social worker. If you are bothered about our population you can take a second degree or masters in Social work and make it 10001

nigerfine:

It is like the op is trying to buy the idea of setting up an NGo, good, this is deviation from his social work. i love niger for life and live in US .i want to remind the op to do something that will create job instead of advocating for motherless, handicaps and so forth that the govt that has not taken care of salaries should come in and take care of this burden.even in America, haven't you heard that social security is almost finishing?Please don't waste your time ,start thinking of Ngo instead of social work;these are two different things.

St. Richy:

social work is a good profession if for selfless reasons and it exits every where in Nigeria.

aisha2:

I agree with you. Besides you dont just start an NGO, i worked in 3 different organizations before i gathered enough experience to start mine. Even with all my experience and connections the begining was very very hard, but when you are real and you in for the right reasons and not money things will add up, a lot of NGOs spring up but die off after some months of donating items to orphanages, it takes real willpower and courage for any organization in Nigeria to survive talkless of one that does not produce money or profit. A lot of NGOs which started with mine have died off even some that were led by very powerful women becuase they were in it for recognition and for people to praise them. This our work is as selfless as anything, when you start helping peopole and start developing the GOD complex then you loose it, God does not share his stage with anyone, you have to always remember that you are just a vessel and God can use anyone.
The good part is that Nigerians are learning to be more aware of the poverty and suffering around them and private citizens are learning to do more for pople who are not so fortunate. 60% of our funding comes from individulas, some who do not even work but make it a point to donate every single month. That keeps me going. I sent the poster a mail, try to reply when you can we will talk more.
Congrats on making a 2. 1, keep the flag flying

9jauk:

Have been thinking about this for a while,i got married to a foreigner she a social worker earn about over £3000 a month with less dan 2years work experience in uk, 750,000naira monthly can she get dis much in 9ja.
 Thanks alot for this thread a go stay back more,my rake never break.

Damysa:

@Aisha2 hhhmmmm u seems well rounded in social works, never knew it exist this much.
thanks for enlightening us

Redman44:

I'm really impressed with this thread. The problem with Nigeria and Nigerians is that we do not take the time to look for information before we comment on issues. I've always known that there are social workers in Nigeria since age 6. It is just that the government has not promoted the idea of asking people to be social workers. Unlike Nigeria, Social Workers and Social Care professionals are highly cherished in the western world. I don't know of any Nigerian University that offers Social Work as a degree. However, I know a proper research through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board [JAMB] might reveal one or two Higher Institutions offering the course under a different name. A lot of NGO's in Nigeria failed because the people behind them did not really know what they had got themselves into and were not equipped with the patience and skills that sustains such projects. I hope more publicity will be given to Social Care work in Nigeria and that a bill will be passed by our senators to make Social Work a noble profession in the country.

@Aisha2, keep up the good work. I admire people who follow their dreams with a passion. Cheers.


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zionsown:

AIsha i have sent you an e-mail i must confess the lessons i have gotten from this thread i could never have gotten it from any university or colleges all that have been said is true, the reason i choose to be a social worker is becos i believe some days you and i will be able to influence policies that cateres for what we know as pies (physical intellectual emotional social needs of our children. here in the uk there is act known as every child matters and it is upon that every benefit given to a child is drawn from. reason is that the government understand that the salaries or earnings that parents gets may not be enough to cater for children and if they struggles and becomes depress it might put the children at risk and becos of that they introduce the provision of sure start, play park, health visitors to visit families with children just to make sure they are ok and even the parents gets vouchers for vegetables and milk as well as child benefit all from the every child matters act.

my sister aisha i sat down one day and i decided i dont want to read law any more that i want to read a course that puts me in a position of care, the reason is that i have seen how mothers and children suffer in nigeria and maybe if i do social work i might be able to help in my own little way either by working as a social worker in nigeria or work with people like you and try to fight the inequality we suffer today in nigeria.

aisha my sister i know this is not an easy task and if it was easy i would not even think of it, how do you make sense of a mother who earns 23,000 naira monthly and yet has children in the uni to take care of not only that he is got to pay is rents even though she is a graduate she cant even get well enough salary to look after their children and pay her rents let alone transportation. please if any one is reading this tell me why we will not have a generation of thieves and criminals. and yet you have people who have thesame numbers of head receiveing hundreds of millions where is the equality. so i think that the whole system is not fair.
this is where we social workers come in policy making et al.
we can not get those who read agricultural science, political science, banking and finance to sit down in one place called national assemblies and dictate what and what will not happen to our children. becos they dont even have a clue.
here in the uk every ministry have a child unit be it police, army, any thing you can think of. so i think we should be able to resisit some things that are happening and challenge them. enough is enough we must be able to represent our children in every level. people may start thinking that i have no idea what naija is like, i do know as i

Guy dey wey you dey. Here for naija we just dey socialise, no social worker

T@meD0:

lwkmd @ bold. . . funny but true.

@OP, please wherever you are, stay there o cause like others have mentioned, there's no such thing as social worker in naija.

even if there are, they are not any way encouraged or supported to perform their jobs. good luck sha.

Dis Guy:

Seems people are confusing social work- regulated by the government/law with charity work

people having pampers and milk in their locker doesn't sound like social work to me, sounds more like charity workers or perhaps individuals doing 'social' work

usewisdom:

WONDER SHALL NEVER END, Social Worker indeed in Nigeria,
That means Thunder go fall, ; D
Do you mean SOCIAL DRUNKER or SOCIAL WALKER?

I pray such name should sound & available in the jungle NIGERIALESS, LOL

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