The Lady Mechanic Initiative - "Welcome to the official website"

Our People

LMI TEAM
VOLUNTEERS


Mrs. Sandra Aguebor-Ekperouh Chief Executive Officer	Mr Henry Omoragbon National Coordinator	Ngozi Onochie Project coordinator


Ifechukwudi Loveth Nkechi Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Benin)	Chinyere Okereafor Administrative Officer	Nasamu Omon Josephine Project Co-ordinator (Benin)

For the management staff as well as trainees who had contact with her during her six months work as volunteer at LMI, Sarah Hindle is not a personality to be easily forgotten.

Between June and December 2007, gthe UK based guruof organisational development and fund raising was in Lagos on the sponsorship of Voluntary Society Overseas(VSO) to bring her skills and experience to bear in helping the initiative tackle the challenges of building relationships with individuals and corporate organisation that might be willing to identify with the lofty ideals of LMI by providing some of the much needed fundraising activities.

Between her arrival,work period at the LMI and departure, many within the LMI family, especially trainees were of the opinion that she left a good impression of herself and ultimately justified her role as a volunteer who put her very best into helping the LMI get better than she met it.

Sara Hindle(Portsmouth UK)
Volunteer

Nicole Van Dan Vegt from Netherlands is a long term volunteer with LMI through the support of VSO, in the capacity of organisational development advisor. The prupose of her placement is to support LMI in capacity building, documentation, networking, fundraising, project proposal, development and management of the centre.

Nicole has an educational background in Neuro Linguistic programming(Practitioner and Master), HBO Facility Management(BSc), Strategic Management, Project Management, Purchase Management, organised planning, Risk Management.

At LMI, her volunteer responsibilities are to:
Develop a viable strategic plan for organisational development
Develop project proposal for different donor both locally and internationally
Support in Fundraising
Keep all documentation for the centre
Develop a working plan and provide logistic for the activities of the centre
Monitoring and evaluation
Build capacity of staff to develop,prepare and submit reports monthly and quarterly for the board, both financial and activity progress
Support in networking with other service providers,government and corporate economy.

Nicole Van Dan Vegt (Netherlands)
Volunteer

Engr Russell Patrick McKeown BA (Hons), MMS Dip, IOSH Cert or "Russell" as he is fondly called is currently on a 2 year placement with the Lady Mechanic Initiative as a Workshop Trainer and Instructor after successfully completing selection and pre-country training in the UK.
He saw the LMI whilst “Googling” on the internet at his home in Spain and felt inspired to find out more due to the unique nature of this initiative and the work the NGO is doing in Nigeria. Six months later here he is in Lagos!

This is his first experience of Africa and Nigeria and everyone has made me welcome and is keen to share my experience and Knowledge. He spent 25 years in the UK working in the engineering industry initially as a mechanical engineer building special purpose machinery for a variety of industries, military aircraft such as Tornado & Typhoon and civil aircraft for Airbus Industries. He later went on to be an Industrial Engineer, a Development Engineer and finally a Technology Transfer/ Project Manager working with numerous countries throughout the world.

Russell says his hope is that when he finishes his placement in 2 years time he would have been able to make a difference to the organisation and to the lives of the trainee Lady Mechanics so that they will go on to lead prosperous happy lives, doing a job they enjoy.

Russell Mckeown (Spain)
Volunteer (VSO UK)

	Engr. Theodore Ekperouh is a volunteer that brings in a wealth of knowledge through countless years of practice in the automotive industry both locally and internationally. He has helped with maintaining a workable structure at the garage and at LMI.
Engr. Theodore Ekperouh (Sweden) Volunteer

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