The Exceptional Child Care Initiative (ECCI) are cognitive potentiators who try to improve children’s thinking skills by using everyday activities in a creative way to inspire fun, intellectual productivity and worthy memories. We aim to create a society of children where the lids of limitations are taken away to let the exciting world of WHY’s fly out.
Children are like unexplored continents. But unlike continents, we need them to happily hold our hands and guide us to their hidden treasures. ECCI boosts the child to stretch out his/ her hand and stimulates an adult to grab that hand and together, exceptionality is created!
Established in 2012, ECCI’s aim is to collaborate with communities in the establishment of cognitively structured recreational centers. In addition to community mobilization, ECCI also provides human and material resources that ensures sustenance of these recreational cognitive centers.
Our Vision
Is to equip a Nigerian Child with the requisite cognitive skills that would enable him/her be a socially responsible adult.
Our Mission
- Is to contribute to the creation of a memorable childhood for children.
- Create an avenue for the identification and cultivation of multiple intelligence in a child.
- Preoccupy the children and reduce conduct disorders.
- Develop children to be enthusiastic and imaginative readers.
- Expose the Nigerian Child to requisite etiquette and problem solving skills to enable him/her be a socially responsible Nigerian adult.
Our Founder
Dr Onyema Chidubem Abazie is a Nigerian born psychiatrist, retired military personnel and entrepreneur. She commenced her professional career in 2003 with the Nigerian Air Force, voluntarily retired in May 2018 as a senior officer with the rank of Wing Commander. Onyema is the first female Consultant of the Nigerian Air Force. Following her retirement, she stepped into the Board of New Rivoc Limited, a manufacturing firm in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria where she also serves as the Executive Director. She is also on the Board of Strides Energy and Maritime Limited.
She is an alumnus of University of Benin. Had her post graduate studies in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. She has attended numerous military courses notable among which are Junior Staff Course in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna and Next Generation of African Leaders at the African Centre of Strategic Studies Washington, United State of America. She is a member of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria, Association For Child And Adolescent Psychiatry And Allied Professionals in Nigeria as well as the Nigerian chapters of African Centre of Strategic Studies and Employee Assistance Programme Association.
Dr Abazie is married with four children. She is an avid reader and has an intense passion for human capital development. She believes in the diversity of human personality and is vested in ensuring that this divergence is not stifled in childhood.
Aside from her biological children, she has been a surrogate parent to many children as well as worked with those with special needs. Most of these children have grown up to be confident, self -motivated, self-driven adults who have embraced their individuality and are tolerant of others.
Board Members
Tracy Adole – Vancouver, British Columbia
Tracy is a Certified Project Management Professional and innovative organisational leader in program management, research and development, science-policy integration and stakeholder management. With over 12 years working experience using data and novel techniques for strategic planning and decision-making, Tracy has worked with communities, industries, non-governmental organizations, government institutions and top-rated researchers at national and international levels. She is highly skilled in building relationships and creatively bringing people together to achieve a common goal.
Tracy has a PhD in Geography and Environment from the University of Southampton, UK, and currently working as a Physical Geography Instructor at Coquitlam College, BC. She is very passionate about finding solutions to real world problems using data, technology, and partnerships. Tracy’s hobbies are playing the piano and chess.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyadole/