MCAAP

Maxor Centre for Alcohol Abuse Prevention

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Maxor Centre for Alcohol Abuse Prevention

MCAAP will present relevant statistics, research and survey results and whatever materials deemed necessary for purposeful alcohol policy formulation and effective regulatory measures aimed at reducing alcohol abuse. Our workshops, seminars and conferences are aimed at alerting government and the public of the great danger alcohol poses to public health and social order and that greater effort is needed to control its abuse.

Foundation Courses:

To ensure that our campaigns gains grassroot support, we have developed one-day seminars for the various category of persons in our communities. Such persons include: Community Leaders and Chiefs, CDC members, Youth Associations, Principals and Headmasters of Schools, Women Associations, Church Leaders and Head of Governmental Departments and Agencies.

Factsheets:

Participants in all our courses will receive information and factsheets that will enable them understand the problems associated with alcohol abuse.

Promotional items:

Facts available to us show that promotional items have been helpful as support tools in the campaign for the prevention of alcohol abuse and harms. These items include T-Shirts with appropriate slogans and messages; caps, memo pads and exercise books, stickers, etc.

School-based Preventive Strategies include:

        School-based Alcohol awareness campaigns and expositions
        School-based competitions
        Parents information packs
        Alcohol awareness campaigns at Parents-Teachers events
        Quiz competitions

Discussion Campaigns:

        TV Discussion Panels
        Radio and TV Experts Discussions
        Inter School Debates
        Essay Competitions
        Advocacy visits to Policy Makers and those who may influence policy

Workshops and Seminars:

        Regular Workshops on Alcohol Harm Prevention
        Regular Policy Advocacy Seminars
        Conferences on Policy Advocacy and Alcohol Harm Prevention

Research Resources:

      Provision of Library of books, videos, journals etc on Alcohol Harm
         Prevention and Policy Advocacy.
      Provide Internet Access to facilitate Research and Worldwide Communication
         on Alcohol  Harm Prevention and Advocacy.

Support and Sponsorship:

The above statements are the various agenda we have set as goals in our efforts to reduce alcohol abuse and its attendant harm in our communities. For them to become more than a set of pious aspirations will require a social movement of support, extending into the various governmental agencies and out into the wider society. Helping to create that wider support is the task we have assigned all concerned organizations and individuals. It is all about overcoming the major obstacles to alcohol harm prevention and alcohol control policy. Fighting to reduce alcohol abuse requires resources, which seem a never-ending problem. Ample resources are available but perhaps no sufficient allocation is made toward solving the problems of alcohol abuse. Alcohol should be seen as a poverty issue in developing countries such as ours. We do not have the resources of the industrialized nations. Therefore, it is more cost effective to improve health and spend on prevention rather than on treatment, which we cannot afford anyway.

Maxor Centre for Alcohol Abuse Prevention will continuously identify and connect individual initiatives and programmes, policy and alcohol harm prevention organizations to ensure the success of our projects. To achieve our goals, we need professional partners. We will not relent in networking with credible associates whose objectives are similar to ours.

It is pertinent to quote the words of Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden on the Swedish launch of international drug prevention fund – (THE GLOBE, NUMBER 2, 1994): “Great work is being accomplished by others in this field and the true dedication of many individuals, governments, inter-governmental organizations. Despite all efforts, the situation is not improving. Obviously additional efforts are required”.

There is no doubt that far more efforts are required. The alcohol companies thirsting for market have intensified their market expansion strategies. With huge financial resources at their disposal, they buy favourable portrayal of alcohol and alcohol culture in the news and entertainment media to convince the public, especially the youth, of the “merits” of alcohol drinking. The most reliable counter efforts are dedicated preventive campaigns - education, supported by government control measures.

Funding:

For the funding of our campaign projects, we will rely on sponsorship and donations from public and private sources and on the goodwill of concerned citizens of Nigeria and the International Communities.

Donations:

We shall accept T-Shirts, Caps, Factsheets etc.deemed universally suitable for Alcohol Abuse Prevention Campaign. Journals, Magazines, books banners, and posters which proved effective in your campaign should please be made available to us.

We will appreciate and accept your sponsorship to international conferences and seminars. Such interactions are exceeding valuable in formulating effective campaigns and in gaining moral support from persons and organisation in alcohol abuse prevention campaigns.