About Chanmus
Christian and Muslim Inter-Religious Peace Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization partnering with a range of local and international organizations to cater to widows, orphans, less privileged children, and girl-child, and also to ensure that youths with limited resources have access to opportunities needed to succeed in life.
The foundation is named; CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM INTER-RELIGIOUS PEACE FOUNDATION (CHANMUS)
CHANMUS is focusing on reducing poverty to the minimum by providing tools for sustainable change to the people most vulnerable to violence, Cultism, kidnapping, hunger, rape, deprivation, and diseases.
We concentrate on youths and women, by improving their basic educational levels, increasing their access to quality health care, and spreading economic opportunities to them.
We train and empower women, youths, and the stigmatized.
We practice and preach the doctrine of peaceful coexistence therefore; CHANMUS does reconciliation, dispute resolution, conflict management, and conciliation.
We anticipate national and International government’s support and policies that are favorable in addressing the underlying causes of poverty.
We organize peace conferences, workshops, and seminars for youth and women in the country.
Given the aforementioned; the foundation has trained over 10,000 (Ten thousand) youths and women and has given a scholarship to many sons and daughters in the local societies.
CHANMUS is birthed as a succor to our ailing nation, Nigeria. We have intervened and resolved several communal crises and to our credit also, are several homes reconciled.
We have offices that cut across the six (6) geo-political zones of the country and have other members outside Nigeria.
The foundation started on the 25th of May, 2011 as an unregistered entity and got a state license and registration to operate in March, 2013. The foundation finally got registered as a corporate body under the provision of the Corporate Affairs Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 18th day of November 2015. CAC/IT/NO 82598
Vision Statement
To promote peace and patriotism among Nigerian citizens to promote a non-violent society.
Mission Statement
Seeing our dear country Nigeria coming together as one indivisible entity irrespective of our religious and ethnic differences; and also to create roots of trained women and youth to become entrepreneurs that will contribute to the Nigerian economy
What we do?
Vocational and Entrepreneurial Training
Financial Empowerment
Negotiation, Reconciliation, and Arbitration
