Our History

The dream all began in 2001.

The Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association was registered as Incorporated Trustees August 2006.

When the Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association (GIEVA) started operation 2007 as non-governmental organization, we discovered that there were little or no platforms to inspire volunteers to engage in the noble cause of community-centered services for common good. Creating and reimagining a model to inspire the army of unemployed and under-employed university graduates, the GIEVA-Volunteers-Ambassador Program (GVAP) was started with the following objectives: • Engage the unemployed and under-employed armies of university, polytechnics, secondary school graduates in science, technology, engineering & mathematics (STEM) to acquire practical training and gain job skills through the volunteering scheme in readiness for effective workforce participation. • Mobilize the unemployed and under-employed university graduates towards green agro-allied innovation, clean energy, biomedical sciences, and information technology through appropriate mentoring and training in readiness for internship and gainful employments with partner organizations. The GVAP enables Volunteer -Ambassadors to share stories about GIEVA Organization’s current educational impacts and its potential for long term socio-economic transformation for common good. GVAP represents GIEVA Organization as volunteers and ambassadors to share this vision and inspire others to do the same. They are the ambassadors to call on and invite others for support. GVAP mobilizes and trains the children of the common farmers and extreme poor families in the underserved rural communities to engage in constructive education for change. GVAP is the CITIZEN Response Group – A Frontline volunteers for Common Good.

Daniel and Ruth Obaka founded and incorporated the Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association as a not-for-profit organization in Nigeria. It is with a vision for building a system that provides global platforms for young African leaders and entrepreneurs to achieve potential through educational services/programs, training to be free from system dependence and to become self-dependent. In their quest for realizing their dream they mobilized 16 (Sixteen) pioneer professionals/experts in education, health, environment, youth, social works, information & communication technology, legal, and management team to register the Association as a non-governmental organization (NGO), Nigeria Daniel and Ruth were motivated by the history of their lives to establish the organizations. Daniel Newton Obaka was born into a very poor family and his wife Ruth Obaka into a Muslim royal family. Daniel lost his father at the age of six. His mother, though illiterate and extremely poor, recognized the value of education and was not deterred by the immediate economic and social conditions and hardship. She sacrificed and provided the needed education for her son.

On the other hand, Ruth Obaka as a girl-child from a royal family with personal self-determination, overcame the obstacles that faced the girl-child education at that time and became a motivating factor and hope for other girls to access education and to obtain freedom from the manipulative “culture of male domination”. Their recorded “educational timelines” impassioned them to establish the GIEVA organization, a vehicle to enable them “give back to society”. With the ability to identify and inspire young men and women with the same backgrounds, Daniel and Ruth lead young African leaders to take a cause greater than self. Daniel and Ruth Obaka founded and incorporated the Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association (GIEVA) as a not-for-profit organization in Nigeria. It is with a vision for building a system that provides global platforms for young African leaders and entrepreneurs to achieve potential through educational services/programs, training to be free from system dependence and to become self-dependent. In their quest for realizing their dream they mobilized 16 (Sixteen) pioneer professionals/experts in education, health, environment, youth, social works, information & communication technology, legal, and management team to register the Association as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Nigeria.

Recognizing the evolving globalization and education as key for constructive engagement, Daniel and Ruth extended their passion to inspire young generations of African leaders to imbibe quality, integrity, and community spirit for public good. They are proud to see the Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association - a non-governmental/non-profit organization in Nigeria and the United States respectively evolve into a system that creates a shared – ownership mindset and develops shared – entrepreneurial and innovation values among the youth through education and networking. GIEVA Organization is an integrated non-for-profit organization anchored on sustainable development, partnership, and volunteerism.