JUSTINA OVAT

Building Your Character and Skill Level

The JO Foundation was founded out of an inspiration to advance my passion for raising quality manpower.

What We Offer

We Equip you with Skills for the future

The JO Foundation was founded out of an inspiration to advance my passion for raising quality manpower beyond the Hospitality industry as I’ve been doing all through my career in the Hospitality industry, through my organisation, Calabar Hospitality House Limited (CHH).

Entrepreneurship

Exposing teenagers to Entrepreneurial skills through the Teens with Skills Project.

Employability

We provide opportunities for graduates to gain employability skills and volunteer for experience.

Enterprise Development

Helping potential female entrepreneurs refine and implement their ideas through the Ideation Series.

About Us

A Non-Governmental Organization

The Justina Ovat Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2019 with a keen interest for social development in Cross River State, Nigeria. The work of the Justina Ovat Foundation is not limited to entrepreneurship, employability and enterprise development but could also engage in other social activities that align with its vision. The foundation will advance in the coming years with some precise partnership activities and administrative structure as a project based development organization.

The Foundation has been working on various social development activities through competency building, gender equality and youth development so as to empower and ensure the security of the livelihood of youth, women and teenagers. At present, the Foundation is implementing various development programs with success in Cross River State.

Our Initiatives

The Projects We Carry Out Every Year

TWSP

Teens With Skills Project

TEENS WITH SKILLS PROJECT is a unique & powerful, personality, self-development leadership program exclusively designed for the ‘Young Adult’ between the ages of 15 to 18 years.
GEVEP

GEVEP

The Graduate Employability and Volunteer for Experience Program aims to engage young persons who graduated not more than 5 years to empower them to become choice candidates for job opportunities.
Ideation Series

Ideation Series

The Ideation Series is a one-day event that is held in commemoration of the international Women’s day. The one year ideation fellowship begins to count from that day.

Testimonials

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IDEATION SERIES 2.0 equipped me with ideas which helped in my passion for event management. I am elated to be part of the maiden edition. I look forward to gathering insights on how to successfully bring my event management ideas into reality.
Nancy Daniels
Event Manager
It was an honor to be part of the Ideation Series 2.0 as a Disruptive Innovator. It was an experience that i will never forget in a hurry. I attended the first series at a time of plenty confusion in my life and yes it lit a fire that has birthed today. I still have my notes.
CEO Crush
Disruptive Innovator
JoFoundation organized Teens with Skills project for teenagers at the age range of 13-20 and I was opportune to be enrolled in the project. I have been able to enhance my entrepreneurial life. I am also sure of becoming an outstanding entrepreneur tomorrow.
Asari Etta
Caterer

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