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Community Development Service (CDS), as one of the cardinal points of the National Youth Service Scheme, has become very important in our National life, because it has allowed several like-minded Youths to contribute immensely to their country in the area of community development.

CDS is one of the four cardinal programmes of NYSC in which corps members contribute positively to the development of their host communities throughout the period of National Service. It is worthwhile mentioning that since its inception in 1973, the National Youth Service Corps has been making great contributions in the social, political and economic transformation of the nation. In recent times, the scheme has been in the vanguard of the nation’s drive to correct the imbalance in our rural-urban development through the various community development programmes executed by corps members. These programmes have revolutionized our communities in the areas of education, health care delivery, agriculture, communication, infrastructure, technology, economic empowerment, poverty eradication, social service and above all national consciousness and socio-cultural regeneration. 

It is against this backdrop that the Charity and Gender CDS Group, Kano State Chapter, which is an arm of the National Youth Service Corps, has taken it upon itself and working tirelessly to improve live(s) through charity and gender equality and empowerment sensitization, with voluntary services to humanity. The Corp members in this noble CDS group are so motivated by this and have accepted to carry out our mandate with a committed and sincere heart.

The Charity and Gender CDS group is made up of two (2) Batch A 2015 and Two Hundred & Forty-One (241) Batch B 2015 corps members serving in Kano Metropolis. We meet every first, second (i.e. Planning Committee) and last Thursdays of each month. And so far, we have enjoyed smooth sail in our meetings and our envisioned activities which would start its effect come next month (March, 2016) through the cooperative attitude of our members, schedule officer and other related parties. We believe in this unique CDS group that “our service to Nigeria is incomplete without our service to humanity”.