Every language deserves a written word.
Ubandawaki Redemptive Intervention Initiative partners with communities in Niger State, Nigeria, to build orthographies and dictionaries for languages that have never been written down, then carries that work into education, livelihoods, and health.
Niger State
Rijau LGA, Nigeria
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Areas of focus
Our Vision
To build resilient communities that are educated, self-reliant, spiritually grounded, and equipped to drive sustainable development for future generations.
Our Mission
To equip communities with the knowledge, resources, and opportunities needed to overcome poverty, preserve their linguistic heritage, access quality education, and build sustainable livelihoods through locally owned, community-led initiatives.
Four areas, one purpose.
Language & Literacy
Developing orthographies and dictionaries for unwritten languages, alongside the people who speak them.
Education
Building access to quality schooling and learning materials rooted in each community's own language.
Livelihoods
Equipping families with the skills and resources to build sustainable income for the long term.
Health & Wellbeing
Caring for physical and mental well-being so this work reaches the whole person, not just the page.
What this looks like on the ground.
A language documentation workshop with community language committee members.
Pupils at one of the schools URII supports in Rijau LGA.
The URII field team with community partners after a training session.
Community-led, from the first conversation.
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Listen & partner
We enter a community by invitation, and spend time learning the language, needs, and priorities directly from the people who live there.
2
Build together
Working alongside community members, we co-develop a writing system, a dictionary, and locally owned programs, never imposed from outside.
3
Hand over ownership
Tools, training, and leadership pass to the community, so the work continues and grows long after our involvement.
Help write the next chapter.
Every gift and every hour helps a community turn its spoken language into a written one, and its written word into education, income, and health.