PROGRAM DIRECTOR USA/NIGERIA
Francia Udisi is a Bayelsa State indigene from Odi, in Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA. He is a resident in Philadelphia and an USA citizen. He has been our USA/Nigeria Director since 2006 working directly with Gordon Abiama who is our Director for Nigeria. His participation and expertise has been instrumental to the successes of our Nigerian projects such as the sending of medical supplies and books worth over $5Million dollars to the Niger Delta.
His abilities adept at donation project management, professional employment/ student counseling, job recruitment of young university graduates and secondary school leavers for multinational oil and gas companies as well as into universities and banks, especially the Oil Companies. He has successfully organized a major fund drive on behalf of AllState Trust Bank in 2007 in the USA, raising up to $US 1 million for the bank capitalization in Nigeria.
. He is also adept at donation project management, professional employment/ student counseling, job recruitment of young university graduates and secondary school leavers for multinational oil and gas companies as well as into universities and banks, especially the Oil Companies.
Partnering with Pennsylvania Army National Guard at Aramingo Recruiting Office to assisting and working with National Guard to provide both Career Employments and Financial Aid to young Americans and Residents to attend Collegesand Universities.
He had successfully organized a major fund drive on behalf of AllState Trust Bank in 2007 in the USA, raising up to $US 1 million for the bank capitalization in Nigeria.
• Member- Nigeria Federal Government Vision 2020/20 “Business Support Group” setup in 2009 under the leadership of Alhaji Murtallab. He is a vociferous voice in IYC, INC and the larger Ijaw Nation.
• He is the Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the PDP National Rebirth Bayelsa Branch Rep in USA.
• He is the Coordinator of Niger Delta Employment Database Initiative an NGO set up to collaborative partner with MNOC for employment of young Niger Delta university graduates and Secondary School Leavers increasing minority Ijaws Diversity in SPDC with a staff strength of 8,000 from low 3% to 7% in 2007; Member - Bayelsa State Diaspora Contact & Mobilization Committee.
• Collaboratively partnering the Niger Delta University (NDU) along with Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for the recruitments and admissions of Bayelsa State and Niger Delta citizens getting in-state charges and tuition fees instead of out-of-state or international tuitions fees and charges. Also partnering with Niger Delta University (NDU), Oil and Gas Companies in the Niger Delta region among others, for research and development in Geological and other scientific fields.
• Appointed as a member of Bayelsa State Government Diaspora Mobilization and Contact Committee in May 2013, by His Excellency Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, Governor of Bayelsa State.
• Appointed as the Foreign/Overseas Business Development Representative of Bayelsa State Maritime Academy in October 2013 by Rear Admiral W. G. Yanga, the Rector of the Academy.
Geologist (Environmental/ Petroleum)
- Temple University 1983 graduating class, and was a pioneer student of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), but now the Federal University of Petroleum Affairs, at Effurun.
• Project Consultant at Franarp Technologies.
• Project Coordinator (Nigeria/USA), Earth Right Institute from 2004 to Present.
• Coordinator of Total Global Peace Transformation Initiative for Students and Faculty Exchange Programs.
• Environmental Geologist in Concept Group International; Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
• Laboratory Technician at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Federal Secretariat, Port Harcourt in 1976 to 1977.
• Francis Kabiowei Udisi was Public Health Sanitarian (Health Inspector) Environmental Health Services; the Office of Food Protection/ Environment Engineering in the City of Philadelphia.
---Fundamentally, to utilize my many years of training in oil and gas educations and numerous years of exposures and experiences in advanced countries and economies to setup employment database/databank of qualified candidates of Nigerians in Diaspora for Environmental Remediation of the chronically and grossly Polluted Niger Delta Oil & Gas rich region. That was the reason one was originally sent abroad on Scholarship award Program in the 1970s to be trained and to return to help in rapid technological transfer in the development Nigeria. But more than 35 years after, we are yet to make any progress therefore “this Meeting” would give one the opportunity to make this point and build upon that developmental strategy for environmental clean ups and employment provisions.
