Welcome To HEPAN :: Home Economics Professional Association of Nigeria (HEPAN)

Address by the president

Prof. Theresa Nkiru Meludu

Welcome address by the President: HEPAN

I am most delighted to welcome everyone to Home Economics Professional Association of Nigeria (HEPAN) managed and administered by Home Economics Council of Nigeria (HECON). Home Economics Council of Nigeria (HECON) founded in the year 2000 in preparation for the XXth World Congress of International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE) held in Africa (Lagoon Accra, Ghana). HECON is the administrative Manager of the association comprising the Trustee members and the Executive body that manages Home Economics Professional Association of Nigeria (HEPAN) as obtained and addressed in other profession. HEPAN comprises all Home Economics Professional and Practitioners existing in Nigeria and Presidents of all other associations of Home Economics as members of the executives.

VISION AND MISSION OF HEPAN

Home Economics Professional Association of Nigeria (HEPAN) is registered with the corporate affairs commission under the companies and allied matters Act No. 1 of 1990 Part C, to collaborate with all Home Economics organizations and associations in Nigeria for the purpose of delivering the object of the mission for which Home Economics stands as a Professional and Subject discipline. It takes into cognizance all the perspectives of Home Economics as primarily concerned with strengthening family relationships among individuals, households and communities. HEPAN has a Board of Trustees and Legal Executive called Home Economics Council of Nigeria (HECON).
The functions of HEPAN includes but not limited to harnessing the activities of Home Economics in Nigeria to ensure that the discipline receive renewed attention from the Federal, State, and Local government such that individuals, families and communities feel the attraction and impact of Home Economics professional practice both within academia and the environment.
Home economics is empowered through research, training and development to lift up the images of professionals and practitioners as a way of promoting leadership, mentoring and possible linear progression. It is the view of HEPAN, that members become professionals by practice and exhibit the characteristic dynamics of a Home Economics Professional at all levels.

THE VISION

To provide opportunities through practice, research, professional Read More

development and inter dependency that lead to improving the quality of everyday life for individuals, families and households both in Nigeria and the global communities

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF HEPAN

The mission of Home Economics Professional Association of Nigeria (HEPAN) is to provide a forum for all Home Economists in Nigeria to develop and express the Home Economics concerns for individuals, families and households at all levels and beyond and collaborate with IFHE in association with United Nations and among other international non - governmental Organizations whose interests parallel those of Home Economics. HEPAN is also in collaborations with Federal Ministry of Education (NERDC), National Commission for Universities (NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), NERDC, NESTLE, WAMCO-CAMPINA PLC and others.
The ultimate goal is the improvement of the quality of everyday life for individuals, families and households through the management of human and non-human resources.
Its Aims shall be:

1. To promote human rights and the universal values of households and families as environments within which individuals are assisted to reach their full potential and to acknowledge their global interdependence.
2. To promote awareness that
1. 1. families and households are the prime nurturing environments for every human being, and
2. 2. mental, physical, psychological and emotional family well-being is the basic infrastructure for all other forms of social and economic development.
3. To emphasize the social, economic and environmental impact of the management of every day life of individuals, families and households.
4. To promote the concept of families and households as operating within a larger social, economic and physical environment with a myriad of exchanges between individuals and these larger environments on a daily basis.
5. To press for a recognition of the need for education for home and family life in all of the above areas for all age levels and in all societies.
6. To develop positions on issues within the focus and expertise of Home Economics and to emphasize the importance of these at the local, regional, national and international levels.
7. To support and cooperate in action taken by other organisations in respect of social issues of concern to the membership and the focus of HEPAN.
8. To support research in areas relevant to Home Economics (individual, household and family issues related to the satisfaction of physical and psychological needs) which expand the understanding of the ecological view of individuals, families and households in the larger environment. Read Less

Address by the president

Prof. Theresa Nkiru Meludu

Welcome address by the President: HEPAN

VISION AND MISSION OF HEPAN

THE VISION

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF HEPAN

The Team

Council Members

Prof. Theresa Nkiru Meludu

Prof. Patricia Etuna Mbah

Prof. Lillian Salami

Mrs. Tolu Kunle-Agboluaje

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Address by the president

Prof. Theresa Nkiru Meludu

Welcome address by the President: HEPAN

VISION AND MISSION OF HEPAN

THE VISION

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF HEPAN

The Team

Council Members

Prof. Theresa Nkiru Meludu

Prof. Patricia Etuna Mbah

Prof. Lillian Salami

Mrs. Tolu Kunle-Agboluaje

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