After winning Covenant University Enactus team awards these past 3 years, the PET City project has shown its viability and ingenuity by bagging a $2,500 grant award from the Ford Fund for their performance at the Ford College Community Challenge.
The Enactus CU project titled "PET City" emerged as one of the top 4 projects for the 2022 Ford College Community Challenge (Ford C3), funded by Ford Motor Company. The Enactus Covenant Team received $2,250 USD in grants to enable them to successfully implement the project and ensure that key project activities are carried out and results recorded in readiness for the planned project site visitation and impact assessment.
The competition is an international grant competition that empowers college students to envision and lead positive change within their communities. It promotes innovative student-led projects that tackle pressing local issues related to "building sustainable communities." Winning teams receive funding from the Ford Fund to implement their projects, often in collaboration with local organizations.
The program was initially launched in the United States in 2008 and has since expanded to 11 additional countries: Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico.