About Us

We create an atmosphere of community where every member or ex-student feels happily at home and feels a sense of belonging. SONMIAA recognizes our Alma Mater as an institution of academic excellence dedicated to promoting and maintaining an environment that encourages their graduate nurse students’ collaboration with the school. 

We are committed to the advancement of membership collaboration through the formulation of strategies that foster charity engagements, volunteerism, and provide mentorship support to the students of our parent institution. 

SONMIAA gives back to society by providing nursing professional trainings materials, donation of equipment’s to upgrade nursing practice skill demonstration laboratory to meet best standards. We also aim to support updating our graduate nurses’ IT skills to meet and close the required global skill gaps of modern-day nursing.

Benefits of Alumni Membership

Our Support Systems: Joining SONMIAA gives you the opportunity to access our unlimited pool of nursing and midwifery graduates from the School of Nursing and Midwifery Ihiala. Our networkallows the college to benefit from the skills and experience of our graduates, providing support to our students, and the institution. Keeping our alumni and students well informed and engaged propels them to become our loyal supporters, and the best ambassadors who offer invaluable marketing promotion across our personal nursing and professional networks. 

Offering Our Expertise: Our talented SONMIAA members will likely have a wealth of experience and skills to share with current students and past graduates via online talks and meets. In certain instances, this may go even further with our alumni offering to practically support our student community in work placement and help them launch their career prospects. Alumni network engagement is beneficial and more likely to create future graduates who may find reasons and need to give back to society. 

Assistance in Employment: Using our alumni networking, current graduating students are getting enhanced student experience, which gives them a competitive edge in today’s challenging job market. Our pool of professional nurse’sand international contacts is one of the biggest sources of employment guidance and resource opportunities for graduating students seeking employability skills for absorption into reputable organizations. 

Mentorship and Scholarship: Our alumni play an active role in voluntary programs like students in their areas of expertise. We also play a significant role in contributing scholarship funding to deserving students.