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Project Updates
Due to continued success and high attendance, Family Care Nigeria has expanded the Family Care IT/Computer Training Center for the handicapped in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria.
Free Dental Project, Ikota Community Clinic
Family Care's Free/Subsidized Healthcare Centre situated in Ikota, Lagos made its medical debut with a five-day free dental programme dur­ing the last week of July in 2006. One dental surgeon, Dr.
Free Medical Projects
Family Care Nigeria continues free medical projects. In April, 2006 we organized and held a week-long, free healthcare project in Erema, a town in southeastern Nigeria. The staff of about 50 included members of the Family International and volunteer medical professionals.
Blankets and warm clothes for over 200 children
The winter had been particularly cold and we wanted to give all our Sunday school children something to keep them warm, many who attend barefoot and with ragged clothes. We identified the neediest children and gave out 15 warm, fleecy blankets. The next week we gave out fifty more, one to a family.
Investing in the Future
Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That is one of the foundation principles of our work with orphanages throughout Nigeria. These are bright children with the ability to succeed, given the opportunity and proper instruction.
Aid to AIDS Sufferers
Over the past eight years we have had an ongoing project in the Khayelitsha Township. We worked with a community health worker named Mildred and an architect named Mr. Smart who had volunteered his services to help the poor of this community build better housing.

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