- Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy
- The Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy has been in operation for over five months now and is filling an important need for the community. Even though we are still in the initial stages, the clinic is expanding its services and is growing busier by the day.
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas
- We took a trip to the northern province of Limpopo as we had been receiving requests for our programme of HIV/AIDS education from the schools there. One of our part-time volunteers comes from Limpopo, so he was very enthusiastic that we visit his own community.
- Sport Against Crime
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas On a recent visit to Limpopo we were able to spend time with some of the members of the Sport Against Crime youth group. There are 120 teenagers in the group, and they have been managing with only one football between them for several months!
- Cereal Banking
- We recently got involved with a “cereal bank” village program, which was the initiative of another local NGO. Cereal banking helps alleviate the serious food shortage in the months before harvest, caused by poor budgeting of food resources.
- More on Education Support Programmes
- An adequate education, from the foundation stages of early primary through secondary school, sets the tone for success and productivity in adult life.
- Personal Testimony from Suwaida
- My name is Suwaida Abubukar. I come from a small village called Jardarji, very close to Daura in Katsina state, Nigeria. Female education was not emphasized when I was growing up, so I got very little or no education. When I was 16 years of age, I got married to a man almost twice my age.
- Christmas/year-end party for orphanages and the disabled
- In conjunction with our Family Care office in Port Harcourt, which has a performance group for children, we organized a special Christmas party at the Enugu Cheshire Home for teenagers with polio. We also invited the three orphanages we work with in the region to attend.
- VVF Patient Support
- Vesico-Vagina Fistula (VVF) is a terribly dehumanizing condition caused by an obstructed labor. Many women with VVF are from poor backgrounds. Causes include early marriage, negligence, lack of antenatal care during pregnancy, and ignorance.
- Ibadan End-of-Year Programmes
- In Ibadan we checked on all our programmes and training courses that were running for the year, making sure that all was in order and ready to restart in 2007. We also held Christmas parties for the Ibadan School for the Deaf and a home for underprivileged, handicapped, and street children.
- More on Gwako School
- In the year 2001, our organization sent a team to survey Gwako village and other surrounding villages in Abuja. We discovered that many of the people living in these villages were Gwari farmers, who were systematically losing their farmlands to development.
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