- IT Computer Training Center Lagos
- This month Family Care started construction on the IT/Computer/Vocational Training Center for underprivileged youths, teenagers, and women in Lagos State, Nigeria.
- More on Enugu State Training Centre
- Over the years, Family project Family Care Association has developed a range of capacity-building initiatives that contribute to sustainable development. These initiatives teach business skills, research, and communications.
- Aid Distribution & Charity Shows
- The Family International in Port Harcourt has endeavored to assist our community however possible. Throughout the last two years, various families who have fallen on hard times have received needed food and household items, along with finances for school fees and/or to help meet payments.
- Hands-On Humanitarian Aid
- During our latest humanitarian aid trip to Ibadan, Oyo State, we distributed 70 bags of rice to several centers and underprivileged families, as well as some very out-of-the-way hostels for cancer patients.
- Adult & Child Training Courses/Moral-Instilling DVDs
- For several years the popular children’s course—the STEPs Program—created by Aurora Productions, has been a wonderful teaching tool for many schools, Sunday schools, day care centers and families in Nigeria. It comprises two courses: Foundations of Faith and Character Building.
- 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.
- Clinic Update 2008
- Through the generous sponsorship of Small World and GOLF we have expanded the equipment at the Family Care Ikota Clinic in order to increase and improve the medical services provided for the community. We now have a complete dental unit, greatly increasing the dental procedures we’re now capable of.
- Ikota Community Clinic
- Family project Family Care Association sponsored construction, equipping, and commencing operations of a model free/subsidized healthcare clinic in Ikota community in Lagos state. We are working toward a plan to replicate this initiative in all six geopolitical zones of the country.
- Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy - April 2008
- Family Care Ikota Clinic and Pharmacy have been open for just over a year now and it has had a tremendous impact on the lives of the Ikota community as well as many others who have reached its doorstep.
- Free Health Care Project
- On July 13, 2008, a team of 70 doctors, general surgeons, gynaecologists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, dentists, counsellors, and logistical staff converged in Erema, Rivers State from Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin, Enugu, Abuja, Ibadan, and Abakaliki in Nigeria, as well as Ghana and South Africa,
- OML58 Free Medical Project
- The project itself was short and powerful, but it was the end result of weeks of many long hours of intense preparation. To start with, US$60,000 needed to be raised.
- More on Free Healthcare
- While a typical free healthcare project runs for a week, our large scale projects are the result of months of planning, administration, logistics, volunteer recruitment, and a tremendous amount of coordination.
- Ruth Speaks Out about Gwako School
- My name is Ruth and my husband is Joshua Abu. We both come from Ado and Apa local government, Benue state, Nigeria. I got married when I was 19 and my husband was 36. Both my parents and my husband's parents are very poor. My husband was married before with two children. His first wife passed away.
- 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.
- Ibadan HIV/AIDS Women Empowerment Program - June 2008
- Our recent trip to Ibadan was a monumental turning point in our Women’s Empowerment Program. Through our generous sponsors we have set up and opened four new shops for our HIV/AIDS Women Empowerment program.
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- Incentive Programme for Mothers with HIV/AIDS
- Once an expecting mother is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, she is taken for registration, which starts her on the necessary course of treatment to prevent transmission to the child.
- Ibadan HIV/AIDS Women Empowerment - March 2008
- Imagine seeing your future filled with hospitals, medical bills, and sickness and with no means to help yourself.
- 12 Foundation Stones Bible Course
- The Family International in Port Harcourt has been teaching the 12 Foundation Stones Bible Course for several years now; the aim of the course being practical application of fundamental Christian principles. The course runs for 6 months with classes taught on a weekly basis.
- "12 Foundation Stones" Training Courses
- Since the beginning of 2004, The Family International in Port Harcourt has been running the 12 Foundation Stones Bible study course.
- More on Bible Courses
- So far, volunteers have taught 123 classes to the 475 people enrolled in the course.Student reactions to Bible courses:
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Many thanks for the Bible courses! They are all well received.
- Annual Christmas Programme
- On the 12th of December 2010 The Family International in Port-Harcourt organized and hosted our fourth annual Year End/Christmas show for about 170 of our friends, members, supporters, and Activated! subscribers. This has been the largest show to date that we single-handedly organized.
- Activated Programme/Online mailings
- Activated! is a monthly Christian magazine which we have been distributing on a subscription basis in our city and in others for more than ten years now. The total number of subscriptions to date has topped the 3,000 mark.
- Life Caring Orphanage
- Recently we began working with the “Life Caring Orphanage”, which cares for orphans from babyhood until they are grown and able to care for themselves. We’ve recently delivered 13 brand new mattresses for the orphans and donated a freezer, and other food items.
- Christmas at an Orphanage
- During Christmas 2007, we participated in a Christmas program for an orphanage in Enugu State. The venue, food, and drinks we’re all donated by sponsors.
- 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.
- More on Oyo and Kaduna Dental Projects
- A team of six medical and coordinating volunteers set off to give free dental care to the awaiting beneficiaries.
- Ibadan Dental Project
- We recently carried out another small-scale healthcare initiative in Ibadan, Oyo State.
- Zaria update – Completion of VVF building and renovation of old VVF ward
- The VVF Vocational Training Center and Recovery Ward that we began building in October 2006 is now completed and up and running. Two of our volunteers spent a week in Zaria, where we completed the final touches on the building itself, as well as on the adjacent kitchen and bathroom.
- Medical Projects Move Forward
- Two ongoing medical projects sponsored by Family Care Nigeria have made significant advances in recent months.
The doctor’s residence behind the Family Care Ikota Clinic is now finished.
- 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.
- More on Vocation Development Initiatives
- Many graduates from the Family Care vocational training courses have gone on to open their own small businesses, or have pursued additional studies in the subject, some at university level.
- IT Training Center
- When the construction of Abuja began thirty years ago, thousands of people seeking employment made up the labor force that built this city. In Nyanya, FCT (Federal Capital Territory), a labor camp was built to shelter these workers and their families.
- 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.
