CHRISTMAS FOR EVERY FAMILY; is an annual food-drive project where families are given the basic food items to celebrate in the festive season. A lot of the families in "Dustbin estate" survive on daily income generating activities, Christmas season is generally a low season economically in the area. As such, it is important for us that the families of these children get to celebrate this season and can feed.
CHRISTMAS HAMPER FOR EVERY CHILD: The hamper includes Christmas gift for every child and basic school supply, multivitamins and basic toiletries for the next academic session. Currently we are only able to do so annually during the holiday season, our intention is for the hamper to be a quarterly to ensure that children have the basics, ensuring good health.
LITERACY IS A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE; this was our pioneer project, the after-school-club relies on volunteer teachers, and it uses food as incentives to ensure the children come and the parents interfere because they get fed. One of the challenges we discovered working with these children over the years was, 98% of children in rural communities cannot read nor write, including those enrolled in formal education. Our main goal for is using food to boast literacy, ensuring that children in this community can read and write.
CHILD WELFARE; In Nigeria, primary education is free, according to UNICEF at the inception of free primary education, the rates of children attending primary education sky-rocketed, after a couple of years began to declined.Children were hawking on the streets, involved in child-labor as opposed to attending free primary education. What this means is that survival to the poor was more significant than education. Ideally, it should not be one or the other, for every child has a right to proper nutrition, medication, vitamins, vaccination, sanitation, clean water as children need all of these to enable them can enjoy benefits of free education. The literacy project highlighted the trade-offs between basis needs and access to education. This project relies on cash and in-kind-donation to ensure that children in the community have at least three balanced diet weekly.
CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION: This community lacks clean water, sanitation and toilets, as a result children are exposed to health challenges which affects their wellbeing. With the help of sponsors, this project has so far provided five toilets and four water-pumps for the community. For better coverage of the community, our goal is expanded the water pumps and build more toilets to accommodate the community and reduce health risk associated with the current realities. We need 20 more water pumps, toilets and bathrooms to accommodate the population in the community.

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