Summary: An innovative computer education program for young people. The program would focus on youth literacy on computer technology such as building of youths computer house where youths from under served communities comes to explore their own ideas on the world of computer age.
Required funding: $25,000
Items Required: 1. Computers, printers, fax machines and air conditioners 2. Office equipments and furnitures 3. Stationeries and infrastructural equipments
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Construction of a Health Center in Umuchoke-Nzerem
Summary: The construction of a new Health Center in Umuchoke-Nzerem who are living in a poverty stricken community where they travel 20 kilometers before location a health facility. The project will focus on improving survival and health for the most vulnerable children and women and poor villagers as well as promote community health awareness on nutrition, childhood illnesses and reproductive health and sanitation.
Required funding: $47,000 (estimated budget)
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Provision of a Backpack with HIV and AIDS prevention materials
Summary: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 39.5 million people in the world are HIV infected. More than 24 million of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria. As part of our HIV and Aids prevention awareness campaign in Nigeria, CHRIFACAF would like to provide children with awareness activities, backpacks, and educational materials. For just $25, you can make sure one child receives the backpack and lifesaving information. Our goal is to raise $37,000. so that many children can be helped.
Required funding: $37,000 ($25 per child)
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Help save the life of a starving child in Nigeria
Summary: In parts of Nigeria, children are so severely malnourished that they are on the brink of death. Sadly, they have received so little food during their lifetime that their fragile bodies can no longer derives the nourishment they need from regular meals. The only way to save them is to give them an eight-week cycle of special ready-to-use therapeutic food, which contains a whole range of vitamins and minerals in the right combinations and amount to help them recover. For just $820, you can save the life of a starving child by providing the full eight-week treatment with therapeutic food. For $15, you can give a child therapeutic food for one day.
Required funding: $820 (full treatment - $15 per day)
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Purchase Basic supplies for a rural Health center in Ehime Mbano
Summary: Because of high levels of poverty in Nigeria, rural health centers can not afford basic equipment and supplies for primary health care. This means that prenatal and postnatal services are not available and deliveries are often done at home without efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. For just $250, you can purchase equipment and supplies for a rural health center, helping them focus on early diagnosis of disease and prevention of maternal, infant, and child mortality.
Required funding: $250
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Help improve the capacity of orphanage caregivers in Nigeria
Summary: The Afor Enyiogu orphanage in Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria, houses 75 orphaned children. These children suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, making them vulnerable to health related problems such as anemia, vitamin A and iodine deficiency disorders, and chronic malnutrition. A gift of $400 will enable CHRIFACAF to distribute nutritious food to the children as well as teach the 10 orphanage volunteers how to modify the staple diet with fortified foods and how to recognize and treatment deficiencies disorders.
Required funding: $400
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Feed a poor school child in Umuezeala Owerre for a year
Summary: Because of insufficient nutrition, poor school children in Umuezeala Owerre lose concentration in school. This causes irregular attendance and a high drop out rate as they continue to fall behind. Ninety per cent of their parents earn less than $2 (#230) a day as day labourers or no doing something at all, which means that the children leave home without breakfast and suffer from chronic malnutrition. Your gift of $200, can feed one poor Umuezeala Owerre school child one meal a day for an entire year.
Required funding: $200
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Protect a Nigerian family from Malaria with a mosquito net
Summary: Almost six million cases of malaria are reported each year in Nigeria. The disease is a major cause of death in this African nation. It also contributes to the high level of poverty, especially in rural areas, by reducing productivity. Nearly the entire population of Nigeria is susceptible to the disease, including an estimated 3.6 million children under the age of five, as well as 900,000 pregnant women. In Imo State province, 18.1 per cent – or almost one in five-of children under five has contracted the disease. One of the easiest methods of prevention is to use an insecticide-treated mosquito net over the bed to prevent bite at night. For just $5, you can protect one family with a bed net. Our goal is to raise $35,000. so that many families can sleep in peace and safety.
Summary: Nigeria's poverty has been decimating educational efforts as children in many parts of the rural communities face incredible obstacles in getting an education. For example, in Ugiri, Imo State, Nigeria, a tiny village between two mountain ranges, many children must walk a mile or more to school. These children long to have their very own school kit, which includes a notebook, a ruler, pencils, a pencil sharpener, an eraser, paper, crayons, and safety scissors. But many parents have no regular income and cannot afford it. In highlands of Ehime, children have very poor school facilities. The roofs leak, the windows have no glass, the desks have holes in them or no desks at all, and there are no toilet available. During the raining season, the children are exposed to extremely cold temperature, so half of them drop out for those months. In Aba, thousands of vulnerable children live on the streets. Many of them have left school and beg for food, often falling into a life of crime. The incidence of HIV and AIDS has left scores of vulnerable children living in child-headed households, or staying with ailing parents or with poor relatives who struggle to support their own children. If these children do attend school, they lack food, school fees, and uniforms, which cause a high dropout rate. You can take a child off the streets, give an orphan a brighter future, or enable an illiterate child to learn to read and write.
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Help provide water for life in Nzerem, Nigeria
Summary: For many years now, the community of Nzerem has been suffering because of water. Located in steppe and desert terrain, Nzerem is one of the poorest community in Ehime Mbano in Imo State, Nigeria. The inhabitants have to obtain water from overflow collectors of small,unsanitary river. Hepatitis, Diarrhea, intestinal infections, and parasites kill many of the residents each year, 85 per cent of them "children". This causes a desperate search for water, especially for the women, girls, and boys, who are responsible for obtaining water for the household and livestock. Boys and girls have to drop out of school and walk eight to nine miles in deep down valleys a day to get water that the family needs. This project will help Provide a fully equipped deep water well/ borehole - including drilling, borehole casing, pump and installation that will provide good "clean water for life" to the people of Nzerem, thereby enabling an entire village to survive, plant crops, raise livestock, and have water to drink.
