OUR MISSION
To use Advocacy, Outreaches, Medicare support and strategic collaboration to reduce poverty and vulnerability to health problems and underdevelopment.
OUR VISION
To reduce poverty, support total well being of people in poor communities and foster sustainable development.
OUR OBJECTIVES
- To reduce poverty and enhance wellbeing via primary healthcare support
- To act as advocacy conduit for improvement in the lives of the poor.
- To provide food, clothing and Medicare for the poor and under-privileged person
- To make dedicated mobile clinic vehicles available to the poor communities in other to bring healthcare closer to the communities.
- To strategically enhance well being via collaboration towards promotion of community and public health support.
- To generally work with well meaning persons, agencies and institutions to alleviate poverty and promote wellbeing of the poor.
THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE
The Slum population in Lagos was estimated at 1.3M.
The Communities we serve have been identified as part of the major Slum Capitals of the world and include:
- Makoko
- Zion
- Orile Iganmu
- Olaleye
A Sneak Preview into One of Lagos Slum Cities – Zion Community, Iganmu.
Zion is located on the southern part of Iganmu, Lagos.
Traditionally, it was said to have been discovered by fishermen who settled on the banks of the river (now sand filled) more than a century ago.
With an estimated population of 20,000 adults (going by Nigeria’s population of 75 percent children, that will amount to 80,000 inhabitants), the area is densely populated and partly built on a refuse dump.
Social Life is almost zero as there is no any form of recreation center in the community except for the youths that engage in street carnival during the Christmas holiday.
The predominant occupations are Fish selling, bricklaying, carpenter, plumber and security guard.
The population is predominantly Christians and Muslims
Security: only neighborhood watch (vigilante) group is visible in the community
Education: there is no public school (primary nor secondary) in the community
Water: water hawkers are the only source of water available to the community as there is no public pipe borne water in the area.
Sanitation: the near zero level of sanitation coupled with no access to drinkable water is a major concern in terms of water borne diseases, malaria etc. there is therefore big concern for public health to avert an epidemic in future. There is no form of public waste disposal system in the community.
Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes started a healthcare intervention in 2011. We have been able to provide free treatment to about 1,500 people directly in the community (not counting those that come for our weekly clinic at another location). We also provide about 200 free Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets, Free no perishable food and clothing and to the communities.
OUR VOLUNTEERS
Join us as a medical or non-medical volunteer and make a difference in the lives of thousands. Your time and skills can help transform communities.
Summer Seabrook
Luca Treacy
Our President’s Message
I have had strong believe that we must be our brothers keepers. Children, women and others who have been afflicted by circumstantial situations. Because of these a vicious cycle have enveloped them: poverty leading to ill health and ill health further aggravating poverty.
The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Therefore, Total Health is the “the capacity of individuals, families, and communities to work together to transform the conditions that promote, in a sustainable way, their physical, emotional, economic, social, environmental and spiritual well being.
At Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes we seek to promote the Total Health of the communities we serve through active participation of Community Leaders, considering them our primary partners in improving the health of all the individuals and families within their communities.
According to the World Health Organizations, Nigeria health indices are very poor and among the worst in the world!
We must help the helpless among us!!!
For nearly four years, Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes have been changing lives and lifestyles of people living in poor communities. We desire to alleviate human suffering mostly attributable to ill health and poverty.
In Nigeria, Infant mortality and maternal mortality is one of the highest in the world. Hundreds of children, women and people have no access to medical services. Thousands of Children are dying daily from malaria and other preventable/curative causes.
A trip around these communities overwhelms you with sights of poverty, disease, malnutrition and hopelessness. These children and households desperately need medical care, so don’t let diseases and malnutrition take another child’s life. To make this worse, health infrastructure is poor.
Your gifts make so many wonderful things possible: With your help and support, Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes will be providing free monthly medical interventions in identified poor communities. We will also be giving out Clothing and Foodstuff like Rice to alleviate poverty and ill health.
Towards successful implementation of our resolve to reach more communities, we started raising funds towards the acquisition of a N15M Mobile Clinic. This will enable us provide good quality medical services. Join us in making this dream come through.
We need medical and non-medical volunteers, medicines, bags of Rice and other foodstuff, clothing and funds.
It is your willingness to help that will bring lifesaving hope and assistance at a time when needed most. Your contribution also goes a long way in helping the UN Millennium Campaign achieve goal of ending poverty by 2015.
Our Programs
Free Weekly Primary Health Care Clinic
Weekly every Thursday, we run a free clinic /primary health care support for the public. Our medical team attend to all persons especially children, women and the aged irrespective of their sociocultural and religious affiliations.
- On the average, 100 patients are attended to every Thursday.
- We have over 2000 registered patients (after one year of dedicated weekly primary healthcare support at our clinic)
The Food Program
We provide non-perishable food items as a strategic option to checkmate poor health- poverty vicious cycle
Outreach
We conduct several outreaches yearly. These outreaches were usually in collaboration with some partner agencies.
Our primary interventions were usually as follows:
- Free Primary Health Care inclusive of medicines
- We provide non-perishable food items as a strategic option to checkmate poor health- poverty vicious cycle
- Clothing
Stand Up Against Poverty Program
Since 2009, we have identified with the UN Millennium Campaign to End Poverty by 2015 through:
- Advocacy
- Provide Free Medicare
Most of these were done in conjunction with the United Nations Information Centre, Lagos including the September??? 2011 version.
OUR SCORE CARD
With the support and collaborative partnership of well meaning persons and responsive Health focused agencies / organization we have made remarkable achievements as follows:
- Over N8.5 million spent on treating patients with Malaria, Hypertension, Diabetics and Infectious diseases at both the weekly clinic and medical outreaches.
- Over 2000 doses of anthelmintic administered to children in living poor sanitation and environmental challenged communities.
- Over 5000 Children, women and others have benefitted from our vitamin supplements because of poor diet in such communities.
- We have also distributed over 1000 Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets to pregnant women and nursing mothers in the communities
- Over 10,000 people have benefit from our free medical outreach programs.
- Provided food and clothing to about 40,000 vulnerable children, individuals in these communities.
We Are Accountable
Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes is a registered non-governmental association. We have instituted processes and procedures, which consistently assure that your donations and monies are well spent and accounted for.
Become a Volunteer
The volunteer program provides avenues for people to invest their skills, minds, and hearts in support of vision. This allows us to free up resources to better meet the needs of the children, women, and men we serve.
By volunteering you have the opportunity to experience a sense of purpose in knowing you are touching the lives of the poor.
You can become a medical or non- medical volunteer depending our your skills.
How To Donate Products
Making a donation of pharmaceutical and medical products/supplies, raw non-perishable food
items, clothing and money are easy.
Donate Now
We will like to appreciate individuals and corporate organizations that have identified with the course of alleviating poverty and ill health for some of the world poorest communities in Nigeria.
To further ensure that all the gains of collective efforts are not lost, we solicit you continued support towards ensuring sustenance of goals until vision is firmly established.
All donations would be receipted and acknowledged with appropriate letters. Also regular updates would be sent to keep you at breast with how your money/donations work for you.
To send a donation, please contact us by email, sms, telephone or website:
The President
FOTA Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes Humanitarian Organization
40-42, Imam Daudu Street, Off Eric Moore Road, Surulere, Lagos.
+234 80????????
www.5loves2fishes.org.ng
RECENT CAUSES
Revd. Yomi Kasali, Senior Pastor, Foundation of Truth Assembly (FOTA), founded Project 5 Loaves 2 Fishes as a result of the vulnerability and plights of many people faced with threats and burden of poverty and vulnerability in some of the communities in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria that are renowned as one of the poorest in the world.
Project 5 loaves 2 Fishes seek to reduce poverty and engender well-being and productivity via palliative and promotion community and public health support.
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