UKF now accepts online donations!!

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to inform you that our hardworking IT guru, Sheriff has updated our website to enable us accept online donations! You can now send your donations using your visa, mastercard, discover or paypal account from your PC through a safe and secure medium.

Bookmark the link below and start supporting the kids you love!

http://www.unitedforkidsfoundation.org/supportus.html

Please be our guest!

Dear Friend and Partner,

On behalf of the trustees of United for Kids Foundation, I will like to invite you to come on a very special journey with us. We are currently obtaining quotes to do major structural (including flooring, roofing, plumbing etc) and furniture repair work at 4 public primary schools in the Somolu area in Lagos. This is a very ambitous project, but we know we can fund it if you send us your donations for the quarter/year, so we are inviting you to be a part of this "restoration" work by reaching out to us today.

We maintain a GT bank account (Acct no -208 712075 110), a NATWEST -UK and a Wachovia -USA. Please send an email to teefaj3@yahoo. com if you are in the UK. You may send a cheque to United for Kids Foundation at PO BOX 18022, Middle River MD 21220 if you are in the USA or send your funds via www.paypal.com to unitedforkids@ gmail.com.

Please feel free to invite friends and family to be a part of this great 'event', and know that when next it rains in lagos, there will be many children in school under a safe roof because of YOU!

Thanks and God bless!
Ganiyah 'Tope Fajingbesi

2008 Financial results and donors list

Dear Friends,

Thank you very much for helping us record another successful year, because of the wonderful people listed below, we were able to spend over N4.7 million on various life changing projects, this made the year 2008 our most expensive year to date, God bless you all. For the donors we missed in 2008, we appreciate your support in previous years and really felt your absence in 2008, please come back to the fold and help us make the lives of the kids we support more hopeful.

We are anticipating many good changes and projects in 2009, and we will keep you posted as things unfold in the coming weeks, but meanwhile, please join our first visit to the Ikeja General Hospital Children's wards (LASUTH on Oba Akinjobi way) on Saturday January 17th 2009 at the usual time of 9am.

Thank you very much and may God bless you.

2008 Financial Summary:

Total Naira equivalent of donations - N4,938,014.00

Expenditure (in Naira):
Bab Es Salaam Orphanage (N224,000.00)
Children Transit Home (119,710.00)
Hearts of Gold Hospice (95,000.00)
Ikeja General Hospital (1,209,730.00)
UKF Education Project:
--Adebule Primary School (80,000.00)
--Wesley and Wright Primary School (975,380.00)
--UKF Back to School Program (1,448,300.00)
Patients' (Prescription) Assistance (194,473.50)
Paypal/Bank charges (38,788.54)
Staff Costs -Salaries (240,000.00)
Staff Costs - Internet access (80,000.00)
UKF Website development (6,525.00)
US PO BOX 18022 (8,120.00)
List of donors:
Abdullahi & Latifah Sanusi
Adabake Bosede
Adebisi Azeez Adetayo
Adekalu Balogun
Adesola Adegbesan
Adesuwa Dozie
Adesuwa Ladoja & Family
Adetaiwo Ademuyiwa
Amani Momodu
Anonymous donors
Anu T. Amusan
Aramide Paul-Taiwo
Ayo Adedoja
Ayo and Aminat Salami
Ayotunde Oyewole
Azizat O. Gbadegesin
Babatope Dada
Babatunde Ojo
Bashirat Yinusa
Bidemi & Sheriff Oyekanmi
Bilkis Belgore
Bimpe Oropo
Bint Mohammed
Biodun Aina
Biola Bada
Bola Kasumu
Bolaji & Tamara Oyejide
Bolaji Azeez
Bukky & Bukky Adeniran
Bukky Olagunju
Busola Adeniran
Charles Igolo
Chioma Obiakor
Dada Olabode
Dayo Sarumi
Dele Onabokun
Dimeji & Mowunmi Jenmi
Dunmoye Ogunsola
Edith Udeagu
Fatai Ajidagba
Femi & Ngozi Adebiyi
Femi & Tolulope Jaiyeola
Fieldco Limited
Folake Olatunji
Funke Adelabu
Funmi Omole
Ganiyu & Tola Tiamiyu
Hadiza Osori
Hafiz Bidmus
Hafiz Momodu
Hamid Bidmus
Haviz Adeojo
Ibraheem Alabi
Jadesola Ademiluyi
Jemitola Taitai
Jibola Olomola
Julie Vishnyakov
Kabir & Lanre Kasim
Kolade Kasim
Kunle Akintayo
Lanre Arikenbi
Lanre Famakinwa
Lanre Shasore
Lara Akinsanya
Lekan Oloyede
Linda & Osayi Ikponmwosa
Lola Idudu
Lola Ojikutu
Mama (Mrs) Adewale
Mayowa Aregbesola
Medinat Titilope
Meire Akpaibor
Mohammed Adeola Alabi
Moji Oladeji
Momoh Folashade Hummulkhayr
Moriam Godo
Motunrayo Akinmade
Mr & Mrs. Olanrewaju
Mrs Silifat Yinusa
Mrs. S. F Adebiyi
Muslimat Aliyu (Mum)
Mustapha Momodu
Muyiwa & Biola Odununga
Nike Adepegba
Ninilola Sodipe
Niyi Yusuf
Odunayo Fadahunsi
Okoh Ehimhen
Olumide Ambali
Oma Obu
Omobola K. Ositade
Onyinye Jane Hemeson
Oyin & Jide Wintoki
Ruka Salami
Rukayat Adejumo
Sade Medeyinlo
Segun & Tope Sowande
Shakirah Subair
Shakirat Raji
Shukrat O. Olatunji
Sola Adewale
Sulliat & Shakir Olakukan
Temitope Har-Yusuph
Temitope Yomi-Adeyemi
Teslim Buraimoh
Tola Ositade
Tolu Olupona
Tope Fajingbesi
Toritse Orubu
Tosin & Yemi Okojie
Toyin Gbagi
Tunde Ladipo
Ufuoma Obioma
Ugochi Apakama
Ummkhayr Orulebaja
Uzor Okeke
Wale Adeniran
West African Portland Cement Company - WAPCO
Yeside Kazeem
Yetunde Adeshina
Yewande Daniel - Ayoade
Yinka Abiru
Yomi and Bimbo Bello
Zebra Living

Pictures of UKF's 2008 Xmas and 1429 Eid Kabir celebrations

Dear Friends,

The link below contains pictures from UKF's1429 Eid Kabir and 2008 Xmas celebration for kids in 4 Lagos orphanages.

http://www.kodakgal lery.com/ ShareLanding. action?c= 16qe66wt. 4aylxvxt&x=0&y=-8zp78t&localeid=en_ US

We will like to thank everyone who made our dream of putting smiles on the faces of these children come true again this year, our sincere appreciate goes to our trustees -Nini, Amani, Bimbo, Khadijah, Adesuwa, Ngozi and Tope who helped plan this event. To Ngozi, Ajibola (baba Ibeji) & Adesua D for their generous cash donations towards the xmas party, Mrs. Laja & the crew at Hearts of Gold Hospice (for the venue, canopy, chairs and tables), Enegha for the contents of the party packs, Onome O and her business partner for the arts and crafts section of the party, Viola for cash donation towards the T-Shirts, Iyabo A for the cake, Funke B and her staff Seyi (event coordinators, who were extremely useful), Mrs. Bucknor for the bags for the party packs, Alhaja Ganiyah Adebanjo (for always anchoring our Eid parties at such a huge discount) and Ganiyah (the caterer for the Eid party). However our biggest thanks goes to YOU, our consistent donors, without your support we would not dare to dream about these things.


The mission is not accomplished yet, we have a lot more to do, with your time and money, we will keep matching forward; Please subscribe to our mailing list by sending a mail to firstorphanage-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, keep spreading the word about us and please keep the donations coming.

We pray that we can do bigger and better things for the kids in Nigeria in 2009 and beyond. Thank you very much and may God bless you all in 2009 and beyond!

UKF's Ist Annual Back to School Drive - See Pictures

Its amazing how much $6.25 can do to a child's life. We are happy that our dream of sending almost 2000 kids back to school with hope and love became reality on Sept 20, 23, 24 and 25th. many thanks to the few trustees and staff who made this happen, to KPMG for allowing their employees do this as community service during working hours and to our generous donors. Our hearts are filled with joy and we hope to continue to bless the kids and staff at these public schools by the grace of God.

See more pictures at the following link:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=16qe66wt.5yd4k61h&x=0&y=eyfe1b&localeid=en_US

A Moment like this, some people wait a life time. Don't miss it!

Dear Friends,

Please join us as we happily light up in the hearts and eyes of 2,000 children on Saturday September 20th and from Tuesday September 23rd to Thursday September 25th 2008.

- We will begin at the Ikeja General Hospital Children’s wards (Oba Akinjobi Way, GRA Ikeja, Lagos) on Saturday at 9am with our monthly hospital outreach program. Please come and help us distribute groceries, supplies, hugs and smiles to the children on admission there.
- At 11am on the same day, we will kick off our first annual “UKF – BACK TO SCHOOL” program at the Bab Es Salaam orphanage (14/16 Joel Ogunnaike St, GRA Ikeja). Each child in ECCD and Primary school will receive a school bag, notebooks, pencils, crayons, pens, erasers and rulers. Each child in primary 6 will also receive a mathematical set.
- On Tuesday, we will continue our BACK TO SCHOOL program at Adebule Primary School (1 Olufeko close, Fola Agoro Shomolu Lagos) and the FOMWAN School (17 Abati Street, Akowonjo Alimosho Lagos) at 10:30am.
- On Wednesday, we will move to Wesley and Wright primary schools (12/14 Emmanuel Street, off Palm grove bus stop, Shomolu, Lagos) at 10:30am.
- Our final stop for this year’s “UKF - BACK TO SCHOOL” program will be at the Children’s Transit Home (11/13 Ojerinde Street, behind LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos) at 10:30am.

We will like to thank the trustees and staff who have worked tirelessly to make this a reality, and a huge thank you to KPMG Professional services for allowing their employees to participate in the distribution activities…..and to you too, for making this happen through your donations (this program is costing us N1.5million Naira). Its not too late to sign up to join these activities, we know that the moment each child opens their gift will be like a dream come true, a moment many economically disadvantaged children will only dream about.

On a final note, we have exhausted all our funds with the huge projects we have undertaken this year, but we still have a lot more to do: our monthly visits to the hospital, our Xmas and Eid-Kabir parties for the orphanages are still coming up, so please help us by sending in your donations and also spreading the word about our foundation.

Thank you very much and God bless you all!

N2.5 Million Year to Date... from only 36% of donors!

Dear Friends, On behalf of the trustees of UKF, I will like to present our financial results for the first half of 2008. We have realized ~N2.5m from only 93 of UKF's 256 members, we can only imagine how much we will have to work our 'miracles' if we had 100% participation, we therefore hope and pray that you will defy the economic down turn and spare a change to help us heal Nigeria and indeed the World, one child, one heart and one smile at a time. We are planning bigger and better things for the 2nd half of 2008: our plans include a big back to school drive for kids at FOMWAN, Adebule, Wesley and Wright public primary schools and the Children's Transit Home. We also hope to continue building on our successful dialogue with the Lagos State Government to set up a comfortable location for the CTH kids. Please send us your donations and spread the message of UKF( www.unitedforkidsfoundation.org).


Year to date list of donors:
Abdullahi & Latifah Sanusi
Adabake Bosede
Adekalu Balogun
Adesuwa Ladoja & Family
Amani Momodu
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anu T. Amusan
Aramide Paul-Taiwo
Ayo Adedoja
Ayo and Aminat Salami
Ayotunde Oyewole
Azizat O. Gbadegesin
Babatope Dada
Babatunde Ojo
Bashirat Yinusa
Bidemi & Sheriff Oyekanmi
Bilkis Belgore
Bimpe Oropo
Bint Mohammed
Biodun Aina
Biola Bada
Bola Kasumu
Bolaji Azeez
Bukky & Bukky Adeniran
Bukky Olagunju
Charles Igolo
Chioma Obiakor
Dele Onabokun
Dimeji & Mowunmi Jenmi
Dunmoye Ogunsola
Edith Udeagu
Fatai Ajidagba
Femi & Ngozi Adebiyi
Femi & Tolulope Jaiyeola
Fieldco Limited
Folake Olatunji
Funmi Omole
Ganiyu & Tola Tiamiyu
Hafiz Bidmus
Hafiz Momodu
Hamid Bidmus
Haviz Adeojo
Ibraheem Alabi
Jadesola Ademiluyi
Jibola Olomola
Kolade Kasim
Kunle Akintayo
Lanre Arikenbi
Lanre Shasore
Lara Akinsanya
Lekan Oloyede
Linda & Osayi Ikponmwosa
Lola Idudu
Lola Ojikutu
Meire Akpaibor
Moji Oladeji
Momoh Folashade Hummulkhayr
Moriam Godo
Motunrayo Akinmade
Mr & Mrs. Olanrewaju
Mrs. S. F Adebiyi
Mustapha Momodu
Muyiwa & Biola Odununga
Ninilola Sodipe
Niyi Yusuf
Odunayo Fadahunsi
Okoh Ehimhen
Olumide Ambali
Oma Obu
Omobola K. Ositade
Oyin & Jide Wintoki
Sade Medeyinlo
Segun & Tope Sowande
Shakirah Subair
Shakirat Raji
Temitope Har-Yusuph
Temitope Yomi-Adeyemi
Teslim Buraimoh
Tola Ositade
Tope Fajingbesi
Toritse Orubu
Tosin & Yemi Okojie
Tunde Ladipo
Ufuoma Obioma
Ugochi Apakama
Ummkhayr Orulebaja
Uzor Okeke
Yeside Kazeem
Yetunde Adeshina
Yinka Abiru
Zebra Living