We drew the curtains on 06, Thank you!

The monthly visit to IGH and the Xmas party at HOG marked the end of 'formal' activities UKF had planned for the year 2006. We want to express our gratitude to all those who made 2006 our biggest year so far and also a sign of bigger things to come for us. As you will read from Ibraheem's report below, the IGH visit shows how much more we still need to do in order to restore hope in the lives of the poor and sick. I pray that we are able to do a lot more in 2007 and beyond.
I am happy to report that in spite of the bureaucratic issues we encountered with the Government orphanages again this year, the kids at the Lagos State Orphanage attended the party and had a very good time, the kids at hearts of Gold were perfect hosts and enjoyed themselves too.
Stay tuned for the financial statements and summary of 2006, please keep on recruiting new members and join us as we make bigger dreams come true in 2007 by the grace of the almighty God.

IKeja General Hospital Visit on 12/16/2006 by Ibraheem
Team,

Our visit went well with Bimbo, Shola, Amani, Sheriff, Biola, Hakeem, Lanre and Ibraheem on ground. Shola & Biola were first timers. Ariyo & Mum were also available. We were able to cover both Ayinke House and the our other three wards. Nini & Bimbo did the shopping and we distributed packs to all patients in the ward and those awaiting to be admitted as usual. Thereafter we pulled together about N16K. We encountered two critical patients with special request/response and we attended to both in our own little way.
The first patient is a boy and incidentally he was the one we wanted to pay for his CT scan last week. The CT scan was undertaken by another Samaritan. However, the boy needs antibiotics on a daily basis to survive. He takes two dosages of the drug per day at a cost N1.6K. We gave out N4.5K being cost of drugs for about 3 days and promised to make available another one week drug expense by Wednesday 20th December. At report time, a cheque of N15k will be cashed and made available for this patient by Wednesday 20th December.
The 2nd patient (Iwunze Reward) has meningitis. His mum was helpless as we gathered from the nurses that she could not afford anything. We gave cash of about 5.5K to cater for drugs for the sick child and bought provisions for both mum and child.
We then the shared remaining contribution amongst other critical patients as our normal practice.
Another highlight on Saturday was Mr. Lawal Surakat from Port Harcourt, who was visiting his friend's sick child at the hospital. He approached us and commended our activities. He then donated N10,000 cash. This was part of the money we disbursed above.