CTH Floors - Before and After pictures....

Thanks to the hardworking trustees God has blessed us with and your generous donations, the kids at the Children's Transit Home in Idi-Araba now love the floors in their hostel.

The following pictures show how bad the floors were:

And the following pictures show what the flooring looks like today:

Thank you and may God bless you. We will continue to count on your generousity to build smiles, hope and love in the hearts of these wonderful children.

Stepping on solid ground in CTH, Clothes on our backs + UKF in a fashion show?

Q2-2007 will perhaps go down in UKF history as one of the quarters we 'lived' our dreams to the fullest, thanks to YOU. We had a record amount of new subscribers to the mailing list, financial donors and most importantly good people who stood up to help our mission. Here are highlights of some events that happened in June 07:

1. Despite the challenges posed by the fuel shortage in Nigeria, we visited the Ikeja General Hospital Children's wards on Saturday June 16th. Our able crew included: Mummy Adebiyi, Nini, Sheriff, Bimbo, Adesuwa (supported by our youngest members - her twin daughters), Khadijah, Folashade, Sola G, Ekanem O, Bidemi J, Obinna U, Ibraheem and Hakeem. We are pleased to welcome our new members and hope that you will stay with us. As usual, we distributed groceries and supplies to the infants in Ayinke house and children's wards 1-3. Three patients were selected for our Prescription Assistance Program (UKF-PAP) for June 2007: Samuel Arepo, Jamiu Abeeb and Aina Shadia. Jamiu and Aina required antibiotics while Samuel required a CT scan for his swollen head.


2. We were blessed by the thoughtfulness of a couple of good friends this month: a set of Nigerian twins based in Ireland decided to organize clothes drives for the benefit of the kids we support, if you or anyone you know in the UK area will like to support these efforts, please send an email to Khadijah at keeptheorphansniceandwarm@yahoo.co.uk. We also received with joy and appreciation news that Lshandi, a fashion label in the Washington Dc area is organizing a fashion show and part of the proceeds from gate fees will be donated to UKF, for details, please see http://www.lshandi.com/


3. We are continuously challenged by your trust and eagerness to support our projects/mission. This really encourages us to break new grounds. Earlier this week, we received an email from a Nigerian religious association in Ireland asking us how much it costs to support an orphan for one day. This is an area we have never explored, mainly because we do not run any orphanages, but the question has brought lots of great ideas for us to work on.


4. Remember the pictures of the bad flooring and laundry area at CTH that we sent last month? Your donations have helped us to turn things around at CTH, the kids will now be stepping on nice tiled floors and washing their clothes in a good laundry area with proper drainage. We hope to bring you pictures of the new CTH shortly.
5. Ariyo, the pediatric urology patient we have been helping since 2005 has undergone two minor surgeries in the UK, he is on a three week bed rest right now and will undergo more procedures in the near future. Please keep Ariyo and family in your prayers, may God heal him and everyone of us.
6. We have finalized plans to employ a coordinator for our Lagos operations, we will be making a formal announcement in Q3-2007 by the grace of God. We expect to be able to do more projects now that we have a dedicated staff and also expect to pick up donations from the offices of donors that have been too busy to get their donations across to us in the past.

On behalf of all the trustees and the kids we reach out to, I really want to thank you all for your trust, time, money and support. We are blessed to be associated with you. Please stay tuned for the Q2 financial summary and our plans for Q3- 2007. For now, please mark your calendars for our Hospital visit on Saturday July 21, 2007 at 9am.

Thank you and God bless.