Q3 2007 – fair journey so far….what next?

Dear Friends,

The first month of Q3-2007 is gradually coming to an end; the journey so far has been fairly ‘okay’, there is room to do a lot more, please see details below:

Donations drive: The response from donors has not been too good, we are still expecting your checks/cash to enable us do what we need to do for the kids out there. You can send us your donations through any of the following media:

1. Paypal (unitedforkids@gmail.com)
2. Mail your checks to: United for Kids Foundation, PO BOX 18022, Middle River MD 21220 USA
3. In Canada, you can donate through: Olanrewaju Arikenbi at #130 - 1340 University Dr NW. Calgary AB. T2N 3Y7.
4. Pay directly into our GT Bank Account: 208 7120751 110 (Awolowo Road, branch).
5. Send an email to teefaj3@yahoo.com to get the details of our London bank account.
6. Send an email to unitedforkids@gmail.com and we will have our staff coordinator, Folasade Dasaolu, pick up your checks from your office in Lagos.

Every day you procrastinate is a day spent breaking your promise to help make Nigeria, and indeed the World a better place, please support UKF today!

July 2007 visit to the Ikeja General Hospital: As usual, our team visited the children’s wards of the Ikeja GH, including Ayinke house, on Saturday, July 21 2007. A record number of members (15) took time out of their busy schedule to make this visit a reality. We sincerely thank Sola, Bimbola A, Khadijah, Ngozi, Bimbo B, Moji, Akeem, Amani, Adesuwa & the twins, Obinna, Tope S, Folasade, Mommy Adebiyi and Ekanem for their support.

We gave out the usual groceries and selected four patients as beneficiaries of the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) for July 2007: Esther Bolaji (Hydrocephalus), Samson Orimisun (Bronchi Pneumonia), Eze Lucky (Meningitis) and John Blessing, a two month old baby girl who needed to undergo a CT scan for Hydrocephalus. We paid N35,000 for Blessing’s CT scan and ensured that Lucky got his drugs from Juli pharmacy, unfortunately Esther passed away on Sunday, July 22 2007.

Our monthly visits to IGH have shown the prevalence of hydrocephalus and the need for the hospital to have its own CT scan equipment; we hope that with your help, we will be able to do a lot in this regard.

UKF Structures in Lagos & USA: Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Segun Ojo, a friend of one of our trustees, we should be setting up our ‘shop’ ‘free of charge’ on Ikorodu Road (Obanikoro area) in Lagos shortly. We are also grateful to KPMG Nigeria for the donation of a laptop for our use. We are now in the market for ‘free’ internet access; please contact us (unitedforkids@gmail.com) if you can help this dream come true.

The final determination of our tax exempt status in the USA should occur in less than a month, we have been in touch with the IRS and there have been no issues with our application so far, we will let you know as soon as we get a final decision.

The way forward/Q3 calendar: We will greatly appreciate your support as we start our busiest month of the quarter: August 2007. We are visiting all the institutions we support this month, please see our calendar at: http://www.unitedforkidsfoundation.org/events.htm and save the dates. We hope to see you at one or more of these visits.

Life is like short trip during which we crave popularity. However, only a few realize that the true measure of that popularity is the number of hearts we visit during our lifetime, let your own count down begin…


Thank you and God bless.