Dear friends,

Thank God for yet another trip to the Ikeja General Hospital on September 15, 2007 courtesy of Ibrabeem, Nini, Amani, Khadijah, Lola I, Biliqis B, Hakeem, Lanre, Folasade and Bolaji (Folasade’s sister who graciously assisted with the shopping). As usual, we distributed groceries and supplies to the kids in the premature babies’ wards at Ayinke house and the children’s wards in the main hospital. We also continued our prescription assistance program (UKF-PAP) through Juli pharmacy. The following patients were selected as September’s beneficiaries:

Ester Oduenyi, a female patient diagnosed with Pulmonary Tuberculoses. The doctors prescribed “3packets Cefuroxine (750mg) per day,” UKF covered one week’s supply of this prescription.
Emmanuel Ani, an 8 month old male surgical patient needed “120mg Ceftazinduine,” we covered 4 bottles, which should last for a week.
Bamiduro Ayomikun, a female patient who had Retinoblastoma (Retino Glaucoma - her eye was coming out of its socket). A prescription is expected to be made on Wednesday, Sept. 19.
These patients’ names were taken to Juli Pharmacy for their mothers to pick up the prescriptions later on Saturday, except for Bamiduro, whose mom will go to Juli Pharmacy on Wednesday, September 19th after it has been prescribed by the Doctor.

We will like to thank the following kind hearted people for their donations during the visit:

Lola I gave us two bags of clothes (for babies aged 2 to 12 months), we will take these clothes to Hearts of Gold hospice next week by God’s grace.
Lanre D gave us several packs of candy for the kids, we intend to share this among the kids in HOG, CTH and BES orphanages next week as well.
Biliqis B and Morayo R gave us cash donations.
Mrs. Taiwo Ogunsola, who was passing by decided to support our work. She gave us a check of N25,000.
Adesuwa L, for donating a beautiful camera to UKF. We like getting pictures to our audience so that you can see what you have helped create and what still needs to be done, therefore this camera is a much needed asset to grow our mission.

We have several projects lined up for the last quarter of the year, which starts in October. We intend to begin work on the primary schools, hold our annual Xmas and Eid Kabir parties and also continue our regular programs. Please send us your Q4 donations as soon as you are able, and as for those who have not giving us anything this year, please help us support the poor, sick and needy….may God support you too.

Thank you very much for making these things happen, may God continue to bless you all.

New Pictures for your viewing 'pleasure'

There are more in our gallery:

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Everyday I complain about the spate of armed robbery in Nigeria, but I never traced the menace to the school environment until recently. How on earth can some kids be subjected to these environment and then watch us live in luxury? In the past few days, our foundation (www.unitedforkidsfoundation.org) has gone round three Lagos schools to see things for ourselves and we are still trying to recover from the shock of it all. We estimate that we will need close to N3m ($24,000 dollars) to put these places in decent shape, our goal is to spend the next 15 months transforming these schools. To get this, we are going to embark on the most aggressive fund raising effort ever.

How can you help?

1. Get your company to sponsor part of this rehab project.

and/or

2. Send your personal donations today!

Please contact: unitedforkids@gmail.com for further details.

Thank you.