A million Naira contract, Malnutrition (?) and the Governor heard us...

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce several great things that have happened to us and the kids we help in the last couple of days.

Ikeja General Hospital Monthly visit
We will like to thank the 16 wonderful people who came out to support our monthly relief efforts at the Ikeja General Hospital Children's wards on Saturday May 17th 2008: Ibraheem, Amani, Khadijah, Nini, Toritse, Bimbo B, Bukky & Bukky A, Saheed A, Ngozi and Mommy Adebiyi, Bode D (welcome to the group!), Omobola O, Tope YA, Mama Ariyo, Funke A and Fola. Thank you very much for giving your time to restore hope in the hearts of these kids and their families.

As usual, we delivered groceries to the kids on admission at Ayinke house, the premature babies unit and the other pediatric wards as usual. We also selected two patients (Ayangbade Usman - 11 months old and Richard Emmanuel -14years old) as beneficiaries of our Prescription Assistance Program (PAP). Ayangbade is suffering from Protein Energy Malnutrition, and the doctor advised that he should be given lots of good food and beverages (which we provided immediately). Richard is suffering from Tetanus and was prescribed with "Diazepam, Genitia, IVF and CPZ." We concluded arrangements for the kids’ medications to be supplied by our partner, Juli Pharmacy.

Wesley/Wright Primary Schools
United for Kids Foundation has signed a contract worth ~N1 million Naira with LOTT Archi Consult/Mr. Jimmy Olulami to construct an “816 meters long” protective fence around the primary school. See the current situation of the school at the following link:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=16qe66wt.9dlfbmjp&x=0&y=pcg75b&localeid=en_US

Almost half of the funding for this project came from the donation we received from Zebra Living (proceeds of the 2007 Zebra Ball), we thank Zebra living and all our individual donors for making this big dream come true: because of you, the kids will not be afraid of falling in and getting drowned in the dangerous canal surrounding their school anymore.

Children’s Transit Home/Lagos State Government
During one of our checks on the Children’s Transit Home in Idi-Araba, we were informed of the state Government plans to relocate the children in this facility to another place. This made us very concerned about the plight of the kids and the condition of the new location, we therefore sought audience with the State Governor and by the grace of God, we got it. Our team has met with the state commissioner for housing and senior officials in the ministry of youth, sports and welfare development twice in the past one month. We have been briefed on the reasons for the relocation, given approval to visit the proposed facility where the kids will be moved to and tasked to advise the government about what needs to be done to make the new place conducive for the kids. Our hardworking and dedicated members: Funke A, Nini, Khadijah, Bimbo B, Ngozi, Amani and Folasade visited the proposed facility in Isheri last weekend and have given us feedback, which we will pass on to the Lagos State Government.


We feel very blessed to be used by God as a tool to help these otherwise voiceless citizens get a better deal in life, we are grateful for your support and hope you will continue to spread the word about our mission. Thank you very much and God bless!