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Social Welfare, Safety & Security

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“There is a place in our world where everyone can be all that they have been created to be.”

We have a mission to make people's lives better; to encourage, enable, empower and inspire; to comfort those in sorrow and distress, to rejoice in times of triumph over sickness, poverty and lack of opportunity.

We support the development of socio-economic self -sustainability of our rural populace; we are committed to securing the optimum rights of access to health, education, nutrition, enterprise, shelter, utilities, support and security to our people to ensure total eradication of poverty.

The quest starts here and the reality will be carried on in the hearts of our people from generation to generation.

 

Initiatives and Interventions :

Children's' Reception Centre, Gaa Akanbi, Ilorin. WellBeing Foundation undertook a full renovation and equipping of this pre existing government-owned home established for the care of orphans, abandoned children, children of the mentally disabled and children whose parents cannot otherwise take care of them. This intervention included interior and exterior structural repairs and the provision of bedrooms, bathroom play / day room and kitchen facilities. has also set up general social welfare work, advice and counselling. The foundation is in the forefront of the battle against Anti child labour/trafficking, advocacy against abandonment of infants and children.

 

Support and Counselling in Multiple Births

WellBeing Foundation provides ante-natal and post natal advice and support in these cases, including practical advice on avoiding the attendant dangers of premature delivery, and financial support where needed.

 

Disaster Response and Relief

The WellBeing Foundation makes every attempt to prepare our communities with strategies for disaster response and relief. Our members respond personally in cases of urgent need with a helping hand and a listening ear. Examples include:

 

  • Children orphaned at birth.

  • Jamiu whose eyes were gouged out by assailants last year has been treated and rehabilitated by WellBeing Foundation. He is now receiving a formal education at Kwara State School for Special Needs.

  • Folasade who was abandoned, and deaf/dumb, has completed her WellBeing Foundation sponsored vocational education as a fashion-designer and tailor, has been assisted in establishing her own business and has been re-united with her parents.

  • Burns victims including a whole family last December receive constant support from WellBeing Foundation.

  • Alake deaf/dumb, being cared for by WellBeing Foundation after being abandoned, now enrolled at Kwara State School for Special Needs and making good progress while efforts to locate her parents continue.