Partnership with Nigerian Christian Fellowship and Care Foundation

A child helped by CHRIFACACProject Profile

The Nigerian Christian Fellowship and Care Foundation (CHRIFACAF) is a non-profit humanitarian organization whose primary focus is to provide free health care and humanitarian services to the surrounding rural communities and beyond. To liaise and partner with local and international humanitarian service providers in the identification of target communities for the operation of the foundation’s in the actualization of her aims. To print free Christian tracts and engage in free Christian education to all interested member of the Christian community. We are dedicated to working with old people, young people, widows, disabled, women, orphaned and vulnerable children, families and their communities in Imo State, Nigeria, to reach their full potential by tracking the causes of poverty and injustice.  Learn more at http://www.chrifacaf.org or email Clinton Ezeigwe at info@chrifacaf.org.

Partnership History

CHRIFACAF has been an Omprakash partner since summer 2008.

Need for Volunteers: We welcome volunteers with various backgrounds, skills and age such as: Accountants, actors, agriculturalists, artists, auto mechanics, carpenters, computer scientists/programmers/teachers, construction workers, consultants, dentists, electricians, engineers, farmer, foresters, homemakers, nurses, nutritionists, painters, pharmacists, physicians, plumbers, students and teachers.

Volunteers can help in the following areas:

  1. Teaching children and adults conversational English and other subjects such as the science, computer literacy and mathematics.

  2. Caring for disable and abandoned children at orphanages and other facilities.

  3. Providing health care services, education and counseling.

  4. Assisting with community infrastructural development and construction such as building tables, chairs, desks, etc. for schools, erecting community centers and health clinics, constructing latrines, drilling wells, etc.

We provide volunteers an opportunity to gain a genuine, first-hand understating of how local people in other culture and countries live out their day-to-day lives and, in the process, to present local people with a more authentic impression of people from Developed countries really are. Our aim is to enable volunteers to experience life in a rural community. The learn from the local people with whom they work and they become familiar with the human and economic conditions of developing countries. As a result, each volunteer has an opportunity to dramatically alter his or her perspective of the world and how he or she relates to it. By working with and learning from each other, both local people and volunteers can initiate inter-cultural friendships and understanding.

Gift in Kind (Need for Material resources):

Gifts of the following items are greatly appreciated. They will be distributed among communities and individuals that Christian Fellowship and Care Foundation support. Items can be new or used; we’ll gladly accept both:

    • Crayons, Pencils, Pens, Coloring Books, Books, Art Supplies

    • Educational materials / Stationeries/ teaching aids / posters (for classrooms)

    • Mathematics Flashcards

    • Infant and toddler clothes

    • Toothbrush (new)

    • Soap (new)

    • Shoes (Children’s)

    • Prescription Eyeglasses

    • Backpacks

    • Toys

    • Computers/laptops, printers, and fax machines

    • Bicycles (Bikes)

    • Sports equipment and recreational items

    • Furniture (include office, h/hold and school furniture’s).

    • Medical supplies and equipment (include hospital beds and furniture’s).


  1. Youths Computer House: An innovative computer education program for young people. The program would focus on youth literacy on computer technology such as building of youths computer house where youths from under served communities comes to explore their own ideas on the world of computer age.

  1. Provision of primary Health care by construction a health care center in Nzerem: The construction of a new Health Center in Umuchoke-Nzerem who are living in a poverty stricken community where they travel 20 kilometers before location a health facility. The project will focus on improving survival and health for the most vulnerable children and women and poor villagers as well as promote community health awareness on nutrition, childhood illnesses and reproductive health and sanitation.

  1. Provision of a Backpack with HIV and AIDS prevention materials: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 39.5 million people in the world are HIV infected. More than 24 million of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria. As part of our HIV and Aids prevention awareness campaign in Nigeria, CHRIFACAF would like to provide children with awareness activities, backpacks, and educational materials. For $25, you can make sure one child receives the backpack and lifesaving information. Our goal is to raise $37,000. so that many children can be helped.

4. Education sponsorship for low-income children: CHRIFACAF sponsors individual children by helping to cover the costs of basic living expenses (medicine, food, and education) of children of families affected by HIV. We also help children from families who can’t afford the costs of school fees, uniforms, and books. Typically, it costs between 250-300 / annually per child to meet these costs.

Below please find an outline of CHRIFACAF’s most recent project:

Project Title: Construct two classrooms for Group Schools Eziama.

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Project Summary:
Nigeria’s poverty has been decimating educational efforts as
children in many parts of the rural communities face incredible
obstacles in getting an education. Christian Fellowship and Care
Foundation is raising money to construct a two classroom at Group Schools
Eziama in Oparanadim, Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria.
The school built fi fty years ago with mud blocks has been
blown off by heavy rain storm. The children are learning under
the mango tree.
A great number of pupils stayed away from the school because of browned
off building during a heavy rain fall. The remaining building-built with
mud walls without doors and windows, blocks dilapidated, population
explosion, insuffi cient desks, overcrowded classrooms and inadequate
learning materials characterize the entire system. It will be a great
relief to parents and children if at least a new two classroom block is
constructed to save them from eminent danger and allow them to study in a
very conducive environment. Over 1500 children will benefi t from the
project, improving their literacy and education and giving them a brighter
future.

Project Activities:
The project will help construct two block classrooms, buy
teachers table and desk, school desk, blackboards and basic materials for
Group Schools Eziama.

Potential Long -Term Impact:
The two classroom construction will provide appropriate, adequate,
desirable and acceptable learning environment for children to learn.
”Education is the beginning of the end of poverty and the foundation on
which individuals, families, and communities can build sustainable
futures. Learn to read. Write. And life just got easier”!
Project request fund:
The total cost of this project is: $22,300.00 USD
$10-Help buy one mud block
$15-Help buy a bag of cement
$20-Provides one blackboard
$50-Help with a new roofing sheet
$100-Help provide desks and chairs
$250-Help buy building materials

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