Africare began operations in Nigeria in 1978.

Since that time, Africare/Nigeria has invested approximately $32 million through projects addressing…

• Agriculture & Food Security
• HIV & AIDS
• Family Planning
• Literacy
• Malaria Control
• Maternal and Child Health
• Nutrition
• Orphans and Vulnerable Children
• Reproductive Health
• River Blindness
• Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
• Women’s Empowerment

Success in Nigeria

With funding from USAID from 2009 to 2014, Africare partnered with Management Sciences for Health and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development to implement the Community-Based Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project (CUBS OVC) in 11 Nigerian states. The project empowered Nigerian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and local women, especially female heads of households, to better care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children. The project:

• Built the capacity of 38 CSOs in organizational development, proposal development and OVC comprehensive service delivery
• Served 54,667 children across 12,500 households with needs-based-care
• Improved the earning capacity of 1,081 female heads of households with training in income generation, household nutrition and homestead farming
• Supported 511 women with start-up grants
• Trained over 14,000 female adolescents and caregivers in reproductive health, maternal health, nutrition, family planning and safe motherhood

– See more at: http://www.africare.org/country/nigeria/#sthash.W0haQPOJ.dpuf