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Katsina State Deputy Governor Faruk Lawal Jobe commissioning the Gidan Arziki centre
Gidan Arziki commissioning, April 2026

Latest stories

News
24 September 2026·2 min read

Health Ambassadors: Life Helpers Initiative in Pictures

Training health educators, immunising children, teaching nutrition from seed to plate, and standing against gender-based violence: our work in pictures.

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LHI Communications
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Magazine
20 September 2026·3 min read

Restoring Hope, North West Lives: OHA Project Magazine

The project closure edition of the USG OHA-funded Integrated Emergency Response in Sokoto State: 109,225 outpatient consultations, 76,257 children screened for malnutrition, 9,614 children treated for SAM and 5,635 skilled deliveries.

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LHI Communications
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Success Stories
19 September 2026·1 min read

A Child Saved, A Mother's Hope Restored

Seven-year-old Basiru could not walk, and traditional treatment had failed. One visit to the LHI Goronyo IDP health clinic changed everything for his family.

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LHI Communications
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Success Stories
18 September 2026·1 min read

How Nutrition Support Saved Ahmad's Life

Displaced from Kunawa, two-year-old Ahmad was screened in the yellow zone for moderate acute malnutrition. Twelve weeks later his MUAC was green, and his mother had new confidence in feeding him.

NutritionSokotoGoronyo
LHI Communications
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Magazine
20 June 2026·2 min read

Healing Homes: Rebuilding Family Life in Six Zamfara Communities

How the UNICEF and UK aid-funded Multi-Sectoral Integrated Resilience Programme is helping parents and caregivers in six LGAs of Zamfara State talk, listen and rebuild family life.

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LHI Communications
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Magazine
15 June 2026·3 min read

Learning for a Brighter Future: ABEP Project Magazine

The first quarter of the EU/UNICEF Accelerated Basic Education Programme in six LGAs of Sokoto State: 3,255 out-of-school children enrolled, 105 facilitators and 164 CBMC members trained.

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LHI Communications
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Success Stories
12 June 2026·1 min read

From Wheelbarrow to Classroom: Nasiru Umar

After losing his father, Nasiru left school to push wheelbarrows in the market. At 18, ABEP has given him the chance to learn again.

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LHI Communications
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Success Stories
11 June 2026·1 min read

A Bag, A Dream: Saudatu Aliyu

Fourteen-year-old Saudatu begged her father to let her attend a learning centre. Now she walks to class with her school bag and a dream of becoming a doctor.

EducationGirlsABEP
LHI Communications
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Success Stories
10 June 2026·1 min read

The Impact Beyond the Classroom: A Village Head's View

In Dogon Daji, Tambuwal LGA, children without school bags still come to class every day, and parents are now asking for adult learning.

EducationABEPCommunity
LHI Communications
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Success Stories
14 May 2026·1 min read

Finding Purpose at 70: Arajana Suleiman

Insecurity had cut a 70-year-old mother of eight off from her farmland. At the Gidan Arziki centre she found safe work, income, new skills and better health.

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LHI Communications
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— Publications

Newsletters, bulletins & project magazines

Joint supportive supervision team of government and LHI officers conducting a health facility review in Sokoto State, 2026Project Magazine Vol. 4

May 2023 – June 2026

Restoring Hope, North West Lives

The USG OHA/IRC Integrated Emergency Response: health and nutrition for displaced and host communities in Sokoto State.

The LHI team together at the annual reviewAnnual Report

2024

Life Helpers Initiative 2024 Annual Report

Our aim, vision, mission and values, and our work across LHI's thematic areas.

ABEP learner showing her EU and UNICEF school bag in a learning centre classroomABEP Project Magazine

February – May 2026

Learning for a Brighter Future

The EU/UNICEF Accelerated Basic Education Programme in six LGAs of Sokoto State.

Young woman learning to sew at the Gidan Arziki business incubation unitProject Magazine Vol. 2

April 2026

Empowering Communities Through Innovation, Skills & Livelihood Support

The Gidan Arziki Farmers Service Hub in Batagarawa, Katsina State (FCDO/WFP).

Smiling woman farmer holding fresh produce on her farm in Sokoto StateProject Magazine Vol. 1

September 2025 – February 2026

Cultivating Resilience: A New Harvest in Northwest Nigeria

The FCDO/WFP Resilience Building and Smallholder Farmers Support Project in Sokoto and Katsina.

GSLA members celebrating their share-outData report

June 2023 – 2024

Small Steps, Big Impact: GSLA's Journey to Financial Empowerment

Group Savings and Loan Associations in Zamfara, Biu and Yobe (SIF / ZOA).

Farmers working together in an irrigated cabbage field in Sokoto StateAssessment report

March 2026

Agric-Led Livelihood Needs Assessment

Farming, income, markets and risks in Kware and Wamakko LGAs, Sokoto State.

Village savings group members seated on mats during a meetingLHI Newsletter

2025 highlights

Strengthening Resilience, Restoring Dignity, Transforming Lives

Education in Goronyo, the FCT office's year, SEMA coordination and stories of hope.

Ya Gabtu Shattima at her kuli-kuli and groundnut oil stall, restarted with ZOA/LHI GSLA supportHelpers Digest

October 2023

Helpers Digest: Resilience, Renewal and Nutrition

ZOA/LHI savings groups in Borno and IHP nutrition recoveries in Ebonyi State.

LHI health worker showing a MUAC tape used to screen children for malnutrition in Ebonyi StateLHI Newsletter

September 2023

Transforming Lives Through Nutrition: Rejoice's Journey

From severe to moderate acute malnutrition in Onicha LGA, Ebonyi State.

Trainee weighing a nine-month-old baby at Okaria MDGs PHCLHI Newsletter

August 2023

Chinwendu's Nutrition Triumph in Ebonyi State

Nutrition counselling and growth monitoring through the IHP nutrition project.

Health worker harvesting tomatoes from the Dumsai PHC garden, Yobe StateHelpers Digest

September 2022

Helpers Digest: Inner Peace and a Journey of a Mile

Plan International (BMZ) youth and primary health care work in Yobe State.

Mas'ud at his sewing machine after joining an IPT-G group in Bodinga, SokotoHelpers Digest

December 2023

Helpers Digest: Champion of Change Success Stories

Young people in Sokoto overcoming depression through IPT-G group therapy (Plan International).

Health workers in a low-dose, high-frequency child health training session under the Integrated Health ProgramHelpers Digest

November – December

Compendium of IHP Success Stories

Child health, malaria and nutrition training results at 17 facilities in Sokoto and Kebbi (USAID IHP).

Girls taking part in a G4G spelling bee and reading festivalHelpers Digest

September 2021

Reaching for the Stars

Girls for Girls (G4G) in Fune LGA, Yobe State (UNICEF / KfW).

Community-based health volunteer counselling a mother with a counselling card under the SHOW project, SokotoHelpers Digest

September 2019

CBHVs, Agents of Change

770 community-based health volunteers under the SHOW project in Sokoto (Plan International / Global Affairs Canada).

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