— Real People, Real Impact
Putting a smile on a face: touching lives, transforming households, impacting communities.
Behind every statistic is a human face. These are the voices of the farmers, mothers and entrepreneurs our projects serve, in their own words.
“Real transformations: from severe vulnerability to radiant smiles and self-reliance.”
Latest 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.
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.
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.
After losing his father, Nasiru left school to push wheelbarrows in the market. At 18, ABEP has given him the chance to learn again.
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.
In Dogon Daji, Tambuwal LGA, children without school bags still come to class every day, and parents are now asking for adult learning.
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.
A ₦10,000 VSLA loan helped Jamila Malami, a mother of seven in Wammako, start a soya bean cake business. She now earns over ₦3,000 a day and all her children are in school.
Improved seeds that mature in 60 days instead of 80 let Jafaro Baro harvest twice in the time of one, and his cabbages now sell for ₦500–₦600 each.
Widowed and raising 11 children, Murja Yari invested her ₦75,000 WFP cash transfer in a food business that now runs from morning until evening.
Improved maize and tomato seeds gave 65-year-old Karba Mohamad yields he had never seen in a lifetime of farming, and his farm is now a learning point for neighbours.
With ₦75,000 in livelihood support, cap-washer Mustafa Almajiri diversified into selling caps and turned a failing shop into a growing enterprise.
25 women in Bankanu, Kware LGA, saved ₦196,000 in their first cycle and chose to invest together in maize for resale.
A ₦20,000 loan from the Gabashi VSLA restarted Atika Abas's rice-processing business. Two months later she buys five bags at a time and her children are back in school.
A breastfeeding mother of twins learned her HIV status through community testing and was linked to care. Today the family is thriving.
Forced into marriage at fifteen, Azima found a safe space, a voice and a trade through the UNICEF early child marriage project.
From a three-lock savings box to start-up capital: how Group Savings and Loan Associations supported by Secours Islamique France and ZOA are turning savings into businesses.
Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Groups, young people in Sokoto who had withdrawn from school, work and friends found support, skills and hope again.
When insurgency cost her husband his shop, a 50-year-old grandmother rebuilt her kuli-kuli business through a ZOA/LHI savings group.
A widow raising ten children in Gongulong, Jere LGA, joined a savings group and turned business support into a new meat pie and doughnut venture.
A 16-month-old in Onicha LGA moved from severe to moderate acute malnutrition through counselling, food demonstrations, an IMAM referral and the food bank.
Nutrition counselling and fortified Tom Brown helped an 11-month-old girl gain weight and grow within five weeks.
A 20-year-old in Dapchi turned away from drug abuse with the help of a peer educator from an adolescent and youth-friendly centre set up by Plan International and LHI.
Under the UNICEF child protection and EU Spotlight Initiative project, LHI and community surveillance teams made sure girls who survived sexual violence received care, counselling, justice and a way back to school.
A 13-year-old who hawked to support her family watched Girls for Girls sessions through a classroom window, then persuaded her parents to let her enrol.
In Shinkafi LGA, Zamfara State, Girls for Girls members learned leadership, life skills and crafts. Three girls now make beads and slippers, and one teaches others.
Your support helps families like these move from vulnerability to stability and growth.
