Just Imagine it!
You’re a happy 16-year-old girl with friends, a loving family, not too much money, you go to a nearby school and life is good. You walk into your house one day to see your dad and stepmother held at gunpoint by armed Jihadists (you’ve heard of them but hoped never to cross their paths). They ask your father to hand you over as a bride, he refuses and they shoot him and your step mum, then they kidnap you. Soon you’re in a forest with strangers with similar stories.
Married off to one of your kidnappers, you’re brutalized and raped for months, you become pregnant and then one day, decide ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. You manage to escape with 2 other girls but before you can get help, you lose the baby and you’re brought to a camp with thousands of people like you, who cannot go back home. Whether you live or die is entirely left to chance and the help of strangers.
You’re now an 18-year-old girl and your name is Aisha.
Just imagine living as a refugee in your own country. For most people, it is an unimaginable nightmare, yet more than 1.9 million Nigerians as at Jan. 2019 live this reality daily (according to Displacement Population Tracked DTM website). After losing families, friends, homes, businesses and sometimes body parts, they are uprooted from their lives and forced to live in overcrowded makeshift tents with little access to food, clean water and the medical assistance some of them desperately need. More importantly, most of them are little children, missing one or both parents, with zero hope of an education and they are extremely vulnerable to cholera outbreaks and other epidemics.
These people laughed, cried, celebrated weddings, new babies, they had jobs, a favourite food, cars, attended churches and mosques, and hoped to grow old and die in their sleep… just like you and me.
Restricted access to basic human welfare amenities is not limited to our growing number of Internally Displaced Persons, as at December 2018, 1 in 2 Nigerians lived on less than 678 Naira daily.
The Prince Fadipe Foundation wants to help them get on their feet, increase their chances of survival, and aid their recovery journeys through project-based humanitarian aid programs, done periodically from one state to the other, through the provision of:
Basic Amenities:
Food, Clean Water, Clothing, Shelter
Health Care / Therapy:
For the ill, Elderly and Disabled
Economic Empowerment:
Vocational Training, Petty Trade Capital & Scholarships
We want to help!
Are you a co-coordinator in an IDP camp in dire need of relief materials, or simply a citizen aware of a humanitarian crisis that we can help resolve?
Our Projects
Support to Shining Star Orphanage, Lugbe Abuja
Caring for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children is one of the major concerns of PFF. It forms part of the PFF Humanitarian Care Program. Children made vulnerable by the death of one or both parents or the lack of care and support by any parent or guardian because of a diverse mix of health, economic of social factors need all the help they can get. At PFF, we are committed to intervening in ameliorating the circumstances of such children. Our strategy is to work with both inst...
Supported by family and friends passionate about not just giving a hand to the less fortunate but also helping them get back on their feet, the Prince Fadipe Foundation (PFF) was born.