In Nigeria, especially in the suburban areas, there are a lot of people, both young and old, living with a hernia, diseases of the appendix, gall bladder, and even the ovary. It has been their sad reality for years, not because the pain is mild or the protrusion is a fashion statement, but because there READ MORE
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A Sneak Peek Into Our Newly Launched Internship Program
We had been planning this internship program for three months now. The goal of the internship is to build a pool of capable people for projects and operations management in the healthcare programs we run. This ensures we have the manpower to grow, the interns can use their skills to get good jobs and make READ MORE
The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony For The Julia Burke Maternity Centre
I first wrote about the modular clinic in September 2020 – I titled it “We have gone modular!”. That was just when we received the empty container house. By October, I wrote another piece on how far we have gone with setting up the container house and actually setting up the modular clinic – operations READ MORE
Enugu Modular Project- So Far So Good!
Remember our Modular Clinic? Yes! The detachable container now fashioned into a beautiful and well-furnished clinic, donated to a traditional birth attendant to provide a haven for pregnant women during deliveries in the Coal City State of Enugu, Nigeria. We are glad to say the facility is indeed coming up nicely and has gained widespread READ MORE
We Have Gone Modular!
We just launched our first ever modular clinic in Nigeria! The modular clinic is an initiative to create a safe delivery environment for pregnant mothers. This is in line with our on going efforts to deliver the safest health service to these women. The Modular Clinic, located in Nigeria’s coal city State, Enugu is a READ MORE
Capacity Development Training- Adazi, Mgbakwu and Other Communities Reap Bountifully
In August, amidst the Covid’19 lockdown, traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in Adazi, Amanuke, Anaku, Ifitedunu, Mgbakwu, Nanka, Nawfia, Nogu, Nibo, Nise, Nteje, Omor, Umunya, and Urum all in Anambra State got a generous share of our capacity development training for TBAs. A total of one hundred TBAs shared from the knowledge wells of GEANCO Foundation’s READ MORE
Excitement As Tablet Notebooks And Solar Power Banks Get To GEANCO Scholars
The distribution of electronic tablets and power banks commenced in the Ancient City of Ibadan and the Cold City of Jos before the train arrived in Enugu, the Coal City. The GEANCO Scholars in these cities were overwhelmed with joy and excitement as they received their presents with thankfulness and gratitude beaming all over their READ MORE
GEANCO Foundation Begins Free Mama Kit Distribution
It always gladdens the heart of a mother when she is being delivered of her child and both remain safe and healthy. Safe and successful child deliveries can always be achieved when caregivers saddled with the responsibility, are adequately equipped with such tools as they may require to efficiently discharge their duties. Hence, the distribution READ MORE
GEANCO Begins Distribution Of Tablet Notebooks and Solar Power Banks To Her Scholars
According to the UNICEF’s information sheet on Girls’ Education 2007, the education of the girl child does not only bring the immediate benefit of empowering girls but is also seen as the best investment in a country’s development. Nothing puts a smile on the face of a girl child than to be well assured of READ MORE
COVID19 Response: Training and PPE Distribution
The Corona Virus Disease has continued; with a broad spectrum impact on the globe. The economic downturn, new social paradigms, and work ethics have followed in response to the pandemic. Countries are still working hard to contain the situation. And lots of speculation are in the air about how the post-covid world will look like. READ MORE
The TBA Support Experience
First, it never crossed your mind that you would ever be in this kind of training. Second, the tools you get are things you always desired but never could afford. Third, they treat you with much more respect than you’ve ever got from the ‘educated’ folks in the decades of your practice. You couldn’t help READ MORE
THE COVID 19 THREAT – HELPING NIGERIA STAND
The COVID 19 outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. COVID’19 spread from Wuhan, China till it reached even the recesses of Africa. Nigeria confirmed its first COVID 19 case on 27th February. Since then, the number of infected persons has risen slowly but steadily to over 200, READ MORE
2020 Leadership Summit-Wholistic Leadership Development for the Girl Child
Come July 2020, the first edition of the David Oyelowo leadership summit for the girl child will hold in Enugu, south-eastern Nigeria. Thirty-three girls drawn from the North-East, South-East and South-West geopolitical zones of the country will be gracing this summit. These girls are beneficiaries of the David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for the Girl Child, READ MORE
Say Hello to our Interns!
The GEANCO internship program was formalized in May. Prior to this, three interns had been working with the missions under an informal arrangement. Our field staff found it a necessary form to increase efficiency on the field. This May however, the arrangement received an official approval. The internship program was launched with a project planning READ MORE