Donate Iftar and Suhoor Food Parcels to Support Widowed Mothers and their Children this Ramadan.
As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, it's a time for spiritual reflection, prayer, and giving. It's also a time to remember those who are struggling to make ends meet, especially widowed mothers who are finding it difficult to feed their children and survive each day. At Life Changers Foundation Children’s Home, we have seen first-hand the hardship that widowed mothers face. Many of them are struggling to provide even the most basic necessities for their children, including food. This Ramadan, we are calling on people to help ease the burden for these families by donating Iftar and Suhoor Food Parcels. These [...]
Deborah and Pesu: How Sponsorship Can Change a Child’s Life
Deborah and Pesu are two orphan children from the Makoko Waterfront area in Lagos, Nigeria. They lost their parents at a very young age and were left to fend for themselves in a harsh environment. However, their lives have taken a positive turn since they were sponsored by Life Changers Foundation. Life Changers Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support for vulnerable children in Nigeria. Through their sponsorship program, they are able to provide education, welfare, and basic needs for orphaned children like Deborah and Pesu. Since being sponsored, Deborah and Pesu have been able to attend school regularly and have access to [...]
Protecting Nigeria’s Future: The Urgent Need for Government to Safeguard Vulnerable Children
Childhood is supposed to be a time of innocence and carefree happiness. Unfortunately, for many children in Nigeria, childhood is a time of vulnerability and fear. The rights of children are often disregarded and violated, leaving them susceptible to abuse, exploitation, and neglect. Children in Nigeria are faced with numerous challenges, including poverty, lack of access to education, healthcare, and basic amenities, and exposure to violence and abuse. Many children are forced into child labor, domestic servitude, and sex trafficking. These children are denied their basic rights to safety, education, and a decent quality of life. The Nigerian government has a responsibility to protect [...]
Adegbesan: Our Obligation to Assist the Less Privilege
Mrs. Sheri Adegbesan founded Life Changers Foundation (LCF), a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom with a branch in Nigeria called Life Changers Foundation Children's Home. The organization recently sponsored the end-of-term party for two schools in Makoko, Lagos: Mipamawu Children School and Mawumadoka Orphans & Less Privileged Home/School, Oko-Agbon. Life Changers Foundation, founded in 2005, is a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom with a branch in Nigeria called Life Changers Foundation Children's Home. Our mission is to support individuals in accessing vocational skills training to obtain meaningful employment to support their families. We also conduct free eye tests, [...]
Food for All: Ensuring the Right to Adequate Food through our Outreach Program
In pursuit of child rights, on March 26, 2022, a team from Life Changers Foundation Children’s Home embarked on an outreach program in Sango-Ota, Ogun State Nigeria to provide food for street children, who have the right to an adequate standard of living according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child. At 7:30 am, the team arrived in Sango-Ota, where they encountered homeless children begging for food or wandering aimlessly around the expressway. Most of the children were poorly dressed, malnourished, and without access to education. One of the children [...]
The Reason Behind Gifting Over 500 Children in Makoko with School Packs and More
August 4th 2022 Mrs. Sheri Adegbesan, the founder of Life Changers Foundation (LCF), has expressed her desire to reward the children of Makoko who have persevered against all odds to acquire basic education. Her organization donated school materials to support them for two years. LCF, a UK-based non-profit organization with a branch in Nigeria, also sponsored the end-of-term party for two schools in Makoko, namely Mipamawu Children School and Mawumadoka Orphans & Less Privileged Home/School in Oko-Agbon. During the event, themed "Celebrating the Nigerian Child, Nurturing Hope," Mrs. Adegbesan, a certified UK primary school teacher, highlighted the need for the government to [...]