Our Story

Our organization is purely a not for profit and our activities, interventions and projects are funded entirely by charitable donations, so if you are able to donate, you make it possible for us to continue doing what we do. Our activities help poverty stricken people in our target demographics access quality, affordable and vital healthcare; thereby complementing what our severely overburdened government is doing in this sector.

Our main intervention has been in diabetes, with a special focus on diabetic foot care.  We realised that even though Nigeria has a considerable incidence of diabetic foot ulcer amongst the population living with diabetes, there were no podiatrist in Nigeria to speak of (perhaps two or three and none of them were trained locally or running practices that were available all year round)-For a country of well over a hundred and fifty million people with more than four million of those (diagnosed) with diabetes, the situation was alarming to say the least.

Compounding an already grave issue is the mortality rate associated with the diabetic foot burden: one recent study found that about ninety percent of patients who’d undergone an amputation of a foot, died within five years of losing the limb.