Health and welfare
We are concerned with all aspects of community welfare and development. Poor health and poor health services impact on community welfare. Our health involvement includes
- Health services
- Research
- Community training about health and hygiene
We don't yet have full information online about all our projects. Please contact us for more information about possible areas of overlapping interest.
Initiatives filed under Health and welfare
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Daily Nutritional support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children - Visibility
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Ongoing: Fantsuam Foundation provides daily nutritional support, in this instance lunch, for 17 OVCs . These children are highly vulnerable HIV/AIDS orphans...
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Elderly-Kakas Programme
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The Kakas Programme (‘grandmother’ in Hausa) serves grandmothers that have taken on the role of caregiver to their grandchildren. The majority of their parents...
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Feeding the Street Children - visibility
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Known locally as the Almajirai Food Programme.Fantsuam Foundation is feeding approximately twenty street children. The project is targeting the Muslim children...
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Sickle Cell - visibility
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This is a project overseen by John Dada and run by Fantsuam Foundation. The aim is to raise the awareness of this disease both locally and internationally. To...
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Child Carer Project - visibility
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Successfully completed. The child carer project targeted child headed homes. The 50 beneficiaries were children who had had to assume the adult...
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Community Action Committees (CACs) - visibility
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This is a Fantsuam Foundation initiative. In December 2010 Fantsuam Foundation contacted community leaders from the many different districts that they...
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Community Media Unit (CMU) - visibility
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At the UK- Nigeria meeting on 6th April 2011, John Dada informed us that Fantsuam Foundation now has a team of enthusiasts keen to start their new Community...
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HIV/AIDS Programme - visibility
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Fantsuam Foundation's mission is to eliminate poverty and disadvantage through integrated development programmes. Close to 4,500 individuals benefit from...
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Martin Luther Day January 2012 - Kafanchan - visibility
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During one of the regular UK-Nigeria online meetings in November 2011, John Dada, CEO of Fantsuam Foundation, shared with the team his vision.John told us...
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children - visibility
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Our sister organisation, Fantsuam Foundation, in North Central rural Nigeria, runs an Orphans and Vulnerable Childrens Programme (OVCs) which includes the...
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PeoplesUni.org Proof of Concept
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Professor Dick Heller, Dr John Dada and Pamela McLean collaborated on the foundation work for what subsequently became the Peoples Open Access Education...
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Rice Project - Visibility
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Fantsuam Foundation is one of three organisations selected. The Federal Government of Nigeria, in conjunction with the World Bank, are supporting the...
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Rumbu (Hausa word for food bank) - visibility
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The Rumbu or food bank is situated at Fantsuam Foundation. Food from which is given to children to make up for perennial food shortage usually caused by poor...
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Sickle Cell Disease some additional background info - visibility
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Raising Awareness and tackling Sickle Cell Disease in rural Nigeria At a Dadamac UK-Nigeria meeting at the end of 2009 John Dada raised the issue of the...
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Training for the visually impaired (JAWS) - visibility
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John Dada oversees this project at Fantsuam Foundation. This is a fantastic initiative which will make the Fantsuam Academy courses accessible to the sight-...
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Yoghurt Bull
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Inspiration The inspiration was the example of the Danone's Social Business in Bangledesh, manufacturing affordable yoghurt for malnourished children. It is...