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Do you desire to make a difference to an Orphan? Our sole mission is to connect donors directly to Orphans, getting each orphan’s well-being right. Your donations will enable a better life, restore their hope, and build their future.
We act as the link between your donations and orphans. Ensuring each orphan under our radar is safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieving, respected, responsible and included through our activities of vetting orphanages, validating each orphan’s well-being, creating additional virtual learning environments and reporting to the donors.
Direct to Orphans (D2O) is working to register a UK-based Charity organisation to ensure that donations and resources reach the doorsteps of orphans and the adults responsible for them in Africa.
Over the years, I have observed that there is a conflict between the resources (financial & material) raised through donations and the impact on the lives of the actual beneficiaries. Unfortunately, most often than not, many of these donations end up being diverted to dishonest officials.
Hence, D2O is established solely to bridge this widening gap. Our team is in close contact with two orphanages at the moment, with a direct link to these orphans needing your help. We can now vouch for the integrity of two Orphanage Homes in Nigeria, West Africa. We are working smart to bring other credible homes on board as we progress.
Aim of Direct2Orphans:
Direct2Orphans aims to work with volunteers and partners to ensure we get it right for every orphan under our radar. Our approach supports children and young people so they can grow up feeling loved, safe, and respected and realise their full potential. Every child and young person needs to experience safety, good health, academic success, nurturing, physical activity, respect, responsibility, and inclusivity within their home and community. These eight factors are known as the SHANARRI well-being indicators, which is the Scottish Government’s model for ensuring the well-being of Scottish children.
The well-being indicators will make it easier for us at D2O to advocate for orphans and the people working with them to discuss how a child or young person is doing at a point in time and if there is a need for support. Each orphan is unique, and there is no set level of well-being that children should achieve. Well-being is influenced by children’s experiences and changing needs as they grow.
A range of experiences can have adverse effects on young people. It might be recognisable Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) or other adversities such as bereavement or bullying, or where an illness, disability or poverty. Each child should be helped to reach their full potential as an individual.
We are working with Child, Health, Social Work and Education Practitioners to develop a series of well-being resources and learning activities that our Orphanages can use or adapt for workshops or conversations with children, young people, and orphanage staff. These will explain well-being and how it is used to support children and young people in more detail. Watch out for our future projects and plans.
Oluwakemi Orphanage
There are many orphanages and welfare homes in Nigeria. Most are privately owned and managed as Non-Governmental Organisations, while the rest are managed and funded by the Government. As someone who lives in the Diaspora, I have often faced one fundamental challenge: locating the right and genuine orphanage home where one can genuinely ascertain that donations, funds and resources are being utilised for those kids in dire need. I have always supported vulnerable children through Compassion UK in other parts of Africa and Asia but not in Nigeria.
On the 21st of October, 2021, Providence dawned on me, and I was opportune to have visited Oluwakemi Homes & Orphanage situated in a small village in Omi-Adio in the ancient city of Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. Omi-Adio is a boundary town between Ogun State and Oyo State, Nigeria.
The orphanage was established in 1995, fully registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, and dedicatedly managed by Mrs Victoria Adeleke; a trained nurse. She is in her early 60s and has dedicated her life, time and resources to the welfare of these helpless kids, thereby restoring hopes and raising destinies.
Essential Needs
UPDATE on the Building Project
My previous visit to Oluwakemi Orphanage Home in July 2022
Funding is crucial to the survival of any orphanage. Therefore “essential needs” is the fulcrum of the Direct to Orphans project. We encourage financial donations that will positively affect the lives of these orphans.
It is a regular monthly donation of a minimum amount of £15 monthly to support the basic daily needs for survival, including feeding and recreational needs for the home. It is the donation that keeps the child growing.
We will appreciate and accept donations below £15 or more than £35. Please use the “OTHER AMOUNT” to state your preferred monthly contributions.
