Nigeria

Desks for Students

In a country full of corruption, giving hope is not easy. When you strive to do the work of the Lord, the Holy Spirit often intervenes. We were so blessed this year to receive donations from all over, making it possible to give desks to students in Nigeria. Providing desks where there were once none is just one of the ways we are building platforms for education and aiming to help the whole world.

We called on you in March with an emergency request to help Broadrick Street Primary School finish its roof. With just two days to go before our partner, Felicia, had to return to the States, this was an urgent need. But you rallied and gave generously! We were able to send the needed funds in time, and the roof was finished in April!

Here is what Felicia had to say in an email she sent to us from Nigeria:

“Happy Easter. This is the best Easter ever. I don’t know what else to say. God Almighty will never forget you all. The Children were too happy, all their prayers were for Catholic World Mission. God bless you all. Everybody in the city and community came to see the new changes at Broadrick School in Enugu. Thank you all. I am so proud of Catholic World Mission.”

More pictures are on their way, but for now, here’s a video of the students celebrating their new roof. Thank you for all you’ve done for these little ones!

February 2018

Felicia has sent us more pictures! Take a look at the picture carousel below!

January 2018

Our partner Felicia is in Nigeria for the next few months to oversee the rebuilding of Broadrick Street Primary School’s new roof! She’s been able to hire laborers and purchase lumber. The old roof has also been removed! Below, you can see photos of Felicia meeting with teachers, lumber and laborers arriving at the school, a picture that shows the disrepair of the old roof, and the school after the roof was removed.

This project is still accepting donations. On the day of Felicia’s departure, we were only able to send one third of the funds needed to complete the roof. We had a great outpouring of generosity and a new surge of gifts in response to our January edition of “The Harvest” e-newsletter, placing the remaining need at $10,000.

Please pray for Felicia and Broadrick Street Primary School.

Click through the image carousel below to see more photos of the progress!

October 2017

Here’s a quick video of the littles in Nigeria sending their love and THANK YOUs to Catholic World Mission donors. You’ll see them hold up their brand new school workbooks and nutritious snacks. They’re saying, “Thank you, Catholic World Mission! We are very happy!”

Aren’t they cute?!

Click through the images below to see the progress during construction:

Access to education is one of the key stepping stones for a person to escape poverty. Poverty in Nigeria is extreme, with many families living on less than $2 per day. Your gift today will give a child in Nigeria the quality education he or she needs to build a hopeful future.

Your dollars go far in Nigeria:

• $25 provides simple workbooks for 160 students
• $50 provides workbooks for an entire school (about 300 students, ages 4-16)
• $100 gives rice—a staple of the Nigerian diet—to feed one child for 50 days
• $250 feeds 125 children for one day

Please keep these schools, their students, and all teachers and staff members in your prayers.

Give today so a child in Nigeria has the tools she needs to escape poverty.

Shipping Hope

Unlike Ghana, Nigerians fall prey to illness more familiar to us, such as diabetes and heart disease. Medicines are selected carefully to ensure the areas are receiving what is most needed. Additionally, we were able to stock the local hospital in Nnewi with pediatric and regular-sized hospital beds–a valuable commodity. Too often, patients here are turned away from the hospital due to lack of beds and medicines to treat them.