October Babies!

We want to start a new thing on our blog…  We believe that this is a very good platform for communication, and to let our friends know much they mean to us.  Some of our friends are more active than others, but just knowing they are there is such an encouragement to us.  So, we…

Featured Sites

Last year, Fair Life Africa Foundation registered for the GlobalGiving Open Challenge to become a member of GlobalGiving UK.  With the help of our friends, we were able to raise above the £2,000 minimum from over 50 donors in just one month!  Because of this achievement, Fair Life Africa has retained a spot on the…

Project DDD with Braite Lites

Christmas is around the corner, and everyone is shuffling their accounts to make room for more giving in this charitable season.  The Braite Lites Charity Initiative has taken it upon itself to ease giving to worthy charities in December, by setting up Project DDD (simply Donation Drive 4 December).  They have picked Fair Life Africa…

“Spook Out Cancer” Party

Here is an innovative idea by Shimmers Production Services, to make good out of bad, to turn fear into faith.  This Halloween, they are planning a programme to raise awareness for the prevention of cancer, particularly breast and cervical cancer.  Fair Life Africa was called in to lend its voice to this initiative, and we…

A Day At The Beach

Today was a day that our boys will not easily forget…  Compelled by the need to fumigate, we decided to make it a day at the Beach, as the Home was being fumigated.  We invited a few friends to join us, and packed food, snacks, drinks, games and a football (donated by a new friend,…

A Night With The Boys

On Thursday the 4th, Toju Ashogbon came back to visit the boys at the Home with intent to spend the night.  He has been really helpful spreading awareness about the work, and thought that he’d also experience a night at the Home. Well, it must have been an experience for him, because the Home was…

September’s Newsletter is out!!

Every month, we like to update all our friends and supporters on our work, and celebrate those who have really made a difference through their contributions.  The e-newsletter is published at the end of each month, after our monthly birthday parties, and we encourage all our friends to subscribe, and help us spread the message….

Preparing For School

Our boys are going to school!  They are so excited to be given another chance at education.  All of their stories on how they ended up on the streets are different, but most of them will tell you that they want to go to school.  Sometimes, their guardians couldn’t, or may have simply refused to,…

Monthly birthday celebrations are back!

We started monthly birthday parties with the first set of boys we took in, and invited friends to come and celebrate their birthdays with us too.  After a short intermission, monthly birthday parties (MBPs) are back!  We sent the word out a couple of days before, and received three guests at the Home this Saturday….

Yemi and Friends Visit

On the 8th of September, Yemi Adedeji, Aima and Emi Ohiwerei, Victor Aboh and Olutayo Adeyinka visited the Home of Fair Life Africa on a special mission – to revamp its garden!  They came armed with a gardener, some tools and lots of cheerfulness!  The potentially burdensome task was turned into a thing of play,…

TJF Visits The Home

On the 13th of September, 2012, Fair Life Africa received a warm visit from our friends at Tosin Jegede Foundation (TJF).  TJF is a young non-profit organisation that specialises in education.  It initiated the 1Child1Book programme, which strives to place a book in the hands of every Nigerian child.  Its founder, Tosin Jegede, is also…

Celebrating with our Patrons

On the 22nd of September, 2012, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and his wife, Chief (Mrs) Rita Emerhor celebrated 25 years of marriage, and re-vowed to love one another faithfully.  The Emerhors are the patrons to Fair Life Africa Foundation, with Olorogun sitting as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.  A celebrated business man and chief, he sits…