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The Fair Life Gist: True Independence

Did you know that across Nigeria, an estimated 18.3 million children are currently out of school? That’s 10.2 million children of primary-school age and 8.1 million at the junior-secondary level! And this statistic is based on a 2024 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, so it isn’t hear-say.

What this means is that roughly 15% of the global out-of-school cumulative stems from Nigeria, especially the rural and northern regions.

When a child is locked out of the classroom for any reason, it creates a chain reaction that traps families in cycles of poverty and vulnerability…

What Is The Spring Initiative Really About?

The Spring Initiative is the newest charity programme of Fair Life Africa Foundation. It was created to meet the needs of desperate and vulnerable people, in line with our mission “to alleviate poverty and suffering from our society.”

The easiest way to picture it is a spring of clean water. Generous givers pour into it. Anyone who is desperate or vulnerable can come and drink from it…

Displaced Families Need Help to Make a New Start

To residents of Jakande community and the popular ‘Ghana School’ area, Monday 11th March 2024 would always be remembered as a day of Destruction and Displacement. It was a day they were given the matching orders by the Lagos State Government from a place they had called home for years. For residents, any air of…

Valentine’s Day at Pinefield Schools

The world over, Valentine Day is a day set aside to show love, not just between couples, but to friends, family, and neighbors. In the spirit of love, Pinefield Schools, Lekki usually extend an invitation to their adopted children for their Annual Valentine’s Day Event. This year’s theme was ‘God is Love,’ with the text…

A Mother’s Testimony: How FLA Has Impacted My Life

As published on GlobalGiving.org on 29/08/2022. We reached out to one of our sponsored children’s guardians for a testimony, and this is what she wrote: Dear Sponsor, My daughter, Precious, joined FLA Kids in 2018, and since then it has an amazing experience for her and a dream come true for me, cos we were…

Just in Time for Christmas…

It’s been a tough year for Mary, but it seems she has a guardian angel… Mary met her sponsor, Yinka, for the first time at our Valentine’s Brunch, which held at Foodies, Lekki, this year. They had time to chat and get to know more about each other, and Mary shared about some of her…

COVID-19 Relief – Impacting Lives With SAGE Foundation

With the media awash with tales of new cases, recoveries, and in unfortunate circumstances, death, it’s been a severe battle, especially for medical professionals on the front lines, against the novel corona virus pandemic. Governments all over the world have enforced weeks and months, in heavily affected areas, of lock-down to curtail the spread of…

2020 Valentine’s Brunch with the FLA Kids

Written by Nishola Akinyera The St. Valentine’s Day is celebrated in many ways worldwide, on the 14th February, as a day when people show feelings of love, affection and friendship. It is a day to express love for everyone who is dear to us. It is a day to thank people, whosoever they are, for…

Our Independence Celebration Outing to Terra Kulture

This year, in honour of Independence Day, we took the FLA Kids on another outing to Terra Kulture on Sunday the 29th of September, to enjoy a culturally insightful drama, titled “Night Food”. It was an interesting comedy, depicting the typical African family. 25 of our children were able to attend, and they all enjoyed…

FLA Summer Programme 2019 – Leaders Of Tomorrow, Today!

We would like to announce that our Summer Camp Programme, themed “Leaders of Tomorrow, Today”, will be coming up from the 5th through the 11th of August, this year. The summer programme is aimed at enlightening the FLA Kids on different topical issues concerning the Nigerian politics today, how it affect their day to day…

An Interview With Ramon The Artist

We’ve submitted our latest GlobalGiving report, and would love to share it with you. You can read it and our other reports by visiting our Project Page, where you can also make a donation towards our work. God bless you! *** Ramon was one of the top five winners of our Talent Search Competition with…

A Christmas To Remember

Our latest GlobalGiving report has been approved! We thought we would share it with you here. We also posted pictures about our Christmas event on our website HERE. To read this and previous reposts on GlobalGiving, do check out our project page HERE. *** Last year, we put in all effort to make it a…