Odibu Foundation
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Mission Statement
Odibu Foundation seek to provide mobile health care to address the problem of poor health access in Nigeria at no cost to patients. We also seek to provide care for transmissible diseases such as HIV, as well as conditions like diabetes, hypertension, malaria, diarrhea, malnutrition, gastro-intestinal issues, respiratory tract infections and cholerae. And our foundation is dedicated to relieving the suffering and uncertainty of Nigeria underprivileged children, youth and women through quality, relevant education, health care and life- training skills for economic self- sustenance and human rights. These individuals become victim to the shackle of poverty where the simplest necessities of life such as food, shelter, clean water, health care and education are often not within their reach.
About This Cause
Challenge: The communities in Northern Cross River State, due to lack of knowledge, information and orientation in health and hygiene the grass root level villagers cannot understand the need of immunization, importance of growth monitoring, technique of low cost nutritious food preparation, different methods of birth control, spacing between two children, importance using sanitary or pit type latrine, preparation of safe drinking water, maintenance of personal hygiene and disposal of waste products from the home and practices to maintain good health. In fact sound health deteriorates here with the increase of superstition and wrong method of treatment. So the incidence of maternal mortality, child mortality, morbidity, dehydration and malnutrition rate and other infectious diseases are quite high as per our community diagnosis. The existing Dai are not qualified so they cannot diagnosis in the case of high-risk pregnancies properly. The quacks are not trained. They depend on limited indigenous knowledge. The diversity and multiplicity of the problem can be decreased with some comprehensive program in this matter. At the time of feeling pain, they have to take to distant primary health center but on the way the pregnant women face great problem. Sometime the pregnant women are compelled to give birth their children under the open sky. So most of the patients have to go to town but some of them die in the street. Health care in Nigeria is not accessible, affordable, or high+quality as the residents of Nigeria deserve. Nigeria has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world.16% of children die before their fifth birthday from complete preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhea. When treatment is many miles away, it is expensive to get to it, and many Nigerians simply cannot afford to get to a hospital or do not have transportation. So we need to make affordable, high-quality healthcare more accessible to all Nigeria. Solution: The Odibu Foundation seeks to provide mobile healthcare to address the problem of poor health access in Nigeria at no cost to patients. We seek to provide care for transmissible diseases such as HIV, as well as conditions like diabetes and hypertension. We are also concerned with providing specialized care for family planning. This would include access to free birth control, as well as pre-natal and post-natal care and care for infants. Odibu Foundation will provide direct care like medication to our communities, as well as the knowledge and tools needed to protect against preventable death. For example, Odibu Foundation will provide mosquito netting treated with insecticide, as well as anti-malarial drugs. The foundation will provide contraceptive to assist in family planning and to prevent the spread of diseases like HIV/AIDS. The foundation clinic will treats patients for a range of concerns including malaria, malnutrition, gastro-intestinal issues, and respiratory infections. The clinic will operates free of charge and pairs private and public support to ensure the best quality care. The foundation would also offer direct funding, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment to local and partner healthcare facilities and coordinate with them to offer physical therapy and advisory services, thus creating a stronger network of healthcare support for our community. Aside from offering solutions for patients who are already ill, the foundation will also offer education on how to prevent illness. Education is key to solving problems like teen pregnancy, illness door to unclean water, and health conditions caused by poor nutrition or unsafe sexual practices. The foundation would increase education offerings, which currently include workshops and family planning meetings. The foundation would offer health education in local schools and through community organizations that can draw many attendees. We have two levels of target beneficiaries. The first are our local and partner organizations, whom we would support with medications, equipment, and supplies. The second are our community members themselves. We do not wish to confine ourselves to a particular demographic – we hope to serve all Nigerians, because all Nigerians deserve access to quality, affordable healthcare and prevention. That being said, we do have a passion for working with family planning and pre/post-natal care for mother and infant. We realize that family planning and infant care are both crucial to the overall health and wellbeing of our entire community, as a healthy community necessitates healthy children, and healthy children are the products of healthy parents who are prepared to raise them and provide for them. In some remote areas of Nigeria, there simply are no efforts – there are no other clinics, practices, or hospitals operating. In these areas, we would provide direct family planning and preventative measures for common diseases, as well as our clinic. In areas where there are efforts being made, we improve on these efforts by supporting them. Where there are family practices or clinics, we provide them with supplies, medication, and education assistance. Odibu Foundation approach is unique in that we are not trying to compete with other healthcare providers in our community by offering more innovative services – we instead aim to support other healthcare facilities so that they can continue doing their work to serve our population. By allowing others to provide direct care where possible while we play a background role of offering supplies and education, we can reach more people and strengthen community health for everyone while ensuring that all those delivering healthcare are educated on topics surrounding communicable diseases, common health ailments, family planning, and reproductive health. Long-Term Impact; As the program becomes more established and widespread, Odibu Foundation hope to put into place a more formal assessment plan. Firstly, the foundation we work with their partner and local organizations to track what supplies, medications, and pieces of equipment are donated. Their partner organization will then track how many patients utilize the donated materials and how much money per patient is saved by not having to purchase the material out of pocket. The foundation will thus have a better grasp of how many people they are helping and how much money they are able to save them. At our own clinic, in addition to tracking how many patients they serve and how many visits each patient has, the foundation will track patient follow-through, meaning odibu Foundation will look at whether each patient filled their prescriptions, showed up for physical therapy, and/or saw a significant in their primary health concerns within 3 months to a year after their visit. The foundation will want more longitudinal data about our patients so that they can see how their health changes over time based on the changes they do or not make to their everyday lives as a result of meeting with a practitioner. Odibu Foundation hope to scale in three ways. Firstly, hope to be able to open more clinics in rural communities that currently do not have a healthcare facility within easy reach of its citizens. This would multiply the number of patients we directly serve manifold. Secondly, Odibu Foundation will scale by offering management of chronic health conditions in our population. Thirdly, the foundation will scale by offering increased educational programming through schools, local partners, and community organizations and would like to offer more diverse arrays of educational options, including virtual learning and apps that can help people learn about diet, exercise, and pre-natal health and others. By offering education on reproductive issues, family planning, prevention of common communicable disease, and how to deal with chronic conditions, the foundation we not only touch the community members who attend the programme, but the friends, family, and neighbors with whom they share knowledge. To scale in this way, the foundation will need to hire more staff, gain more funding for purchasing medications, supplies, and equipment, and obtain support to build more clinics. If we are able to scale as widely as we would like, the entire health landscape of Nigeria could look different. We would hope to see fewer child deaths, fewer deaths of mothers, fewer deaths from preventable/communicable diseases, fewer child pregnancies. And the more the foundation educate young people in our communities, the better chance Nigeria has of cutting down unnecessary deaths and creating a healthy, sustainable collective future. And we would give thousands of Nigerians to medications they need to manage their conditions, as well as preventative tools to keep them from getting sick in the future. We are appealing to partners home and abroad that share our values and wish to help our cause. In keeping with our pledge of transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility, all resources secured will be used in keeping with highest moral, ethical and legal standards. And hope that your homes will be filled with light and May Almighty God bless you. Keep up the great work and remember you're doing something absolutely incredible. Thank you again!