FAMILY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
Contact Information
- Postal Address *: P.O.BOX 284 LAFIA,NASARAWA STATE ,NIGERIA
- Office Location: BEHIND TA'AL MODEL SCHOOL,BUKAN SIDI, LAFIA ,NASARAWA STATE
- Region *: Nasarawa
- Country *: Nigeria
- City *: LAFIA
- Telephone *: +2348035891145
- Fax : NIL
- Email *: fahci2002@yahoo.com
- Website *:
Activities
- Vision *: AN EMPOWERED SOCIETY WHERE PEOPLE ENJOY IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE
- Mission *: TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND SOCIO ECONOMIC WELL BEING OF THE POOR AND VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA THROUGH PARTICIPATORY TRAINING ,ADVOCACY AND QUALITY SERVICE DELIVERY
- Thematic Areas *: Health Provision / Soins de Santé
- Target Group: Regional / Régionale,Community / Communauté
- Key Objectives *: • To ensure that mothers have safe motherhood through community mobilization, education and male involvement in reproductive health• To promote youth friendly reproductive health services • To promote the reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence through massive awareness campaign, counseling, care and support for people living with and affected by AIDS• Provide voluntary regulation of sexual, fertility, contraceptive information, and services on basis of informed choice and persuasion without and y coercive practices• To promote good and modern water sanitation and hygiene methods in rural areas• To improve economic standard through provision of micro credit to the rural and urban poor women and youths to set up small business• To conduct community needs assessment to identify areas of needs in the communities• To conduct trainings as a means of capacity building
- Core Competencies *: Advocacy / Plaidoyer,Capacities Development / Renforcement des Capacités
- Government Engagement:
More Information
- Major or Current Achievements *: FAHCI had made a significant achievements of improving the well being of the rural community people in 2016 through economic empowerment, specifically micro credit provision and agricultural enterprise and also reproductive health interventions especially HIV intervention, care and support, impact mitigation of HIV/AIDS, family planning, adolescent, water and sanitation, reproductive health information and services. The implemented activities yielded positive impact to the target communities as revealed by beneficiaries’ success stories during activity monitoring and evaluation exercise. FAHCI organization has disbursed N5, 216,000.00 micro credit funds to 352 active existing and new borrowers especially women of reproductive age in 94 communities of 3 LGAs for trading and farming business. Amount recovered from the activity was N733, 865.00 for the year under review. Demand creation for HCT was carried for 20,998 for both MARPs (Female sex workers, pregnant women, youths and general public who were reached with reproductive health information and services. These activities greatly increased participation of youths, women and men in RH activities and information seeking behavior as well as knowing their HIV status and also accessing services at designated health facilities in Nasarawa State. The organization intensifies HIV prevention activities through mobile HCT and trained 28 peer educators on Minimum Prevention Package Intervention (MPPI) for clients, female sex workers, pregnant mothers and Men having sex with Men as well as having access to HIV information and services. The number of clients that accessed HIV information and services was 5,196 (M- 2524 and F- 2672) were counseled and tested with 58 positive (M- 24 and F - 34) and were referred for further care and services Over 347 accessed family planning information and services such as condoms, noristerat, depo provera, Jadelle and Sayana Press were accessed at different health and non health facilities. Likewise over 2,446 pieces of condoms was distributed. FAHCI facilitated accessed to care and support services for 290 PLHIV through designated facilitators in the organization for both Nasarawa and Benue State (5 support groups in Nasarawa and 1 in Benue) respectively. This provided an opportunity for PLHIV to share their experiences and other basics information on reproductive health issues and other health related problem through support groups meetings. Within the year under review, the VC programming rendered services in the area of psychosocial, nutritional, educational, health, legal support and linkages to government and private establishment for vocational skill training for over 13,643 (M- 7315 and F - 6328) VC received one services or the other in Lafia and Obi LGAs.
- Functional Board *:
- Number of Board Members *: 7
- List Expertise of Board Members *: 1. Esala Sunday M.sc Public Administration Chairman 08036209172 2. Dinatu Anzaku F B. Education Member 08032891141 3. Yonah Emmanuel B.sc Pharmacy Member 08025730263 07035110065 4. Aisha Abisabo Nurse/Midwife Member 07032313483 5. Mary Ashenanye M.Sc Public Health Nurse Secretary 08035891145 6. Akawu Allu Dip. Land Administration Member 08052954226 7. Barr. Ovye E. Yakubu B.A LLB Member /Legal adviser 07035053232
- Organisational Strategic Plan *:
- Head of Organisation *: MARY NOKTILIK ASHENANYE
- Name of Contact Person *: MARY NOKTILIK ASHENANYE
- Position of Contact Person *: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Number of Staff *: 32
- Number of Males *: 19
- Number of Females *: 13