Friends-In-Need Foundation is made up of a group of people who have a common interest in giving back to society through services particularly targeted at the rural people. Having each originated from and grown up in the rural areas, the members of the Leadership Team have first-hand knowledge of the problems and limitations of the rural people. We are therefore out to make a difference in their lives.
We are primarily out to address some of the more critical problems of rural people through enlightenment and provision of some of the primary needs of the people that enhance quality of life, such as basic health education, good drinking water, safety awareness and environmental protection. As a part of our contribution to society, we will be a positive influence to the youth and help to steer them to usefulness, giving no room to wastage or their being a nuisance in the community. See our services.
We take our activities in tranches, addressing particular issues and needs as they arise, taking the people’s priorities into account. These priorities vary from place to place.
A social issue that needs urgent attention in the Nigerian society today is the lingering youth joblessness. This Foundation plans to provide the youth with the necessary guidance to self-employment as an interim or permanent measure for individuals to address the problem.
The acute shortage of well-equipped medical facilities across Nigeria makes healthcare delivery an uphill task. As such, many avoidable deaths have occurred among the people. Friends-In-Need Foundation plans to organize social and preventive healthcare campaigns to educate the rural people, in particular, on the basic Do’s and Don’ts of good health management. The teaching of basic personal hygiene practices as well as handling of foods and drugs is a high priority based on what we know.
We shall use the expertise available among us and also co-opt Laboratory Scientists and attendants in this exercise. This is important as most of our rural population go to Chemists and Medical Labs first when they become ill. Invariably, everybody now knows the random diagnoses of Typhoid and Malaria emanating from Laboratories and the attendant prescriptions for them often excluding medical doctors from exercising their professional rights over patients. Sickle Cell Anaemia and HIV/AIDS will continue to get their deserved attention. Potable water supply is a major concern. Long term plans will be rolled out to provide same through water well drilling, depending on the available resources. As an interim measure, lectures will be given on means of making locally available water fit for drinking through boiling and filtering.
The Chairman/CEO of Friends-In-Need Foundation, Sir Adolphus Ekejiuba, KSJI, is a retired geologist who worked with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. He is an avid world traveler and philanthropist, contributing significantly to his community development and well-being of the less privileged. He is also the founder of the Adolphus Ekejiuba Foundation, a philanthropic organization aimed to reach out to Nigerian youth to curtail restiveness, laziness, ignorance and contracting diseases.
