residential home for boys

Our children’s home at Ibeshe, Ikorodu, accommodates up to 34 boys at a time, ranging in age from 7 to 17, all of whom we place back in school or in some form of vocational training. Efforts continue whilst they are there, to reunite them with family and, where this is not possible, to establish and maintain regular contact with family members.

reception centre

CLL runs a drop-in Reception Centre at Gbagada, that sees approximately 90 girls and boys a week, coming in every day for two meals, a chance to shower and rest in a safe environment, basic medical checks and health care, classes in basic literacy and life skills, help and counselling, and family tracing services.

OWORO BACK-TO-SCHOOL PROJECT

In this deprived part of Lagos, many children are out of school due to poverty. Although state schools are free, there are nevertheless associated costs that parents here can’t afford (uniforms, shoes, books, registration fees – in some cases the children haven’t even got birth certificates and need to be helped with that process as well before they can be registered in a school). In 2020 CLL started a project to get 100 primary age children into school (or back into school where they had dropped out due to poverty) over a three-year period, placing the children in public schools, paying all educational costs, and providing psycho-social support. With support from the community, we have organized extra classes for the children after school and during the holidays to help them catch up on their missed schooling. We hope to be able to support these children through primary school and higher education.

In addition, we are building the capacity of families through training on parental care, child protection and safe guarding, and the rights of the child under the Child Rights Act of Lagos State. Working with community leaders and local government, we are also building the economic capacity of families through crafts and skills acquisition courses for women.

Ford Foundation and the Consortium for Street Children/Red Nose Day have supported us for the first year of the project; we need your help to support these children going forward.

You can see more on the Oworo project here.