COVID-19 Emergency Support for OBF Youth Centre

The economic effects and uncertainties caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak can not be overemphasized. It has caused a significant global economic recession, in addition to its immediate impact on health outcomes and tragically on lives. During the first few months of the outbreak, the government focused on managing the spread of the disease through stringent transmission control measures. The lock-down led to the suspension of all forms of work for weeks hence, vulnerable and low-income families faced the risk of penury, starvation, and deprivation. With very little or no savings and poor social security, families were having fewer meals, borrowing money, purchasing on credits, and defying the safety guidelines and threat of police to go out and work to be able to put food on their table.

Against this background, the Ovie Brume Foundation with support from GlobalGiving COVID-19 Emergency Food Support provided food relief materials for the Ovie Brume Foundation’s Youth Center members. Seventy (70) economically disadvantaged families were identified in Orhuwhorun community in Udu LGA, whose children are members/beneficiaries of the Foundations' Youth Center.

In line with the set objectives of the project, members of the Foundation were contacted and evaluation conducted to ensure that the most vulnerable families were prioritized to receive the palliatives. This exercise was carried out on the 6^th of July. A list of 70 families was collated and grouped into three batches to ensure that beneficiaries would be able to get to the Foundations’ office within the hours allowed by the government and to avoid crowding thus observing the rule of social and physical distancing.

• GLOBAL_GIVING_MIROPROJECT_REPORT.pdf (PDF)