By Ugbede-Ojo Dominic Kadiri | Project Leader
Imagine your child waking up with a high fever, struggling with diarrhoea, an infection, an untreated injury, or becoming weaker each day from poor nutrition. You know your child needs medical attention, but the nearest health facility is far away. There is no money for transport, tests, treatment, or medicines. For many displaced families in Benue and Jos, this is their reality.
Children living through displacement have already endured more than any child should. Many fled their communities following violent attacks and are now living with their families in displacement camps, host communities, and remote settlements. Leaving home can also mean losing regular access to clean water, nutritious food, sanitation, medicines, and healthcare.
This is why medical care for these children cannot wait. Malaria, diarrhoea, respiratory infections, wounds, malnutrition, and other illnesses that can be treated may become dangerous when a child cannot see a health worker early enough. For families who have lost their homes and livelihoods, even the cost of travelling to a clinic can stand between a sick child and treatment.
Through Save 320 Sick Displaced Kids with Medical Care, our medical team plans to take healthcare directly to 320 sick displaced children. Doctors, nurses, and other health workers will visit displacement camps, host communities, and remote settlements to examine children, carry out basic tests, provide medicines and treatment, attend to injuries, identify signs of malnutrition, and refer serious cases to hospitals.
A fever should not become life-threatening because a child's family was forced from home. An infection should not remain untreated because the nearest clinic is too far away. A sick child should not continue suffering simply because their parents cannot afford transportation or medical care.
These children have already survived violence and displacement. They deserve the chance to survive illnesses that can be treated.
To every donor who has supported this project, thank you. Your kindness gives us hope that we can reach these children where they are and bring medical care to families who may have nowhere else to turn.
Please continue to share this project with your friends, family, and colleagues. Every person who hears about these children brings us one step nearer to reaching them with the care they need.
Thank you for standing with displaced children when they need us most.
Ugbede-Ojo Dominic Kadiri
Project Leader
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