The project will build a geriatric home in Kuje Area Council a densely populated rural settlement in the federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria to house and retain aged population for care, diagnosis and treatment of geriatric diseases & ailments, and create support network, social interaction, knowledge & experience sharing among the aged in Kuje. The project will utilize an available land space strategically situated within a clustered population of poor, marginalized and disadvantaged aged.
Kuje area council has a large number of clustered aged population, who are mostly marginalized from interventions targeted at alleviating health and livelihood challenges. Despite the health and social fragility of old age, the aged often resort to streets begging, majorly for money, food, clothes and shelter for survival. All these have aggregated into insecurity, social deprivation, poor health, increased morbidity and mortality. The project will affect 50 disadvantaged aged residing in kuje.
Women Friendly Initiative (WFI) provides social support & health care for the aged. The project will build a 50-person capacity geriatric home for marginalized and vulnerable aged population in Kuje. This structure will be a health and social support center for old persons to receive medical care and support, form aged network for knowledge sharing and social support. This will meet the immediate and future health and social needs of old persons within and around the Federal Capital Territory.
The project will provide a social and health care facility for 50 aged persons facility to improve health and social well-being of the aged population within and around Kuje Area Council. This will reduce street begging, exploitation and social deprivation of the aged in Kuje,Nigeria.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
