Since 2014, 128 babies have been born in one Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Abuja. The camp midwife uses polythene bags as gloves to deliver the babies. Pregnant women (including service men's wives and widows) have no access to medical centres and cannot afford their babies' essential needs due to poverty. Our goal is to provide mothers and their newborns with essential needs such as clothing and toiletries and medical supplies of gloves, first aid kits etc., for the first year.
Mothers and their newborns living in IDP camps lack the essential items needed to cater for them in the first month. These items include clothing and toiletries. The midwives in the camps do not have the materials such as gloves, personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to deliver the babies in the right conditions.
ACORN Initiative will provide clothing, toiletries, medicine and child-delivery supplies to the IDP camp for the families with newborn babies and the midwives' team for one year.
To set up a standard health centre within the IDP camp. In addition, sponsor the training of 15 birth assistants and 25 healthcare assistants within the camp. Provide families with skills acquisition training in petty trading, tailoring, small-scale farming as a means to provide them with income for self-efficacy.
