Restore sight to 200 villagers in rural Nigeria.

Our Dearest Family and Friends

I hope you are well and have had a good start to 2026.

We are delighted to report back on our successful annual medical outreach event held on 8^th and 9^th January 2026.

As in previous years, about 600 people attended over the 2 days and received free health advice, medical consultations, and medications relevant to their presenting problems and conditions.

Thirteen people received cataract operations, and this time we were able to operate on site. This is a significant achievement. We want to build on this and work towards providing other minor operations (e.g. hernia repairs, excision of uncomplicated lesions, joint injections, abscess drainage, sutures, etc).

We issued more small interest free loans and increased the number of people receiving free monthly reviews and medications for blood pressure.

We have carried out an assessment of our charity work and the impact we have made so far.  The evidence is of huge positive impact on beneficiaries’ health and wellbeing:

• 2 Day annual medical outreach - about 3600 people attended in 6 years since 2017 (excluding 2020 & 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic, and 2024 due to family circumstances). On average, about 500-600 people attended over the 2 days

• Two-day eye screening session in 2021 - 327 people attended

• Cataract operations -  35 people operated, 1 on both eyes

• Monthly medication maintenance programme - about 100 attend on a regular basis

• Small interest free loans - 100 people have benefited.

We thank you so much for your kind and generous support in making this happen.

With your support, we will continue to offer a helping hand to the less privileged and downtrodden in local communities in Nigeria.

Best wishes

Victoria and Ben

Our Dearest Family and Friends

I hope you are well and looking forward to the festive season.

We are in the last few weeks of finalising preparations for our next annual Medical Outreach on 8^th and 9^th January 2026.

The planning is tough going because of the huge level of needs and the resources to meet them. There are also security risks! However, our hope and faith are in ‘God to supply all that we need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.’

We will be doubling our efforts with our monthly Medication Maintenance Programme sessions by establishing a second centre for people to attend. As you may be aware, the sessions provide free blood pressure and diabetes checks, and monthly medication supplies.

Similarly, we will be providing more people with small interest free loans for small scale trading and farming activities. There is a huge demand for these loans because of the severe economic situations in Nigeria.

We look forward to sharing our outreach activities in our next report in March 2026.

We thank you for your kind and generous support for our work to improve the health and wellbeing of poor communities in rural Southeast Nigeria.

We hope you have a joyous and peaceful Christmas and wish you a prosperous year ahead.

Kind regards & God bless

Victoria and Ben