Living Hope Care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) Society
Founded in 1994; Incorporated with Corporate Affairs Commission and registered with Osun State Government
Office Address: AD2 Ajegunle Street, Oke Omiru, Ilesa, Osun state.
About Us
•The Organisation name is Living Hope Care for PLWHA Society (LIHOC)
•Founded in 1994
•Incorporated with Cooperate Affairs Commission and registered with Osun State Government
•Office Address: AD2 Ajegunle Street, Oke Omiru, Ilesa, Osun state.
LIHOC Vision and Mission
VISION
•Promoting Positive Living and Happy Homes
MISSION:
•To Work in partnership with stakeholders to provide holistic care and support for PLWHA and their families including orphans and vulnerable children, and also to educate the community at large on the broader issues of HIV/ AIDS and reproductive health in Nigeria.
Lihoc's Activities
CONSULTING
Living hope Care for people with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) society functions to work in partnership with stakeholders to provide holistic care and support for PLWHA, and their families including orphans and vulnerable children.
Learn MoreThe Team
THE TEAM
HUMAN RESOURCE/MANAGEMENT TEAM CEO, /Project coordinator, Project accountant, M&E Officer, clerical Officer, Trainers. All the management team are full time officers and have stay on the post for more than eight years. Volunteers include medical doctor(s), social workers, Legal adviser, Counselors. The Board (BOT) has been fulfilling the statutory obligations for LIHOC as a NGO by guarantee registered in Nigeria. They ensure that LIHOC complies with Nigeria and Donors statutory regulations, provide policy guidance to LIHOC on the advice of the national coordinator (who is responsible for the management and operations of the secretariat) They meet regularly where the executive director report to the Board of Trustees on manages of all employees of the organization and interacts with Donors, Members and other key stakeholders. LIHOC trustees are well-known and experienced activists, advocates or heads of organizations doing work related to HIV and AIDS (including law); they are recruited on a personal capacity and served as volunteers. Trustees are always Nigeria
Mrs Ibiyemi Fakande
C.E.O
A remarkable Nigerian by the name of Fakande Ibiyemi founded the organization in 1994. A former nurse, she started the organization after a man was brought into her hospital who had tried to hang himself after learning he had contracted HIV. Today, Ms. Ibiyemi’s organization offers support, job training, free meals, micro-credit, and treatment for more than 2,000 people living with HIV.***
orphans & vulnerable children support
•To promote essential services for OVC in dire need
•To increase the skill of caregivers to care for OVC
•To improve community mobilization on OVC care and support
LIHOC"S skills acquisition programme in partnership with american jewish society {ajws}
The issue?
About 45% of Osun state residents are unemployed. Large number of young people in this area and youth unemployment is high. A lack of basic skills makes it difficult for individuals to secure employment and families continue to experience extreme poverty. Parents depend on their children in old age, so it is crucial that their children secure jobs. African women seem strong, however their social position is determined by their husbands and single women with families find themselves marginalized
Introduction
The Apprenticeship in Tailoring, Event and Floral Decoration Program is a project which comprises young people aged 13 - 28 years who: have been forced to drop out from school or did not have an opportunity to get any formal education.
Objectives: Empowerment of 50girls and 10 boys by building up their professional capacity in one year, Enable the youth to find employment after graduation, based on skills acquired during their apprenticeship and Enhancement of the abilities of single mothers.
Although the importance of sewing has been recognized as a vocation integrated into the Life Skills. The topics, which catered for training girls as mothers and home economists include Family Clothing Decision, creative crafts like crocheting and knitting, identification and care of textile in the home.
Those were three of the successful outcomes of LIHOC grassroots projects through past AJWS grants.
a cross section of sewing machines
Cross section of hairdressing equipmentNOTABLE SPONSORS
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: Community and Home-Based Care and Support for PLHA and PABA
Date: July 2001 – June 2004
Amount: $182,683
Funders: USAID
Summary: Major activities identified for implementation included in-depth assessment, production and distribution of BCC materials, skills acquisition for PLHA, media program, training of outreach workers, and establishment of counseling center
As a result of the commencement of the FHI/IMPACT Project in 2001, Living Hope Care embarked upon advocacy visits to government functionaries, line ministries, traditional rulers etc.
The Government in 2002 gave Living Hope care a space, having 2 bed spaces and free medical services at State hospital Ilesa.
The space has served as a short-stay clinic and meeting place of the Support Group. To date Over 3500 PLWHA have been reached and served with services like counseling access to ART, PMTCT health care, food & nutrition, economic empowerment, protection, shelter
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE (AJWS)
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: Improving HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Interventions for the PLWHA with special emphasis on the most at risk population (MARP) in Osun and Cross River States of Nigeria.
Date: July 2005 – June 2014
Amount: $150,000
Funder: AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE
Summary: Major activities identified for implementation included advocacy and sensitization, community mobilization, training of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in counseling,
Referral, training of outreach workers, training of PLHA as peer counselors, advocacy and sensitization, brothel identification, peer education, counseling, linkages with health facilities, condom education and distribution,
LIHOC greatest success, working with grassroots organization, the Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) has proved a great success in this project
LIHOC identified and conduct advocacy visit to churches and mosques one hundred and twenty seven (127) TBAs in five local government area of Osun State identified and their capacity strengthen in HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT), Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) and integrate HCT activities with TBAs clinics on HIV transmission Prevention
WORLD BANK HPDP11/HAF/O-SACA PROJECT
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions for Pregnant Women, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), Female Sex Worker and General Populace in Six Local Government Area Osun Nigeria.
Date: June 2014 – November 2015
Amount: N11, 836.00
Funder: WORLD BANK
Summary: Major activities identified for implementation included advocacy and community dialog and mobilization, training of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in HCT, Referrals, advocacy and sensitization, brothel identification, MPPI peer education, linkages with health facilities, Consistent Correct use condom education and distribution,
Three hundred and forty (340) sessions of community awareness on HIV/TB prevention conducted: 13,765 General Population 505 FSW,3525Preganat mother and 204 TBAs reached three (3) special events that include World AIDS, World TB Day and Word Hand Washing Day conducted and One hundred twenty eight (128) newly diagnosed PLWHIV were referral to free ART sites, TB Screening Services,
COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: Collaborate with ART site in State Hospital Ilesa to Health Education on Positive Living for PLWHA, Adherence and Compliance and Skill Acquisition for PLWHA at the ART site in Ilesa
Date: 2013 to date
Amount: N28, 352,550
Funder: Pa Awomolo
Collaborate with ART site in State Hospital Ilesa
Awearness creation conducted among general populace on HIV and AIDs, Testing and referral of positive clients to ART site at State Hospital Ilesa. Since inception 476 placed on drugs 9 children and 47 yet to be placed
Skill Acquisition
Since inception, 350 PLWHA and Older Vulnerable Children in Oriade, Ilesa East, Ilesa West and Obokun have being reached in apprenticeship (fashion designing, event and floral decoration, catering, soap and disinfectant making, Hairdressing, barbing, photographer, computer, agriculture, Garri processing, shoe and bag making Program).
LIHOC/HWWN-USAID ACCORD PROJECT
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: ACCORD project supported 6+1 services for OVC. These services includes; Psychosocial, Health Care, Food & Nutrition, Education, Protection, Shelter & Care and Income Generating.
Date: July 2008 and June 2013
Amount: N90, 925, 809.00
Funder: USAID
In July 2008, Hope Worldwide Nigeria collaborated with Living Hope Care to render services and support for 6,586 vulnerable children in 22 Communities spread across 17 Local Government areas in Osun State.
The ACCORD project which LIHOC implemented between July 2008 and June 2013 was an intervention that reached the poorest of the poor VC in the state and provided them with compassionate care and support that met their physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social needs.
These supports provided by the project go a long way in improving the lives of VC and their household in the project communities in Osun state.
Fundamentally, the project had significant impact in the state as it focused on strengthening the abilities of families and communities to provide supportive services, such as food, nutrition, education, livelihood and vocational training to VC within the focal project locations. 2008 and June 2013 was an intervention that reached the poorest of the poor VC in the state and provided them with compassionate care and support that met their physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social needs.
These supports provided by the project go a long way in improving the lives of VC and their household in the project communities in Osun state.
Fundamentally, the project had significant impact in the state as it focused on strengthening the abilities of families and communities to provide supportive services, such as food, nutrition, education, livelihood and vocational training to VC within the focal project locations.
In order to make activities of service delivery efficient for the project Hope, Worldwide Nigeria (HWWN) provided equipment including the following: 1 13KVA Generator, 5 desktop computers, 1 digital camera, 2 air condition, 2 printers, 1 photocopier machine, 3 motor bikes and 9 still cabinets
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: Farming
Date: July 2015 to date
Amount: N3,000,000
Funder: LIHOC/Word Bank/ British Tobacco company
Living Hope Care Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited
We had support from USAID but they closed in 2012 due to some challenges and we went to the community to ask for support
Living Hope Care Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited scale up and cultivate 25acres of cassava with 50% support from FADAMA world bank project. 10acres orange fleshed potatoes by the cooperative and 10 acres Maize /cassava with 50% from support of British Tobacco company project, among 4 (2 female 2male) older CV and 6 (5 Female 1 male) caregivers in Esa Oke Obokun LGA
INTERNATIONAL BREWERIES PLC
Organization: Living Hope Care (LIHOC)
Project Type: Supply of waste product and World AIDs Day celebration
Date: December 2013 to date
Amount: N5, 000,000
International Breweries PLC gave us their waste in term of empty drums, malt sacks, kegs etc. and was sold and the money were used to provide educational support, nutritional and economic empowered PLWHA and their family.
LIHOC have a permanent site, a store building, an apartment with 16 rooms in the core center of the city Ilesa with portable water electricity, 5 desktop computers, 1 printers, 1 photocopier machine and three motor bikes.
AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT FOR FARMERS
LIVING HOPE CARE FOR PLWHAS SOCIETY
Farmers Training Programme
TITLE-OPERATION FEED THE VULNERABLE CHILDREN.
Introduction of Living Hope Care/Farmers' Training Programme (LIHOCFTP)
Living Hope Care/Farmers' Training Programme (LIHOCFTP) will be a farmer-based training programme under the auspices of Zenababs Farm Project, Esa-Oke, State of Osun
GOAL
To feed 7,000 orphans in the six political zones of the State of Osun by the year 2016
Objective
The programme will be set up to train practicing and would-be farmers, especially the Older Vulnerable Children (OVC) youth, equip them with the requisite knowledge and skills to enable them engage in sustainable commercial agricultural enterprises while at the same time protecting the environment.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Environmental Sanitation
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilizing communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (Open Defecation Free). This activity came to being as a result of the sensitization program conducted in the community where it was brought to notice that most disease in the community was due to dirty environment. Some of the prevalent diseases in the community were cholera, diarrhea, and Malaria.
In view of this, CAAIDS/LIHOC in collaboration with Rural-Urban Water Environmental Sanitation Agency (RUWESA), paid an advocacy visit to the council of chiefs in 4 selected communities. This advocacy visit was targeted at making the chiefs and royal councils to see the havoc dirty environment, open defecation and dirty water does to members of a community. It was this advocacy visit that gave birth to a sensitization program done at the community.
This sensitization was done for four days where in more than 400 persons were present. Members of the community were made to understand through mapping, transect walk and the F-diagram that they have been eating fasces all these while due to lack of toilet, resulting in open defecation.
In conclusion, they made up their mind that they want to put an end to OD and to that effect, a committee called water and sanitation committee (WASHCOM) was formed. The good news is that as the time of this report, (125) new toilets have been dug. .
THE RELENTLESS COMBAT AGAISNT THE EPIDEMIC HIV/AIDS DISEASE
implementation and support
Human Resources: Project staff lacks capacity on project coordination and administration. They were unable to capture data/report as expected.
Office infrastructure has depreciated
Supply of testing kit was inadequate: Increasing demand for HIV testing and in ability to meet the demand
Experiment organizations that sent volunteer to Nigeria have remove Nigeria from their list due to security situation
Collegial Relationship
LIHOC has good working relationship with tertiary institutions and expertise on HIV issues in Nigeria. They provide technical assistance for us in achieving our goal. Rarely, do we not have conversation with them in a month and their inputs have gone a long way in our project implementation and resource mobilization.
Capacity building of LIHOC and Partners: Within the first year of 2013 (which is the first year of two years project), partners have received various basic skills in HIV/AIDS issues and this has helped them to do their work accordingly and also to reach out to over five thousand (11770) most at risk populations, which is 80% of two years target.
Access to HIV prevention strategies: the fantastic and thrilling radio-media outreach has helped to reach beyond boundaries as people come from other states seeking for information on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health services (counseling). Trained Peer educators are committed at various secondary schools of intervention both in Osun and Cross River states.
Access to positive living: Since the inception of ART in Nigeria in 2002, Ilesa and its environs have being thirsty for ART centre at the secondary facility level which was established this year 2013 through the support of FHI,HYGEIA ,APIN and IHVN in collaboration with the Nigeria government in three of our project site Iwo, Ilesa and Ijebu-jesa.
LIHOC work in two states and in 6 communities with following achievement;
Integrations of HIV testing and counseling (HTC) help women know their HIV status improve their knowledge and increase their protective behaviors, particularly among those who test HIV-positive in grass root community it is a form of scaling up PMTCT program.
In Nigeria with generalized epidemics, LIHOC introduced rapid expansion of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling in maternal-newborn-child health (MNCH) settings, and particularly antenatal care has been an effective way of increasing uptake of PMTCT services. LIHOC introduced routine offer of HIV testing in 2008 and within six (6) years, the proportion of pregnant women tested for HIV increased from 10% to 98%. Scaling up efforts for PMTCT has started to show an impact, with the proportion of HIV-positive pregnant women receiving antiretroviral treatment for PMTCT increasing from 2% in 2008 to 99% in 2015 (more than 97% increase). This benefits both the health of these mothers and also prevents HIV transmission to their children during pregnancy and breastfeeding under this project.
Mass media intervention has tremendously helped to address a range of related health effects, using behavioral change communication strategies.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Rotimi Tayo, Professor, Osun University, Chairman,
Doyin Adelekun,Engr, Consultant Engineer, Member,
Funke Siji-Mabeweje, Mrs, Coca-Cola, Lagos, Secretary,
Olu Akinkoye, Dr, University of Ibadan, Member,
Ibiyemi Fakande, Ms, Living Hope Care, Member,
Contact Us
- AD 2, Ajegunle Street, Oke-Omiru, P O Box 173, Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria., Ilesa, Osun
- 08038209445 - Living Hope Care for people living with HIV/AIDS Society
- lihocplwha@gmail.com
- Working hours Monday:09:00am - 5:00pm Tuesday:09:00am - 5:00pm Wednesday:09:00am - 5:00pm Thursday:09:00am - 5:00pm Friday:09:00am - 5:00pm Saturday:Closed Sunday:Closed
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