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Food Banking & Farming
With support from individuals and corporate donors through the Lagos Food Bank Farm Funds, we create sustainable means of nutrition by establishing, supporting livestock and crop farming programs within our selected communities.
We strongly believe Food is essential to human existence. We are determined to create conditions that will allow people to thrive, systems that seek to alleviate hunger and combat aspects of multi-dimensional poverty by delivering food and disaster relief items. We champion food banking system in a front line model in the following ways:
- School feeding
- Community Nutrition based interventions
- Urban farming
- Job placement for beneficiary resilience and self sustenance
- Walk-in-beneficiaries
- Cloth Banking Nigeria
Fighting Hunger & Malnutrition
Lagos Food Bank is a non-profit, nutrition-focused initiative committed to fighting hunger, reducing food waste and solving the problem of malnutrition through targeted programs that seek to improve the nutrition/food intake of pregnant women and their infants who are not able to get the required nutrients during pregnancy and breastfeeding of their babies.
Our primary goal at LFBI is to reach out to:
- Children from ages 0-16
- Pregnant women and Lactating mothers
- Patients of diet related diseases
- Seniors from ages 50 years and above
- Destitute
- Extremely indigent families
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Family Farming Program
Problem Statement: In Nigeria, the unrelenting challenges of hunger, poverty, and malnutrition disproportionately affect vulnerable communities, creating a persistent cycle of deprivation. Access to nutritious food and economic stability remains an elusive dream for countless families, with women and youth in underserved areas bearing the heaviest burden of this
EDUFOOD
Problem Statement As a foundation for future learning, primary education is crucial for a child’s development, but currently, over 20 million Nigerian children are not attending school, according to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to UNICEF, about 10.5 million children are not in school even though
NUMEPLAN
Problem Statement According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 5 in 10 children under-five are malnourished (stunted, wasted or overweight) in Nigeria. As the largest economy and most populous country in Africa, Nigeria represents less than 2.5% of the world’s population, but accounts for 10% of
NIDS
Problem Statement Diabetes has become a multidimensional health concern in Nigeria. Nigeria has recognized the need of addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as fueled by urbanization, changed food trends, and hereditary causes, with over 11.2 million people living with this condition. The severity of the problem is worsened by the
Job Placement Programme
Problem Statement: The Nigerian unemployment rate has increased from 37.7% with further rise to 40.6% in view due to the continuing inflow of job seekers into the job market and by 2024 the unemployment rate will grow to 43%. This level of unemployment is a mirror image of the state of a nation’s economy which one of
TEFAP
. Problem Statement: The 11th Global Food Security Index (GFSI) published last year, showed that Nigeria ranked 107th (scoring 42.0 points) out of 113th countries globally in the food security index. This suggests that 12.9 %of the global population in extreme poverty was found in Nigeria as of 2022. In the
Food Bank Network Nigeria Program
Problem Statement Amid pressing global issues like food insecurity and hunger, there are numerous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) committed to mitigating the plight of vulnerable households by supplying food and other care resources. In the 2023 Global Hunger Index, Nigeria ranks 109th out of the 125 countries with sufficient data to
Cloth Banking Nigeria (CBN)
Problem Statement: The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in 2022 released a multidimensional poverty report stating that about 133 million people in Nigeria are multidimensionally poor, which means 63% of the population cannot afford basic necessities which includes: Food, Shelter and Clothing adequately. Over the years, clothing insecurity which
Agricultural Recovery Program (ARP)
Nigeria faces a considerable problem of food loss and waste, with an estimated 40% of all food produced going to waste. This is a significant loss considering the high levels of poverty and food insecurity in the country with over 130 million people living below the poverty line. Many
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Our Core Values
- Commitment: We are committed to solving hunger induced problems and providing related services
- Compassion: We are motivated by compassion to reach out to the poor
- Community: We collaborate with others who share our goals of a poverty free nation
- Connection: We build a community of people that connect with the needs of the most vulnerable in the society
- Contribution: We do whatever it takes to add value and contribute to deliver more services to our beneficiaries through shared goals and mutual support
Our Vision & Mission
To be the Nation’s leading Domestic Hunger relief organization that provides access to sufficient and nutritious food for all.
There are two parts to our Mission:
- To act as a front-line agency assisting those struggling with malnutrition and hunger across the country.
- To champion sustainable food security, nutrition, and empowerment, transforming communities and fostering equitable access to food resources throughout Nigeria.
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