On the World Day of the Sick 2020, Caritas responds to neglected populations suffering from all the major diseases and to the health needs
Address: Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Plot 459 Cadastral Zone B2, Durumi, Abuja, Nigeria
Telephone: +234 80 3709 9291 / +234 81 1394 2132
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Caritas Nigeria -also known as Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN)- is the official relief and development arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria. Since its formal registration in 2010, it has successfully implemented several development interventions supported by diverse stakeholders ranging from governments, United Nations agencies, Caritas Confederation members, philanthropists, international aid agencies, and other faith-based organisations. In line with its vision of “a harmonious environment where everyone enjoys fullness of life”, Caritas Nigeria beneficiaries are selected based on need, regardless of religion, ethnicity or political affiliations.
Since its formal registration, Caritas Nigeria has reached millions of direct beneficiaries from interventions on its priority areas, such as Emergency Response & Humanitarian Services (reaching internally displaced persons and refugees); Health & HIV/AIDS interventions –including support to orphans and vulnerable children; Agriculture & Livelihoods support to vulnerable households (Food Security); Good Governance programs – on election observations, budget monitoring and citizens’ education; Institutional Capacity Strengthening; Anti-Human Trafficking and Forced Migration – including services to returnees; widows, unemployed youths, amongst others in hard-to-reach communities across Nigeria and overseas in solidarity and Institutional Development & Capacity Strengthening (ICS).
With regard to capacity building, Caritas Nigeria is the only organisation successfully offering the APMG accredited PMD-Pro training & certification in Nigeria and indeed West Africa. So far, the Caritas Nigeria Institutional Capacity Strengthening programme has assiduously trained and built capacities of thousands of health facility staff in rural communities, local partners in dioceses and over 500 development professionals in the country. Moreover, Caritas Nigeria is currently developing the National Data Repository (NDR) that supports the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) with an archive of the performance of every health facility providing HIV services in the country.
Caritas Nigeria’s country offices are in Abuja with two regional offices in Makurdi (Benue State) and Sokoto State and sub-offices in Lagos, Edo and Kebbi States. Nonetheless, there are also 56 local (diocesan) JDP/Caritas offices spread across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, making it easier for Caritas Nigeria to reach those most in need in hard-to-reach and underserved communities.
Updates from Nigeria
A High Level Conference on the Lake Chad Region is taking place in Berlin, Germany, 3-4 September. Africa’s Lake Chad region, which includes parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, is facing a massive humanitarian crisis driven by poverty, climate change and conflict.
Caritas is launching an emergency appeal as thousands of refugees flee violence in Cameroon in an under-reported humanitarian crisis.
More than 25,000 refugees have travelled across the border from Cameroon to Nigeria and dozens continue to arrive every week.
A partnership between Caritas Internationalis, the US the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and UNAIDS recently made it possible for key stakeholders to gather in Abuja, Nigeria and discuss the role of faith-based organisations in HIV prevention, care, treatment and support across Africa, with a focus on paediatric HIV. Faith-based organisations in ...
Caritas Internationalis is joining hands with UNAIDS, PEPFAR and Caritas Nigeria in supporting a regional consultation on the theme “Early Diagnosis and Treatment for HIV-positive Children: Strengthening Engagement of Faith-Based Organisations”. Visit the consultation website There will be 200 participants and experts from all parts of the world, coming together in Abuja, Nigeria on 14-16 ...
Caritas Nigeria staff member Samuel Akorokpor was attacked in Borno on 31 May by Boko Haram fighters. Akorokpor had been working the past couple of weeks in the north east along with other staff to provide relief and help to rebuild communities. He was returning to the field in southern Borno after attending a food ...
Caritas not only helps trafficked people by giving practical help and advice in towns and villages, but we also try to influence public opinion and advocate to key players as the Pope has called us to do.
130 human trafficking experts from Caritas and other faith organisations meet in Nigeria to discuss ways to end the crime.
Caritas Africa Info
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo Republic
- Congo (DRC)
- Cote D’Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Guinea
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
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- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
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- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe