Innovative Community Assistance to Restore and Empower
one village, one child, one school initiative
Mission
Innovative Community Assistance to Restore and Empower (ICARE) is a nonprofit organization established to fight hunger, support communities and empower families with children. A One Village, One Child, One School Initiative. Our mission focuses on Health Care, Education, Community Empowerment, and Eradicating Hunger in Africa communities. Our core values are education, empowerment, exposure, and equality for all people.
Notes from the nonprofit
Our core values are education, empowerment, exposure, and equality for all people. One Village, One Child, One School, Community Initiative.
Ruling year
2018
Founder/CEO
Prof. Raphael Afonja
Main address
28 Wilton Way Suite B
Sicklerville, NJ 08081 USA
EIN
83-1017700
NTEE code
Women's Centers (P83)
Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (S20)
Specialized Education Institutions/Schools for Visually or Hearing Impaired, Learning Disabled (B28)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Some of the novel initiatives include Malaria, TB control medical outreach, women development/empowerment programs, HIV and AIDS projects at community settings and workplace, community/ market-based distribution of health services, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) awareness projects, donating food and other materials to families, orphans and widows, giving out scholarship money to children, empowering people with disabilities, and renovating classrooms, library, and laboratory in public schools. Others include paid hospital bills of people referred for surgery, giving support to people that tested positive for HIV, and Distribution of Long Lasting Insecticides Nets (LLINs).
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Innovative Community Assistance to Restore and Empower (ICARE) is a nonprofit organization established to fight hunger, support communities and empower families with children. A One Village, One Child, One School Initiative. Our mission focuses on Health Care, Education, Community Empowerment, and Eradicating Hunger in Africa communities. Our core values are education, empowerment, exposure, and equality for all people.
Education
Majority of Nigerian families live on $26 or less a month. Due to high poverty, children from poor backgrounds do not have access to quality education. They attend schools that lack infrastructures like classrooms, library, technology, art and science labs. Our goal is to make sure that these schools become a more suitable learning environment with amenities that will support their education. We will deliver nutritious meals to these schools daily because no child should learn while hungry.
Women Empowerment
ICARE empowers women to start and grow their own business. We make sure they learn a business and vocational skills with earning power that they can use in their local markets. We give them a startup capital and enroll them in cooperatives so that they can begin to save and receive the supports they need. We also encourage them to get involved with different financial services.
Medical Outreach
A healthy community is a prepared community. ICARE provides access to medical testing, medical care, and community resources while encouraging a healthy habit. ICARE will continue to consolidate her technical expertise on health promotion, Advocacy and Community Social Mobilization, capacity building for a targeted audience, and strengthening health and community systems to improve service delivery as well as to promote ownership and sustainability of the projects implemented by the organization.
Food Bank Network
A significant number of children and seniors citizens in Nigeria and other parts of Africa are at risk of hunger. We respond to the hunger crisis in Nigeria by providing food security for families with children and senior citizens through a network of food banks. We partner with farmers in the communities that we serve and collaborate with corporation all over the world to meet the needs of these vulnerable people. ICARE makes sure people at all times have physical, social and economic access to safe and sufficient nutritious food.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of health education trainings conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have had and will continue to have medical outreach in communities that we serve.
Number of health/hygiene product and/or tools of care (mosquito nets, soap, etc.) administered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We buy and share mosquito nets in communities with high prevalence of malaria.
Number of job skills training courses/workshops conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Women and youths were trained in vocational skills such as fashion designing, hairdressing, soap making, bag making, carpentry, and home building.
Number of people tested for HIV
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have had several medical outreach and tested people for HIV, TB and Malaria. 3246
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have served and continue to distribute meals and groceries to senior citizens, widows, orphanage homes, children with disabilities, and families with children.
Number of schools repaired or expanded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have renovated classrooms for children with disabilities.
Number of people tested for TB
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have had several medical outreach and tested people for HIV, TB and Malaria.
Number of people tested for malaria
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have had several medical outreach and tested people for HIV, TB and Malaria
Number of individuals applying skills learned through the organization's training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Tailoring, hairdress, IT, Welding, Soapmaking, Agriculture
Number of individuals to whom medicines were distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We employ the help of local doctors during our medical outreach. We do radio and television announcement to inform the less privilege the opportunity to get a checkup and free medicine for free.
Number of children who receive new clothing, school uniforms, and shoes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children with a disability supported to live at home
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total dollars received in contributions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
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One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of organizational partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
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Number of clients who attain economic stability within two years of training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Women Empowerment
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We empower our targeted group with a skill, capital, and the tools to succeed. We do weekly checkin to see assess their progress and see if they have any challenges.
Number of people within the organization's service area accessing food aid
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Food Bank Network
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Data gathered from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation and grassroot survey was used to identify homes that live below the poverty level.
Number of older adults being supported to live at home through home care, assistive technology, and/or personal support plans
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
One Village, One Child, One School Initiative
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We continue to identify aging and senior citizens with family member that needs to work but is willing to care for their aged family and we employ them to do so.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
In the next few years, ICARE will have consolidated her technical expertise on health promotion, Advocacy, and Community Social Mobilization, and strengthening health and community systems to improve service delivery in Africa. A significant amount of children and seniors are at risk of hunger in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Our organization has started responding to the hunger crisis in Africa by providing food security for families with children and senior citizens through a network of food banks. Our goal is to give women and youths the opportunity to learn critical skills and have access to new resources. We will make sure to partner with corporations and vocational schools where they learn a business and vocational skills with an earning power that they can use in their local markets. Our organization provides books, book bags, uniforms, and shoes to underprivileged students. We also renovate classrooms, library, and laboratory in public schools that lack funding.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Food Security: We plan to set up Food Bank Networks in the communities that we serve. We will collaborate with farmers and businesses that will supply the food banks. We hope to start our farms between 3 - 5 years. This farms will also lead to employment of women and youths in the community.
Health Care: ICARE believes in preventive medicine, and we are currently collaborating with Teaching Hospitals in these communities. Doctors from these hospitals volunteer their time to give health talk and do testing before prescribing medication (s) or referring people for a further checkup. During our outreach, we supply medicine and other materials that that can prevent malaria and Tuberculosis.
Education: We identify schools that need a classroom, library, and science lab renovation. We have partnered with people that supply us with materials and at the same time teach our youth in carpentry. We plan to stock libraries and provide technology to pupils in this schools.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We currently have volunteers and capacity in the United States and Nigeria to meet our organizational goals. Our volunteers include our board members, staff, engineers, carpenters, farmers, nurses, doctors, educators, and other professionals in different fields. We hope to collaborate with business and corporations that will support our mission.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have trained women and youths in vocational skills such as soap making, tailoring, catering, auto mechanic, computer repair and hairdressing to mention a few. We also empowered them with funds, tools, and equipment to start their business. We invited professionals in Banking & Finance industry to give talks on financial literacy and business diversification.
We have also empowered families with children, widows, orphans, and children with disabilities by paying their tuition, building and renovating classrooms for students with disabilities.
Very often we go into communities to give food and other items to widows, orphans, senior citizens and families with children that are in need.
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Innovative Community Assistance to Restore and Empower
Board of directorsas of 02/25/2021
Prof. Raphael Afonja
Innovative Community Assistance to Restore & Empower
Term: 2018 - 2019
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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