About Us

About The Organization

Eminent Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation (ECHF) is a registered non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and not-for-profit organization, established in 1999 and got registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on the 20th of July 2005. The organization is committed to the holistic development of mankind by means of leadership development, charitable activities and various humanitarian tasks. 

We work directly with communities, non-governmental organizations and at times governments to access people’s needs and to develop the most appropriate and effective ways to support them in overcoming their social, political and health needs. Our work is concentrated on the most vulnerable group of the Nigerian society, that is, women, children, youth and people with disabilities and people living with HIV/AIDS. We achieve our objectives through advocacy, sensitization, service delivery and awareness creation.

VISION

ECHF envisions a society where mankind, especially the vulnerable groups (women, children, youth, disenfranchised, people with disabilities, patients of infectious diseases, and victims of natural disasters) have privilege to their rights, educationally, socially and developmentally.

MISSION

Promote the principle of caring for one another’s well-being and fostering the spirit of mutual understanding and support within the context of sustainable human development.

Goal

Our goal is to ensure the rights of women, children and youths including the downtrodden sre respected and protected irrespective of their social, religious, political and economic background.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ORGANIZATION

• Empower women and youths to be politically and economically sel-reliant.

• Strive to provide a conducive atmosphere for the downtrodden, including persons with disabilities, children, and the girlchild in order to achieve their potentials in life.

• Ensure peaceful coexistence amongst Nigerians irrespective of their social and religious backgrounds.

• Provide legal defense for the poor and marginalized communities and persons with disabilities.

Scope

Our scope of work cuts across all the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, but with special attention to the South-West Geopolitical Zone.

Thematic Areas

Our thematic areas include, but not limited to the following: HIV/AIDS prevention, Maleria control, TB Control, Water Sanitation, Environmental Sanitation, Renewable Energy, Human Rights Protection, Food security, Education, Good Governance, Health and Sanitation Information Dissemination.

Eminent Charity also adopts the following strategies to achieve its objectives:

• Vocational/Skills Acquistion Training: ECHF empowers the less privilege people through various vocational trainings and equipment support for self reliance and independent living of people in need in Nigeria.
• Capacity Building/Training Programmes: ECHF conducts capacity building programmes for the less privieleged people, youths and women to be economically self-reliant. We drill boreholes, train rural women and community members on water sanitation and hygiene.
• Awareness Creation/Advocacy: ECHF advocate to gatekeepers about issues that affect the lives of their people proffer solutions to them. They include religious leaders, traditional Rulers, community leaders, policy makers and governments. We created awareness on the negative effects of stigmatization and economic disadvantage on single parents and their children. We have also influenced policy makers on the need for enactment and enforcement of law that will safeguard the rights of young girls as mitigation against growing incidents of rape and other social vices that lead to single parenting among female teenagers in Osun State, Nigeria.
• Partnership: ECHF works in partnership with other Non-Governmental and Governmental Organizations that share similar objectives and/or goals with us in order to achieve our objectives of impacting lives of people and communities in Nigeria.

• Workshops and Others: We organize seminars/symposia, workshops, a, outreaches, health & sex education, peer group education, literacy programs, meetings, counseling/distribution of leaflets and vocational training.
• Educational/Literacy Programmes: We organize educational programmes for uneducated adults for them to acquire basic knowledge that will help them in their day-to-day activities. We also conduct health education programmes which include voter education, STIs/STDs, HIV/AIDS prevention, drug addiction, etc. We work to promote sound moral education aimed at adding value, leading to attitudinal and behavioral change amongst youths.

Other Services:

• Leadership Development: The ECHF invests in the education of youths in order to make them become responsible members of their families and citizens of their communities and their Country as a whole. This is achieved through conducting innovative programs, awareness creation programmes and workshops.
• Counselling Services: We offer free information and counseling services to youths, women, and teenagers. We produce educational/advocacy materials such as fliers, handbills, posters, radio and TV jingles on different health and sanitation issues. ECHF provides psycho-sicial support to target groups on how to cope with the devastating effect of insecurity.
• Consultancy Services: The Organization offers consultancy services to both state and non-state actors in divers fields which include business management, human resource development and environmental and other health matters.
• Other Social Services: Caring for people with disabilities, distribution of food items in kind to people in need, provision of shelters, food security, supply of sanitation materials to prison inmates, women, children affected by political or religious uprisings.

ECHF MEMBERSHIP

Our membership is opened to all interested and respectful persons, irrespective of their faiths, tribe, race or gender and to those who will subscribe to the ideals of the organization.

OUR SOURCE OF FUNDING

Our sources of funding include the following:

1. Membership registration fees, dues & levies.
2. Gifts from individuals and corporate organizations.
3. Individual and philanthropic organizations; and
4. Grants from international donor organizations.

STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION

The Board of Trustees of ECHF is made up of 5 prominent personalities selected from different part of the Country. It comprises of 3 males and 2 females. The educational backgrounds cut across different professions which include Education, Health, Economics and Community Development. The Organization is made up of 15 members of staff including volunteers who are being headed by the Executive Director, who also doubles as the Secretary of the Governing Board.

ORGANIZATION CAPABILITY

We are a versatile CBO/NGO in the area of capacity building. We have a pool of experienced resource persons to work with and our past activities as regards this proposed action speak volume. We have been in the capacity building work for over years now. We are banking on strategic methodologies with sereis of cutting edge programmes because we are not new to informal training. We believe our strategic methodologies on (cutting edge programs) activities will achieve the intended results because they had been employed in another project that was test run in one of the selected benefiting communities for the proposed programme.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPACITY

1. Financing  System and Procedure  in Place:

ECHF has highly qualified financial officers with experience ranging from 7-25 years in grant management. The foundation has policies and guidelines for all financial operations which have been developed into standard operating procedure (SOP). We also have sets of internal controls that ensure accountability and limit conflict of interest. The financial manual briefly covers some other areas like petty cash holding, budgeting, renovations and chart of accounts and jpb descriptions of the core finance personnel. Also a project is available to make our work an easy task.

1. Accounting for Separate Individual Project Funds:

We keep separate bank account for every project with reputable commercial banks in the country. In our financial records, all direct expenses are charged to the appropriate project while indirect costs like rent, salaries of shared staff, indirect labor, vehicle maintenance and fueling etc. are apportioned on a rational basis to each of the projects. Financial reports are extracted from our records according to the donors’ guideline, where no such guideline exists we provide reports using our own template.

Target groups

The key target groups are as follows; 1). The aged, 2). Women including pregnant women, 3). Children, 4). People with disabilities, 5). People Living With HIV/AIDS and People Affected By AIDS and Malaria T.B Patients 6). and Youths.

MAJOR MALARIA and other related ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED PRIOR TO NOW.

• Coartem (Anti-Malaria drugs) Distribution to People diagnosed at Osun State Hospital Ede
• Daily Counselling of patients on empowermental care and protection of malaria parasite vector.
• HCT center
• Home Based Care
• Malaria and TB control programme.
• Care and Support for People living with HIV & AIDS, their families as well as orphans and vulnerable children.
• Vocational Training for people with disabilities.
• Joint Awareness rallies in colaboration with Ministry of Health on Malaria days. Etc.

Membership of Networks/Coalitions:

• Civil Societies Consultative Network on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN).
• Africa Alive.
• Network of NGOs in Osun State (NETNOS).
• Global water partnership
• National Youth Council.
• Youth Action Net.
• Tuberculosis Coalition Osun State Chapter.
• Global Youth Coaltion on HIV & AIDS (GYCA).
• Association of Civil Society Organizations working on Malaria, Immunization and Nutrition. And we reserved the post of Chairmanship.
• Association of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Non Govermental Organizations of Nigeria (AONN).

ASPIRATION

We aspire to be a source of mercy and relief for mankind in order to impact sustainable livelihood into every lives of the less privilege people. To achieve this, ECHF works to enhance the quality of good life for the poor, those that are suffering through natural disasters or otherwise disadvantage. So, we welcome volunteers and others related across the globe to help us on these blissful activities.