Disaster relief & humanitarian aid, S/East Nigeria

Happy New Year from all of us at Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation. We want to, in a special way thank you immensely for your kindness and generosity to our project. Thanks for your support which has helped us impact many lives in our community. We do not take your donations for granted at all, it is gratefully appreciated.

We are happy to have the opportunity from GlobalGiving to enable our cherished donors to support our cause in the "post COVID recovery relief fund to rural imolite".

Contributions like yours are continuing to make a difference. They are supporting Sam Onyemaechi humanitarian Foundation's response efforts and delivering crucial help and hope to people in need amid hostilities, constant stress, and difficult conditions away from home.

Within the period of our last report, we have received donations from You through GlobalGiving. We have made much progress in regards to receiving support in carrying out our humanitarian services for, "Post COVID Recovery Relief Fund to Rural Imolite (54335)". We put smile Ms on the faces of indigents communities we were able to reach within the cause of our community outreach.

The major challenges we face in our project management is occasioned by poor and insufficient funding and sponsorship, inadequate equipment to execute the project, economic and political instability and environmental . All these contribute to delaying our performance in helping those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to recover from the losses. Thank God we were able to receive a grant which enabled us to reach to some rural communities.

However, as we reiterated in our last report, the persistence of hunger is no longer a matter of food availability. Rather, in many countries that failed to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) hunger target, natural and human-induced disasters or political instability have resulted in food insecurity affecting large swathes of the population.

This crisis is alarming, in part, because it has several new and unfamiliar features. A global medical emergency caused by a virus we still do not fully understand. A self-inflicted economic catastrophe as a necessary policy response to contain its spread.

And yet as time has passed, it has also become clear that much of what is most distressing about this crisis is not new at all. Striking variations in COVID-19 infections and outcomes appear to reflect existing economic inequalities. Remarkable mismatches between the social value of what “key workers” do and the low wages they receive follows from the familiar failure of the market to value adequately what really matters.

The happy embrace of disinformation and misinformation about the virus was to be expected, given a decade of rising populism and declining faith in experts. And the absence of a properly coordinated international response ought to have come as no surprise, given the celebration of “my country first” global politics in recent years.

The crisis then is a revelation in a far more literal sense—it is focusing our collective attention on the many injustices and weaknesses that already exist in how we live together. If people were blind to these faults before, it is hard not to see them now.

What will the world look like after COVID-19? Many of the problems we will face in the next decade will simply be more extreme versions of those that we already confront today. The world will only look significantly different this time if, as we emerge from this crisis, we decide to take action to resolve these problems and bring about fundamental change.

Below is how we receive money and how it was used.

*INCOME*

Part of grant from Corteva through GlobalGiving in sponsoring the project, "Post COVID recovery relief fund to rural imolite" = $1000

Disbursement from GlobalGiving = $28.00

proceeds from social enterprise sales to support the Program = $228

Grand Total of income =$1261

Below is a short description of some of the humanitarian relief you have supported us with and how your donation was used.

Expenditures

Appreciation to the Volunteers= 10×30 = $300

Phone Calls and data = $25

Relief materials to indigent families= 875

Balance brought forward of last budget expenditures =$-76.71

Grand total of expenditures = $1276.71

Deficit= -15.71

We will keep you informed about how your donation is impacting the lives of people who are suffering because of this shortage.

Once again, thank you for your generous donation to our cause.

We therefore urge you to share our project with your network of family and friends to impact the lives of these youths. Thank you for your donation and getting your network to do the same. Remember when youths rise the world thrives

Moreso, we thank God for a successful 10th year of Humanitarian excellence. Without your fraternal solidarity we wouldn't have marked this event. You made it what it is today. Thanks for being there for us. We appreciate.

With Kindest regards,

Samonyemaechi Humanitarian