Samaritan
Platform Project (SPP) is an initiative of JAKIN which is
established to provide welfare to the needy. The essence of the
project is to identify the challenges these needy people are
facing, discover its source and improvise lasting ways of
improving their physical, social and financial conditions. These
people can be poor, unemployed, below a particular income level
or in need of assistance due to circumstances beyond their
immediate capacity.
TARGET BENEFICAIRIES INCLUDE:-
1. widows
2. prisoners
3. disaster victims
4. the poor
5. The sick especially people living with HIV/AIDS and TB etc.
6. Destitute
7. Disadvantaged children
8. Out of school youths
9. Care homes such as orphanages, rehabilitation centers,
refugee camps etc.
10. Other organizations providing welfare work.
The various forms of supports can be financial, material,
academic, medical, and psychological. This can be done through:
1. provision of drugs and payment of medical bills
2. counseling
3. payment of school fees and provision of learning materials
4. setting up of petty businesses
5. home visits and care
6. workshops and seminars on capacity building
7. vocational skills training
8. provision of relieve materials
9. provision of accommodation through payment of house rent and
house renovation
10. provision clothing materials, foodstuff and hygiene packs
11. Financial and material provisions to maintain or improve the
conditions of living in Care homes.
Since it’s inception on February 2004, SPP has:-
1. Supported over of 135 individuals and families in over160
charities. These includes:-
- Payment of
the school fees of 20 children including 4 HIV positive
ones.
- Medical
support for 48 people which include 40 people living with
HIV.
- Setting up
of 39 petty businesses for widows, people living with HIV
and other needy individuals and families.
- Payment of
house rent for eight people.
- Provision
of financial assistance for other welfare needs (65 times).
2. Organized a
one day health talk and provided hygiene packs containing
toothpaste, toothbrush, bathing soaps, laundry soaps, body
cream, sponge and a pair of bathroom slippers to over 60
disadvantaged almanjiri children who beg on the streets of Gusau,
Zamfara State.
3. Provided
relieve materials worth N408, 500 to the 95 families involved in
the July 9th 2006 Abiye Street, Iwaya, Lagos fire disaster. Each
family received:-
- A 60 litre
storage drum.
- A 25 litre
keg.
- A kerosene
stove.
- A bathing
bucket and bowl.
- 2 cooking
pots.
- 2 serving
spoon
- 6 plates,
spoons, and cups
- A knife,
turning stick and also clothing materials.
4. Provided
tons of material aids in 63 distributions to 22 organizations or
groups doing welfare work as far as Liberia,
Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Sudan and other warring, famine or
disaster stricken African nations.
5. Provided a full van of clothing materials to over 2000
victims of the September 30th/October 1st, 2006 Zamfara State
Dam disaster.
6. Supported 13 homes, 8 rehabs, prisons and 2 refugee camps in
116 charities. These supports include among others donation of
foodstuffs, hygiene materials, and clothing, digging of wells,
construction of window nets, fixing of toilets and packing of
septic tanks.
7. Setting up of Samaritan club among youth corpers in Bakura
LGA, Zamfara state
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