Samaritan Platform Project

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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