St. Gerard’s Foundation
St. Gerard’s Foundation is a non-governmental, non-religious, not-for-profit organization registered under the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with registration number CAC/IT/NO77245 to carry out her corporate social responsibilities to the community. The Foundation seeks to contribute towards strengthening and scaling up access to quality care on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Nutrition, TB Prevention and Treatment. It also provides psycho-social support and mitigation of the adverse effects caused by these diseases and other STI’s among PLWHA and the at risk vulnerable groups /populations in Kaduna state with emphases on those who could not have access to healthcare facilities and are situated in a very hard-to-reach communities. In order to achieve our vision of becoming the foremost health care provider in the community, the foundation works in the following areas:
MEDICAL OUTREACH
Activities:
- Health talks on effective sanitation and personal hygiene.
- Young Child feeding
- Vital Signs
- HIV/AIDS Screening
- Hepatitis, Random Blood Sugar, and Malaria tests
- Distribution of Mosquito nets to pregnant women and women with children between five years.
- Hepatitis B Vaccination
- Free distribution of drugs such as: Vitamin A, Albendazole, Multivitamin, Antihypertensive drugs, Malaria drugs and Antibiotics etc. This activity is aimed at supporting sustainable efforts to improve the lives of the disadvantaged and vulnerable throughout Nigeria.
HIV/AIDS CARE AND SUPPORT
Activities:
- HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT)
- Antiretroviral therapy (ART)
- Out Patient and in Patient services
- Community Mobilization/ sensitization
- Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT)
- Early infant Diagnosis (E.I.D)
- Peri-natal services
- Reproductive health service/counseling
- Referral/ Networking
- Health Education
- Continuous quality assessment with an annual patient level outcome (PLO) exercise
- Prophylaxis and treatment for opportunistic infections
- Community systems strengthening
- Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT)
TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
Activities:
- Screening
- Treatment of TB
NUTRITION
Activities
- Provision of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to families of children with all sorts of acute malnutrition through a network of community health workers or community-level health facilities
- Preventive nutrition initiatives; including Promotion of breastfeeding and appropriate Complementary feeding and provision of relevant information education and communication (IEC) materials
- Identifying and treating children in all parts of the state and at all times of the year through effective community mobilization and active case ending
- Distribution of Vitamin A, Albendazole and other Micronutrient to Pregnant women and children.
MALARIA
Activities:
- Screening and treatment
- Distribution of Treated Mosquito Net
- Awareness on personal hygiene.
OUT PROJECT TO MAKYALI CAMP
The continuous confrontation of communities in Southern Kaduna by Herders which results to loss of lives and destruction of properties leading many houses and barns burnt leaving occupants homeless. So many people living in these areas have fled to neighboring villages to live with relatives, friends, while others in IDP camps. Majority of the displaced are women, children and many of them are growing more vulnerable as the violence persists and humanitarian assistance seems to be inadequate.
As part of St. Gerard’s social responsibility, visited MaKyali Camp and presented: Building Materials (Zincs,and Cements), Food Stuffs like corn, Rice, Gallons of Oil and Cartons of Maggi on the 17 June,2019 to the victims
