The Dr. Chidubem Onochie Keshi Foundation is a nonprofit organisation established to carry out charitable and humanitarian activities aimed at improving lives of the less privileged in Nigeria.
It is an organisation duly registered in Nigeria Corporate Affairs Commission with registration number 8361059. The founder of the organisation, Dr. Charles Chidubem Onochie Keshi, for whom the organisation is named after, is an Obstetrician Gynaecologist by profession with extensive working experience in Europe and the Caribbean.
Having lived and worked in more developed climes for over three decades, the founder and President Dr. Keshi understands the urgent need for impactful interventions, especially in improving women’s health, reducing social vices affecting the girl child with emphasis on girl child education & training, reducing infant mortality rates, implementing poverty alleviation initiatives, and empowering the less privileged.
A key focus of the Foundation is also to provide youth empowerment and vocational skills acquisition programmes that create sustainable opportunities for young people.
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OBJECTIVES
To improve women’s health and overall wellbeing through sensitization, medical outreach and donations.
To reduce social vices affecting the girl child by promoting girl child education, protection, guidance, trainings and opportunities.
To help reduce infant mortality through improved healthcare support and awareness.
To provide poverty alleviation programmes for the less privileged.
To empower youths through vocational skills acquisition and development initiatives.
The vision of the Dr. Chidubem Onochie Keshi Foundation is to help build a balanced society in Nigeria that ensures optimal healthcare for women in the grassroot, equal opportunities for the girl child, gross reduction of infant mortality rates, empowerment of youths, and the less privileged experience an improved standard of living.
Mission: To improve the lives and standard of living of the girl child, women & youths through quality interventions in healthcare and socioeconomic initiatives.