A year of integrated programs across 10 Nigerian states. Here's what your support made possible.
As we close out 2024, Care Best Initiative pauses to reflect on a year of relentless service, renewed commitment, and hard-won progress across some of Nigeria's most challenging humanitarian contexts. From the sun-baked communities of Borno to the flood-affected villages of Zamfara, our teams were there — delivering healthcare, clean water, education, and protection to families who had nowhere else to turn.
This year, we crossed a milestone that once felt distant: 1,500,000 lives reached since our founding in 2019. That number is not an abstraction. It is 1.5 million individual stories — a mother who gave birth safely because a trained health worker arrived on time, a child who returned to the classroom after two years of displacement, a family that no longer walks 5 kilometres for clean water.
Our Health programme conducted over 70,000 consultations in 2024, with mobile clinics extending services to communities beyond the reach of fixed health facilities. The Nutrition programme managed over 8,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition, with a treatment success rate exceeding 90%. In education, we supported the re-enrolment of more than 12,000 children across conflict-affected schools, distributing learning materials and training teachers in child-friendly pedagogy.
The WASH programme rehabilitated 24 boreholes and constructed 80 sanitation facilities, providing over 30,000 individuals with sustainable access to safe water. Our Protection teams managed more than 5,000 cases of gender-based violence and child protection concerns, providing survivor-centred psychosocial support, legal referrals, and dignity kits.
None of this was possible without the trust of our partners — UNICEF, WFP, USAID, and over 35 civil society organisations — nor without the courage of our 200+ field staff who work in difficult and often dangerous conditions. To every donor, partner, and community member who stood with us in 2024: thank you. The work continues.