By Josephine Ogazi | Executive Director
Health Insurance for Widows and Orphans In FCT-Abuja (GlobalGiving)
Report: Report on Health Insurance for 200 Widows and Orphans in Abuja
GlobalGiving Project No. #48816
Period: April 11, 2025 – August 08, 2025
Reported By: Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE)
Date: Friday, August 08, 2025
Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE) has raised a total of USD$10,355.505 from 124 donations for health insurance for 124 widows and orphans over the past five years. The main goal of WEWE’s project hosted on the GlobalGiving website is to raise USD$50,000 to provide health insurance for 200 widows and orphans in Abuja, Nigeria, to access healthcare services. WEWE has successfully reached over 62.05% of our target.
During the four (4) months reporting period from April 11, 2025 – August 08, 2025, WEWE received a total of N161,406 (USD$107.604) in cash donations from individual philanthropists within Nigeria and USD$98.45 donations from WEWE’s crowdfunding page hosted on the GlobalGiving website, making it a total of USD$206.054 received this reporting period. The funds received were used to support the hospital bills of three (3) widows. This support was made possible by donations received during this reporting period. In total, WEWE has now supported 124 beneficiaries.
During the four (4) months reporting period (April 11, 2025 – August 08, 2025), WEWE identified three (3) households headed by widows (3 widows) and provided financial support to them.
WEWE provided health insurance and reimbursement of out-of-pocket medical expenses for a total of 124 widows and orphans, distributed across the years as follows: 55 in 2021, 26 in 2022, 16 in 2023, 21 in 2024 and 3 from the last reporting period (December 12, 2024 – April 11, 2025) and 3 from this reporting period. This insurance provider covers National Government Insurance and Direct Private Health services.
WEWE has successfully provided healthcare services for 124 widows and orphans in Abuja, Nigeria. The following are the details of the beneficiaries registered under the Group, Individual, and Family Social Health Insurance Programme (GIFSHIP) program, private healthcare insurance scheme, private healthcare services.
Below are the names and details of the beneficiaries within this reporting period, April 11, 2025 – August 08, 2025
S/N Name (Not Real) Dependent Amount
1 Evelyn 1 N70,000
2 Julie 1 N38,500
3 Akowe 1 N52,906
Total N161,406.00
Challenges and Mitigation
Nigerian donors struggle with payment issues on GlobalGiving due to incompatible payment service providers. We encouraging them to use Nigerian payment platforms.
Conclusion
As of August 08, 2025, WEWE has provided direct support and enrolled 124 beneficiaries out of the 200 widows and orphans with support from 124 donations from WEWE’s crowdfunding page hosted on the GlobalGiving website and individual donors from inception to date. We still have 76 beneficiaries to be registered into Health Insurance for 200 Widows and Orphans in Abuja.
WEWE continues to solicit more support from our esteemed donors to reach our target goal.
On behalf of the 124 widows and orphans’ beneficiaries who have benefited from this project to date, we extend our appreciation to all the donors supporting the WEWE Project No. #48816 “Health Insurance for 200 Widows and Orphans in Abuja, Nigeria” hosted on the GlobalGiving crowdfunding website.
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