Our Story

Phos Aid International started as an informal group in April 2020. Aisha's story which would later inspire other health and educational projects in the rural community, is the defining point in our history. After successfully treating Aisha's leg paralysis, we discovered other issues of concern in her immediate and neighboring communities. Water scarcity, many other children who were victims of wrong injections, hunger, malnutrition and zero school were among the identified issues that compelled us to launch Phos Aid International in order to accommodate the increasing responsibilities and expectations. In February 2023, Phos Aid International was incorporated by the Corporate Affairs Commission as a registered non-profit NGO (community philanthropy organization, community-based organization, etc) championing access to healthcare, education, clean water and humanitarian aid, especially to the underserved, isolated and hard-to-reach rural communities across Nigeria, and with a plan to expanding operations to other select communities in the Global South in the nearest future.

Efforts towards eliminating health inequities in hard-to-reach rural communities…

Besides establishing the rural school, which now provides the out-of-school children/young people with access to quality education, Uchechukwu organized many free medical outreaches, involving health talks, health checks, drug treatments, HIV screening and sensitization, and referrals. Food items, clothes and humanitarian support were also provided to over 1000 beneficiaries.

Our Achievements since 2020:

1. Successful treatment of Aisha's leg paralysis.
2. Successful persuasion of the Fulani herders to embrace formal education.
3. Collaborating with the people to ban fake drug vendors in Buraku camp - a community of Fulani herdsmen residing in a forest at Baruten, Kwara State. This saved over 2000 settlers from potential future drug-related problems in the community.
4. Encouraged the settlers to switch to standard healthcare practices eg visiting hospitals instead of relying on deadly local therapies, etc.
5. Stopped child labour by enrolling up to 70 out-of-school children into our school.
6. Completed a school building project without placing any financial burden on the community.
7. Provided free writing materials, school uniforms, and other educational/teaching aid, an enabling environment for sports and games.
8. Employed academic and administrative staff to manage the school.
9. Won leadership award (Kwara State Honours Award), which was endorsed by the state governor, Gov. AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman.
10. Sensitized the community against violence and extremism.
11. Provided food items and other empowerment packages to reduce malnutrition and hunger in the community among 1500 rural dwellers during the 2021 and 2022 festive seasons.
12. Received grant from the Global Youth Mobilization Fund in 2022, jointly funded by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Foundation.

Future Projects

1. Expansion of Beacon of light school
● To identify and build additional 5 schools in select hard-to-reach rural communities in Kwara and Ebonyi State before 2030.
● To enroll at least 200 out-of-school children in the already existing Beacon of Light International Schools by 2026.
● To employ more staff (at least 100 academic and administrative staff by 2030).
● To renovate the damaged parts of the school building
2. To Provide accessible clean Water
● To donate one borehole each to 5 select hard-to-reach rural communities in Kwara and Ebonyi States by 2025
3. To provide 5000 indigents with access to sustainable healthcare annually
● Organize free medical outreaches
● Coordinate health checks, screen for HIV, hepatitis b and other infectious diseases,