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Mar

09

2024

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Behold the CHAMA WATER PROJECT (Photos)

Abia, CHAMA, Charity, NewsAbia State, CHAMA, Nigeria, Olugu Ukpai

“Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes. Yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.” – Victoria Erickson “Be formless, shapeless like water. If you put water into a cup, it comes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce MOM MOF at the water site before work started “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you…

Jan

14

2024

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BREAKING: Forgotten but RESCUED

CHAMA, Charity, NewsCHAMA, Charity, Nigeria

Joy, a teenager was brought for help during CHAMA invasion. She is blind but she wasn't born blind in the morning when she went to school. One fateful day, she went to school and couldn't come back. When it was getting darker, her mother traced her to school and found her left behind all alone in a classroom at school. She was in class during class and suddenly couldn't see again. Her teachers and peers thought that she was taking a nap as she bent her face against her locker crying 😢 because she couldn't see again. But no one…

Jan

14

2024

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BREAKING: A mother shares her story of child loss to malaria

CHAMA, NewsCHAMA, Health, Nigeria

“For us, it is a devastating disease. As a little girl, I already suffered from malaria, as did my parents, sisters and brothers. Two of my sisters and my son died from the disease. Just last year, I lost my nephew, an active young boy 14 years old, to malaria. Another nephew died just months ago, as I myself lay stricken with my sickness in a different hospital. He was a brilliant and gifted 16-year-old, and the pride of our family. We miss him terribly.” Please pray that the Lord would protect anyone else from succumbing! Malaria is a poverty…

Nov

11

2022

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Ohafia Son Breaks Academic, and Sports records in Canada bags 40 million scholarships

Abia, CHAMA, Education, News, SportsAbia State, Education, Nigeria, Ohafia, Olugu Ukpai, Reviews, Sports

A Nigerian teenager that hails from Assga Ohafia Local Government in Abia State, Master Samuel Olugu Ukpai, has continued to set Canada on fire with record-breaking achievements in education and sports with more than twenty-six medals to his credit. The fifteen years old Uma Olugu from the South-Eastern part of Nigeria was born in Nigeria but joined his father in Canada when he was just 1 year and 7 months old. Uma recently won a whooping sum of N40 million for his 3-year Senior Secondary (2022-24) education in Canada owing to his academic excellent performance and stint for sports, he…

Nov

13

2021

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How Ohafia-Born Ugonma Olugu Ukpai Broke Academic, Sports Records In Canada

Abia, CHAMA, Education, News, SportsAbia State, Education, Metro, Nigeria, Ohafia, Olugu Ukpai, Sports

A Nigerian teenager, Mercy Ugonma Olugu Ukpai, has continued to set Canada on fire with record-breaking achievements in education and sports, with more than forty-six medals to her credit. The eighteen years old Mercy from Ohafia, Abia State in the South-Eastern part of the country was born in Nigeria but joined her father in Canada before her second year birthday. Meanwhile, Mercy while speaking to journalists recently, said she had through dint of hard work, broken a lot of records in her education and sports – two focal points of her pursuit in Canada. Among her, numerous achievements are medals…

Mar

21

2021

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Breaking: Canada Honours Goodness On 15th Aniversary, Declare March Malaria Awareness Day

Abia, CHAMA, Education, Health Tips, NewsAfrica, Nigeria, Ohafia, Olugu Ukpai

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE Today, the 20th of March, 2021 mark exactly 15 years that we lost our precious baby girl - Goodness Olugu Ukpai Her death led to the formation of CHAMA – to “prevent other children from needless death” and “ to prevent parents from passing through the psychological trauma that we passed through and keep passing through” after losing our own Goodness. After 15 years, the best way to describe the journey so far is Blessing in disguise It’s a blessing because lives have been touched, changed and transformed. It’s a blessing because over 600 100% free…

Feb

20

2021

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Silence Over Orlu Massacre By FGN, An Open Letter To South East Governors.

Abia, CHAMA, NewsIPOB, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Olugu Ukpai, Opinion, Personality, Politics

Dear South East Governors,According to the Holy Book, there is a time for everything under heaven - “A time to be silent and a time to speak” (Eccl 3:7b). I feel that this isn’t time to keep quiet, but time to speak. I was constrained to write you this open letter after carefully watching your salience over the ugly ongoing massacre and wanton destruction of life and property in Orlu –Imo State. Many of us, Igbo sons and daughters across Europe, America, Canada and elsewhere are worried over your silence. When I first read, “In the end, we will remember…

Jan

22

2021

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Fighting Malaria, HIV/AIDS In Africa: The CHAMA Example

CHAMA, Education, NewsAfrica, Health, Nigeria, Olugu Ukpai

CHIBUIKE CHUKWU explores the activities of a Canadian based organization, CHAMA, in rural African countries with the mandate to eliminate poverty and fight diseases. With huge interventions in Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania the organization is transforming lives. Malaria has remained one of the major killers of men and women, particularly children in the world today. The fatalities of malaria are particularly worse in Sub-Saharan Africa given the continent’s poor healthcare system. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female anopheles mosquitoes. The latest World Malaria Report from the WHO released on 30…

Jul

03

2020

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For “Goodness” sake: CHAMA Ohafia Chapter provides care for 103 year old woman in Okon-Aku

Abia, CHAMA, Health Tips, NewsAbia State, Coronavirus, Health, Metro, Nigeria, Ohafia

Challenge AIDS and Malaria in Africa (CHAMA) is a Canadian-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded by Dr. & Pastor Mrs Olugu Ukpai in 2006 after they lost their baby girl named “Goodness” at 16 months to malaria needlessly. With 49,000 volunteers from 99 countries of the globe, CHAMA volunteers has for 14 years carried out over 600 free surgeries, saving estimated 80,000 people. Supporting older people during the COVID-19 pandemic is everyone’s business. The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the global population in drastic ways. In many countries, older people are facing the most threats and challenges at this time. This is…

Jul

26

2018

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CHAMA BUILDS HOUSE FOR A BURUNDIAN WIDOW AND HER 6 CHILDREN (EAST AFRICA)

CHAMA, NewsAbia State, Nigeria, Personality

One of the most consistent findings by various authors with regards to African widows is the degree to which they are economically self-reliant. Margaret Owen, a leading figure in the emerging women’s legal rights movement, explains that women in African nations are generally the poorest of the poor and the least protected by the law. She further points out that widowhood represents a social death for women, rubbing them of their status and consigning them to the very margins of society where they suffer the most extreme forms of discrimination and stigma. Habonimana is a widow with 6 children but…