2023 Annual Report
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Mission Overview
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1. Mission Statement
Home to Enhance African Life’s (HEAL) mission is to form Servant Leaders (Mt. 20:26) through poverty relief, education, advocacy, and entrepreneurship in the Self-Emptying Spirit of Christ (Phil. 2:6-11).
2. Beneficiaries
HEAL purposefully works among the least of God’s people (Mt 25:40):
- 418 primary and secondary students
- 350 day students
- 68 boarding students
- 25 abandoned widows
3. Institutions
HEAL supports two primary & secondary level schools & one shelter:
• Berthrand Okonkwo Memorial Comprehensive Academy (BOMCA*)
• Mother Enabler Nursery, Primary, & Secondary School (MENPS*)
• Mother Enabler Compassionate Home (MECH)
…in Umuagwu & Akpim villages in Imo State, Nigeria, West Africa.
BOMCA
MENPS
4. Personnel
- Seven (7) lay teachers employed at MENPS.
- 31 lay teachers employed at BOMCA.
- Two (2) National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) volunteers.
Projects
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1. Dormitory Land Clearing
Among the 418 students who attend HEAL’s two village schools, 68 of these are boarding students who are either orphans without a father or both parents or whose parents are too poor to care for them at home. Currently 46 of our boarders live in two classrooms at our school in Mbaise village, an arrangement that causes more problems than it solves. To restore the use of these classrooms for learning and to provide our boarders with adequate accommodations, HEAL conceived a project to build a student dormitory. In 2023, we cleared land near the school of rocks, vegetation, and trees to mark out the building site. Our goal is to build the dormitory and move our 46 boarders into it by September, 2025.
2. Bunk Bed Repair
As explained in the section above regarding our plans to build a dormitory, 46 boarding students currently live in two classrooms at our school in Mbaise village. This arrangement necessitated tight living quarters, with 23 students situated in each room. To make enough sleeping room for the boarders, HEAL furnished each classroom with 12 wood framed double bunk beds. Students climbing up and down and sitting and sleeping on the beds caused damage over time to the wood frames, which became wobbly and a potential safety hazard for the students, especially those sleeping in the top bunks. In 2023, HEAL sponsored a bunk bed repair project which entailed replacing any broken wood boards and reassembling the frames for greater stability.
Our Benefactors
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1. Funding Sources
Revenue in 2023 came from mostly individual donations, some foundation grants, and no business sponsorships. In 2024, HEAL will increase funding from business sponsors, foundations, and new individuals to take the pressure off HEAL’s currently small, dedicated core of individual donors.
2. Appreciation
In 2023, we appealed for funding support in many places, in many ways. We found great generosity, a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22-23), among so many of you. We did not have an annual benefit event in 2023, but we are working hard to resume this in-person event very soon. On behalf of the children and widows in our care, HEAL thanks each of you who supported our mission in 2023!
Programs
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In 2023, 418 primary and secondary students received and achieved the following:
1. Nutrition
- Diet composed of homegrown crops (maize, cassava, pumpkin, etc.) and foods purchased at local markets (poultry, rice, beans, pasta, etc.)
- Clean water pumped via diesel-fueled generator power from two wells into reservoirs and then used for drinking, washing, and cooking.
2. Education
- Formal academics, Christian religious education, spiritual formation.
- Extracurriculars: physical education, agricultural skills, performing arts.
- 32 secondary school graduates with 16 primary school graduates!
3. Medical care
- Staff nurse providing first aid and non-Rx meds for minor illness or injury.
- Physician’s care for moderate to severe cases of illness or injury.
4. Shelter 
- 22 orphans/boarding students at MENPS in Umuagwu village.
- 46 orphans/boarding students at BOMCA in Akpim village.
5. Advocacy
- Legal defense for mission property title rights disputed by intruders.
- Legal defense for orphans who have been forced from their homes.
Funds Allocation
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The following pie chart and table show that HEAL does not
waste donated dollars but allocates them efficiently in direct
support of our mission programs:
1. By Percentage:
2. By Dollars:
Testimonials
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Facts and figures only tell part HEAL’s story of great success in serving our clients among poor and marginalized orphans, widows, and rural village children. Here are a few testimonies from both our clients and missionary leaders regarding the work of the mission in 2023 from their viewpoint and experience.
1. Jude Okonkwo, Construction Manager
“As construction manager for Water for Life Foundation for over 15 years, I have practiced self-giving without counting the cost in various projects. In 2023, thanks to HEAL, I was blessed again to supervise the clearing and bulldozing of land which will become a much-needed dormitory for our boarding students.”
2. Immaculata Ukaegbu, Business Manager
“In 2023, HEAL responded to Divine grace and sponsored C-Section surgery during my first pregnancy, which sadly revealed my baby had died in the womb. The procedure prevented further complications and helped me give birth to a healthy baby boy a year later. My baby and new lease on life gives me great joy.”
3. Chisom Ezurike, Student
“We are so grateful to HEAL for repairing our dormitory beds in 2023. I and my fellow boarding students feel confident now that we will be able to sleep safely at night rather than fear falling off broken double bunk-beds to the ground with the risk of injury.”