2022 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):
- 437 primary & secondary students
- 78 boarding students (orphans)
- 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
- Five (5) Messengers of Justice (MOJ) Religious Sisters
- 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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In 2022, we completed these special projects:
1. Shelter Renovation 
Since 2006, the Mother Enabler Compassionate Home (MECH) in Umuagwu village has been an activity center and shelter for 48 village children who are also students at nearby MENPS
academy (See Pg 1). By 2022, the MECH structure had become severely dilapidated due to the erosion of time and weather. Holes in the clay walls gave access to rodents and reptiles while cracks in the roof led to leaks during heavy rains. MECH became a safety and health hazard for the children it was built to serve. HEAL passionately appealed for funds to repair and renovate MECH and many benefactors responded generously. Today, MECH is once again a place for children to enjoy extracurricular activities, pray in the chapel, eat in the refectory, and live if they have nowhere else to go.
2. School Bus Repair
Transportation is critical for day-to-day mission operations. Students need rides to and from school, the MOJ Sisters go to and return from local food markets or medical clinics depending
on community needs, and teachers at times need transportation to school. In 2015, a generous donor provided a Toyota minibus for our mission. As we have had to repair our bus many times over the years, 2022 was no exception. The bus had many mechanical problems, becoming undrivable for weeks before we appealed and secured the funds needed for repairs. Thanks to our generous donors, the “mission bus” is up and running again, taking our missionaries and students where they need to go!
Our Benefactors
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1. Funding Sources
Revenue in 2022 came from mostly individual donations, some foundation grants, and no business sponsorships. In 2023, 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 2022, 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. Because of the global pandemic and lockdown policies in the USA, we were not able to host our Annual HEAL Benefit. On behalf of the children and widows in our care, HEAL thanks each of you who supported our mission in 2022!
Programs
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In 2022, 437 students enrolled at BOMCA & MENPS received:
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.
- 18 secondary school graduates with 100% national exam pass rate!
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 (for 78 children)
- 32 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 2022 from their viewpoint and experience.
1. Sr. Celestina Chukwu, MOJ Sister
“Our religious community has suffered many challenges in 2022 that have affected our physical growth. My joy is that the difficulties I endure presently in our mission have made me a better religious and model of the servant leadership which Christ expects of His disciples. Thanks be to God, who compassionately remains with us in our striving efforts to reach out even in our scarcity to our poverty-stricken brethren all with the charitable support of HEAL.”
2. Ebere Umeyor, Bus Driver
“Since the bus was repaired by HEAL, the movement of the school children as well as the MOJ Sisters has been easy. Prior to this repair, the bus often was seen parked along the road for one mechanical problem or another. Repairing this bus has saved time and transportation cost, which is now exorbitant due to fuel cost and inflation.”
3. Chinemerem Anyanwu, PS-4 student
“Repair of the Compassionate home has made us feel loved and well cared for like every other child in the village who has a home to return to after school. For me, the new toilet, kitchen, lounge, and bedrooms are worth more now than a thousand gold. Everyone is happy to tell others where we live unlike before when we were ashamed of inviting our friends to MECH as our home.”