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Rivers of Paradise Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to address the needs of the less priviledged, children and adults living with special needs/mental illness, widows and motherless children in Nigeria. We are committed to promote gender equality, equal access to basic needs such as food, shelter, health care and education. Providing aid to victims of natural disasters or conflict or suffering from poverty, hunger, diseases, discrimination, stigmatization, homelssness, injustice, depravation , lack of skills and violence. Raise awareness and provide trainings about mental illness and mental disorders. Providing therapy and counseling to individuals and groups suffering from Mental Illness such as internally displaced individual and others in our communities.

Child Education Help

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Motherless Babies and at Risk Children

We prvide care and support for the motherless babies and provide them with parental care.

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WIDOWS PROGRAM

We assist widows in many areas in our society at large by visiting them financially, materially and otherwise.

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Our Vision

Our vision Statement

Our vision is to create communities where every individual has access to basic necessities and the opportunity to improve their quality of life. Eradicate to eradicate poverty, injustice, and inequality (Gender, economic Education), and to promote education, health, and economic development. We believe in a world where compassion, understanding, and mutual respect form the basis of who we are and how we treat each other. Empower communities to become self-sufficient and to inspire everyone to contribute towards making the world a better place.” Create social change through education, advocacy, and service.

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Our Mission

Our Mission Statement

▪ To engage in activities necessary to educate community regarding mental health awareness, sensitization against stigmatization to individuals with mental illness and mental health disorders, promote inclusion programs for individuals with mental health and disabilities.
▪ Provide counseling and therapy i.e. PTSD to agencies like Police, army, military due to the nature of their work most of them suffer PTSD.
▪ Work closely with other agencies, NGO’s .community leaders and government to provide urgently needed services to Internally Displaced population (IDP’s). Unfortunately due to high levels of insecurity in the world including Nigeria. IDP’s population suffers from various forms of mental health disorders not limited to anxiety, PTSD, depression and even suicide due to the trauma they experience (being removed from their homes, loss of property and livelihood, Physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse etc.
▪ To provide, Mental Health Counseling, Prevention and Promotion, Detection and Diagnosis, treatment care and Rehabilitation, training, education and capacity building.
▪ To provide housing refuge, shelter facilities for abandoned orphans, motherless babies, widows and individuals with special needs (Autism, Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc).
▪ To provide spiritual and moral support to at risk children and widows in the society.
▪ Working for uplifting the status of women in the society. To work against FGM (female genital mutilation/cutting) and fight against gender based violence.
▪ To render humanitarian aid and engage in provision of relief materials to persons and communities in distress.
▪ To initiate impactful projects and or facilitate intervention in areas such as educational activities, health, water, and sanitation, human capacity development, economic empowerment, wealth creation and innovation and agricultural advancement.
▪ To arrange and provide for, and or collaborate with other similar organizations in organizing exhibitions, meetings, lectures, workshops, conferences, seminars and trainings related to the aims and objectives of the foundation.
▪ To facilitate the printing and publishing of papers, books, periodicals, pamphlets or documents, films or recorded tapes on issues that further the objective of the foundation.
▪ To purchase or hire or acquire any property rights and privileges necessary for the promotion of such objects and construct, maintain and alter any buildings necessary for the work or the attainment of the objectives of the foundation.
▪ To undertake any other steps in human development and other sources for the realization of the objectives of the foundation.

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OUR CORE VALUES

• Equity and Inclusion: we are committed to ensure that everyone deserves the opportunity to live to their full potential.
• Empathy. We strive to recognize and understand the perspective, feelings, and lived experience of others, including and especially the less privileged and individuals with mental illness/disorders.
• Resilience-we are passionate and tireless in pursuit of our mission to help the less privileged in our community, ensuring that everyone have access to basic necessity of life as well as having equal chance to participate in community activities.
• Commitment to the Less privileged: The organization is committed to helping communities lift themselves out of poverty.
• Responsiveness: responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
• Accountability: we hold ourselves and one another responsible for ensure that we take care of resources placed in our hands though generosity of others we are entrusted by those we serve to observe the highest standards and ethics.
• Compassion: we are compassionate for human suffering and we are willing to make a change. Offer lifesaving support in times of crises; advocating for social justice, gender equality, equal access to basic needs by everyone.
• Equality and inclusivity-we promote educational equality through advocating for inclusion programs in schools for children with special needs to ensure that no child is left behind as well as have access to the same opportunities as their peers. Ensuring that children with special needs are treated properly, safeguarding them against all forms of maltreatment and abuse. Provide training and education to teachers, parents, and caregiver regarding mental health disorders that affects children to assist them in better understands the needs to special children and how to provide effective support and services.

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In Nigeria there are over 19 million out of school children, which is the highest rate in the world. This includes children who never started formal schooling and those who started but later dropped out. The education depravation is driven by various factors i.e. economic barriers and social cultural norms and practices that discourage attendance in formal education, especially for girl child. We plan to work alongside the government and other stakeholders to tackle this issue of out of school children in Nigeria, through Rebuilding and expanding infrastructure, more enrolment sensitization, economic intervention, improve security and legal enforcement by creating policies that will hold parents and caregivers accountable for their children and wards truancy. The education deprivation in Nigeria is driven by various factors, including economic barriers and socio-cultural norms and practices that discourage attendance in formal education, especially for girls.
ROPF aim at providing the following services Many widows in our communities suffer many challenges including harmful traditional practices, discrimination and disinheritance, which lives them and their children homeless, helpless with no hope. Empowerment and Economic Support: ROPF aim at empowering widows and female head of households to overcome poverty through skill based training, entrepreneur programs, providing them with capital to start businesses which will in turn help them become self sufficient and provide better care to themselves, their children and their community. Childs Rights Protection. We aim to continue working to protect Children’s rights, identify at risk children who are vulnerable to or experiencing difficulty and challenging situations, i.e. children without family support, children who are forced to engage in prostitution, child labor, abused and trafficked children, children affected by substance use and abuse, children forced to become children soldiers, civil unrest, calamity and much more. Mental Health and Spiritual well being. We aim to work with communities of faith to support at risk children, widows and motherless babies.