aHE Initiative: We care about you and your environment

At Arkosic Health and Environmental Initiative, we believe

Health is wealth. Water is life. A drop of water makes an ocean

We are a Nigerian non-profit working on water, sanitation and hygiene, community health and education, starting from our immediate community.

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Schoolchildren and Arkosic volunteers in white T-shirts raise their hands in front of a Global Handwashing Day banner.
Global Handwashing Day, “Raise a Hand for Hygiene”, Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, 22 October 2015.
Since 2012
We began with visits to motherless homes and community development services.
CAC/IT/NO 65610
Registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on 21 November 2013.
SCUML registered
Registered with the EFCC Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering, No. SC301400066.

What we do

Five areas of work, with children, women and vulnerable people at the centre of each.

Water, sanitation and hygiene

WASH and Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

All 11 WASH activities
  • WASH in rural communities
  • WASH in schools
  • Water quality testing
  • Community-Led Total Sanitation
  • Health care services for rural communities
  • Health clubs in schools
  • Malaria, HIV and immunization programmes
  • Child rights and human rights

Environment and climate

Climate change and environmental health

All 6 environmental activities
  • Sensitization on climate change
  • Sensitization on waste disposal
  • Environmental sanitation in communities
  • Environmental sustainability

Education

  • Provision of writing materials
  • Provision of basic educational kits for schoolchildren

Consultancy and counselling

All 7 consultancy services
  • Training in health, safety and environment
  • Proposal writing
  • Technical assistance
  • Fundraising

In the field

Between 2014 and 2016: hygiene promotion in 64 primary schools, Community-Led Total Sanitation in 24 communities, and monitoring in 12 local government areas of Osun State. See our track record

Pupils seated at desks outdoors on a school field during a handwashing talk.
Sensitization on handwashing in schools, Ikotun Local Government, Lagos
A large group of training participants gathered outside a building.
Training on hygiene promotion in schools and provision of handwashing facilities
A facilitator speaking to a seated audience in a hall.
Facilitating teachers, SBMC, PTA and WES on menstrual hygiene and girl-child rights

Our mission

To mobilize resources for basic support for children, women, the vulnerable and the disabled, through education, advocacy, training and intervention.

Our vision

To meet the daily technological challenges confronting the health and environmental sector in Africa, starting with Nigeria.

Our goal

Being the driving force for community development, women, a sustainable environment and healthy living.

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Clean hands save lives

Handwashing prevents hygiene-related illnesses and infectious diseases. These are free to read, watch and share.

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Our donors and partners

  • Microsoft Philanthropies
  • TechSoup
  • African Development Bank
  • Google for Nonprofits
  • State of Osun

Our donors also include UNICEF, GTBank (Alausa branch, Lagos) and Ascorn Oil & Gas.

Our fingerprints on the lives we touch never fade.

You can be the smile on people’s faces today. Give, sponsor a whole project, or write to us about working together.

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