Mission – Kids Of Tomorrow Foundation

A New Phase of Mission: Kids of Tomorrow Expand Lifesaving Interventions

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UNICEF estimates that there are over 153 million orphans across the world. Orphans are often the most vulnerable members of society, lacking anyone to advocate for their safety and healthy development. Kids of Tomorrow Foundation was founded in 2019 with the mission of providing care to orphans in Eastern Nigeria.

Delivering aid to the most vulnerable

The group traveled to Nigeria in 2019 to establish an orphanage to provide shelter and care for vulnerable children. However, on this inaugural trip, they discovered that the community at large had a massive unmet need for medical care due to additional people arriving and relying on an already overburdened system. The population is overall very poor and there are virtually no options for regular care that they can afford.

Expanding care to meet community needs

Tekum Pentecoster, founder of Kids of Tomorrow, began to plan how her group could improve the health of this population. She reached out to medical professionals in the United States to convey the huge need that her and her team had witnessed. Concurrently, she worked with community members back in Cross River and Taraba to see what local resources they could leverage for this new focus of work.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic caused significant delays for beginning to provide healthcare for the community. However, it also gave the Kids of Tomorrow Foundation more time to marshal resources to support their work. This included applying to CMMB to receive donated medicines and medical supplies to bring with them on their mission trip. After reviewing their needs and trip plans, CMMB provided a donation containing a variety of medications for management of chronic diseases as well as treatment for acute conditions such as infections.

Kids of Tomorrow planned their mission carefully. In the weeks leading up to the trip, they had local leaders notify surrounding communities of their impending arrival using local radio, word of mouth, and town criers (people employed to make announcements in villages). Most of the villagers are farm workers, so the team started seeing patients at the crack of dawn and stayed late into the evening to ensure ample opportunity for patients to plan their visit around their work schedules.

As they saw patients, the medical professionals on the team reported numerous cases of chronic conditions that had become life-threatening solely from a lack of detection. People complaining of persistent headaches presented with life threateningly high blood pressure from hypertension. Similarly, many patients had unknowingly been suffering from diabetes for years. Thanks in part to CMMB donations, the team was able to start these patients on therapeutics, giving them control of their health.

Witnessing an impact

The team also reported being blown away by the gratitude of the community members they served. Most had never received high quality care that they didn’t have to pay for. Numerous people returned after their appointments, believing that they had forgotten to pay for the medicines they were prescribed. When they were informed that all care was completely free of charge, some patients asked to stay late and sweep the clinic floor as means of expressing their gratitude.

There is now a small clinic with local health providers regularly seeing patients with support from Kids of Tomorrow. The Foundation is currently constructing a larger health facility in the area that can provide more advanced care. CMMB looks forward to continuing to participate in these efforts to help the vulnerable to live healthier lives.

A child that is properly nurtured will blossom and grow up to be a productive and positive contributor to the society.

Our ultimate long term goal is that the orphanage is able to sustain itself through the incorporation of a greenhouse system.

In its first year of operation, Kids of Tomorrow Foundation will expects to serve at least approximately 80 children who have lost both of their parents as a result of the war in English-speaking Cameroon, in Northern Nigeria and in parts of Eastern Nigeria.

Kids of Tomorrow Foundation will connect the children to adequate health care services immediately upon enrollment to our orphanage facility.

The Kids of Tomorrow orphanage home has accommodation to house 120 kids and 20 live-in guardians. The plan is to have 80 orphans from Cameroon and 40 from Nigeria. There are currently 45 children and 6 guardians at the home.

Kids of Tomorrow Foundation will have each child enrolled in school within the first two months of being registered at the orphanage.

The foundation is guided by the philosophy that there is a seed of potential in every child.

Medical Provisions For Every Child

Kids of Tomorrow Foundation staff are in collaboration with major healthcare services in the city to ensure that the children have easy access to high-quality healthcare.

Serving Healthy Food To Each Child

It's our mission to feed every child under our care properly. Kids of Tomorrow Foundation will ensure the number of children served reach at least 80 by the end of the first operational year.

Providing a Healthy Environment For Every Child

Kids of Tomorrow Foundation staff ensure that the children's hygiene and cleanness is maintained in a serene environment.

Free Education For Every Child

It's our mission at Kids of Tomorrow Foundation to have each child enrolled in school within the first two months of being registered at the orphanage.