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Flood in Lagos: help Marketplace village rebuild

Neighbors in Marketplace village are rebuilding after the flood; every contribution goes to materials and supplies.

🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria512 views
Kingsley Tayo Fashola
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Lagos
The flood hit Marketplace village on 26 September. My home was one of 50 damaged, and 14 families are still in temporary shelter at the local school gym. The first few days we shared what little we had. Now the cleanup has started, but we've no money for materials and winter or the rainy season is coming. Schools in the area have been closed, and the clinic lost its cold storage for vaccines. We're a small community of working families who have never asked for help before. We have formed a volunteer committee, and I'm the treasurer, so I'll post receipts for everything we buy. Funds go to building materials, water purification supplies, bedding, and food for families still in shelters. Where the $1,000 goes: • Roofing sheets and timber: $530 • Clean water and purification supplies: $85 • Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $150 • Food parcels for displaced families: $115 • Tools and labor for repairs: $120 Thanks for reading all this.
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Updates from Kingsley

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 25% funded and I met with the suppliers and confirmed the amounts. - Kingsley

  2. Wanted to say thank you properly. 20% funded and the plan for tools and labor for repairs is now scheduled.

  3. Update from Lagos: the plan for food parcels for displaced families is now scheduled. We're at 14% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Gaurav F. Sandhu

    This could happen to any of us. After 17 years in nursing I know how hard it is to ask for anything

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