Dispatches from the field — read the latest updates, success stories, and community impact reports from COF’s programmes across Oyo State.
To mark World Tuberculosis Day 2026, the Christiana Olawumi Foundation expanded its community-level TB case-finding activities into 19 previously unreached communities across Ogbomoso and surrounding LGAs. Volunteer health workers conducted sputum sample collections and GeneXpert referrals, identifying 47 presumptive cases in a single week of intensive outreach.
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The COF Orphanage Home in Ogbomoso now shelters 15 children, providing daily meals, education, and psychosocial support. Recent improvements include new dormitory facilities and a dedicated study hall funded by community donors.
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COF’s FGM prevention team conducted a week-long awareness campaign across 12 communities, engaging traditional leaders, women’s groups, and youth advocates to challenge harmful cultural norms around female genital mutilation.
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In a new partnership with the Oyo State Ministry of Health, COF will scale up community-based HIV testing services to six additional LGAs, targeting key populations and hard-to-reach rural areas with rapid diagnostic testing.
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Our TB field officers share their experiences from a three-week screening exercise in rural Oyo communities, where door-to-door visits uncovered presumptive cases that had gone undetected for months in underserved areas.
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Since launching the online Community Protection Hub, COF has received and processed over 60 confidential reports of child abuse, GBV, and stigma, connecting survivors with legal aid, counselling, and safe shelter services.
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