Author: Chikezie Onuoha

  • International Day of Charity 2025

    Tomorrow, September 5th, we join the world in celebrating the International Day of Charity — a day dedicated to recognizing the power of compassion, solidarity, and giving. Every year the Missionaries of Charity, the religious Congregation founded by Mother Theresa, celebrates her feast day on 5 September. This date was therefore chosen by the United…

  • Local Entrepreneurship Access Programme (LEAP)

    Our Entrepreneurship Development Centre is part of SAID Nigeria’s Local Access Entrepreneurship Programme (LEAP). The activities of the Entrepreneurship Centre are both short term and long-term. Short-term aims to make sure vulnerable children are helped back to school and to complete their education through our Ensuring Access To Basic Education Programme (EATBEP), in other words…

  • Why cry about the trails of the USAID?

    US aid agency (USAID) has been in upheaval since Trump’s foreign assistance freeze and staff departures. The Trump administration has informed that it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, moving to all but end a six-decade mission. The administration believes that the…

  • News about the Okuku housing project.

    Some SAID Nigeria supporters have been asking for update concerning the Okuku, Owerri social housing project. No one is a stranger to the economic hardship that came upon Nigeria when the present government took over in 2023. Inflation is at all time high and poverty is on the increase. As a charity, we are most…

  • What do you know about SpringAid International Development (SAID Nigeria)?

    SpringAid International Development (SAID Nigeria) is a registered non-profit organisation with a solid track record in community development, poverty reduction, entrepreneurship training, and human rights advocacy, particularly among women and youth in Imo State and other parts of Southeast Nigeria. Established by Revd Dr Chikezie Onuoha in 2009 as the Nigerian partner to SpringAid Sweden,…