UK Aid Match 4 - healthcare for under-fives in Nigeria

Reducing child mortality and morbidity rates in Benue State, Nigeria.

Our Partnership for Improved Child Health (PICH), Christian Aid Nigeria’s flagship UK Aid match funded health project, closed in August 2019.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of children in Nigeria do not live until their fifth birthday due to preventable childhood illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and severe acute malnutrition. 

The PICH project provided front-line, life-saving treatment to children under five in remote communities in Benue State Nigeria. 

Since September 2016, Christian Aid Nigeria has been working in four Local Government Areas, Kwande, Konshisha, Obi and Opokwu to reduce child mortality and morbidity rates. 

Through our local partners Jireh Doo Foundation and Ohonyeta Care Givers, we have: 

• Trained nearly 1,000 community health volunteers to provide lifesaving treatment in the community.
• Reached more than 360,000 children with lifesaving support from malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea, through Christian Aid trained community health volunteers. 

In March 2018, a group of participants in Benue State, Nigeria, documented the challenges their community faced in accessing healthcare and how Christian Aid's project, funded by UK aid, is improving their daily lives.