This report documents the planning, implementation, outcomes, and lessons from the 2024 edition of Cecilia’s Sustenance, Opportunities, and Welfare (C-SOW) Campaign – an annual humanitarian outreach supported by Graft Africa to provide hunger relief and community-based support to vulnerable women and households in Nigeria.
In May 2024, the sixth edition of Cecilia’s Sustenance, Opportunities, and Welfare (C-SOW) Campaign reached 40 women-led households in Imo State, Nigeria, with urgently needed food supplies, impacting over 200 people amid one of Nigeria’s most challenging periods of inflation and food insecurity.
This report provides a detailed account of the 2024 edition of Cecilia’s Sustenance, Opportunities, and Welfare (C-SOW) Campaign, a community-driven humanitarian effort that has, for six consecutive years, provided food relief and livelihood support to vulnerable women and households in Imo State, Nigeria.
The 2024 outreach was organized and convened locally by Lady Ebere Cecilia Agada, with Graft Africa contributing by coordinating digital fundraising and leading the development of this outcome report to capture key insights, challenges, and lessons learned.
Report Highlights:
- Contextual drivers of the campaign, including rising inflation, insecurity, and supply chain constraints in Nigeria’s food system.
- Direct food support reaching 40 women-led households and impacting over 200 individuals.
- Reflections from the long-standing convener of the outreach, whose leadership continues to shape and sustain the initiative.
- Testimonials from the beneficiaries.
- Lessons on navigating grassroots logistics, donor engagement, and sustainability constraints.
- The evolving role of C-SOW as an entry point into longer-term, locally anchored resilience efforts.
C-SOW Campaign, now renamed “Resilient Roots Outreach,” is not just a charity project. It’s a scaffold; a locally-rooted platform for listening, learning, and launching readiness for long-term solutions, one outreach at a time.
Read the full report below and see how local leadership, public solidarity, and strategic intent converged in the 2024 C-SOW Campaign.
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