ABOUT SamuelDEBORAH FOUNDATION
SamuelDEBORAH Foundation exists not only to meet the material needs of elderly people, but also to defend their human rights and to promote healthy ageing principles and values across all ages.
Building Futures Programme
Child Protection for Healthy Ageing Project
This project is a reproductive health &life skills education advocacy and sensitization project targeted to reach public primary and secondary schools with the aim of preparing pupils/students for healthy ageing and increasing affirmative actionsfor both the girl and boy-child (aged 6-19 years)to eliminate gender violence and sexual abuse against them both atschool and the community.
Artisans Ageing Well Project
This project involves capacity-building workshops and specialized trainings for workers whose trade involves making things through their hands or human labour rather than by mechanized tools. Targeted beneficiaries include masons/builders, carpenters, painters, tailors, electricians and other technicians. By their trade, these categories of workers are often exposed to hazardous working…
Clean-Green Environments for Healthy Ageing Project
This project aims at designing and implementing workable environmental sanitation and waste management solutions in line with the healthy ageing objective of creating enabling, age-friendly environments that optimize the functional ability of persons of all ages to achieve healthy ageing. Activities here include: raising community awareness on…
Elderly Care Programme
SDF Elderly Care Project
This project offers fully-customized services to support our clients/beneficiaries in their own homes. The overarching objective of this project is to provide comfort, safety, dignity, and care-on-demand services in an environment of trust, care, compassion, and respect at mutually agreed terms. Specifically, elderly care services here include: a) vital signs checks; b) wellness care; c) live-in-care; d) respite care; e) health reminders care; f) hygiene care; g) physical assistance care; h) non-medical care; i) memory care; and j) end-of-life care.
SDF Elderly Caregiving & Support Skills Project
This project involves a certificate training course where passionate individuals interested in assuming responsibility of providing care for elderly persons in their homes, families and communities are capacitated with basic skills and competencies in elderly caregiving and support. Deliverable skill-sets that activities and contents of this project seeks to offer include: i) understanding ageing and health; ii) general principles of elderly caregiving; iii) foods and medications for healthy ageing; iv) counseling elderly persons; v) managing…
SDF Volunteers’ Network Project
This project aims at mobilizing and engaging a pool of passionate professionals (students, social workers, medics, clergies, educators, lawyers, artisans, and community organizers) willing to offer their skills and services to improve the wellbeing of elderly persons in need. Advocacy here include: health talks for elderly persons; protecting rights and privileges of elderly persons; preventing elderly abuse; organizing and maintaining community support groups/centres for elderly persons; games for elderly persons; skill transfer by elderly persons…
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a) Child Protection for Healthy Ageing Project: This project is a reproductive health &life skills education advocacy and sensitization project targeted to reach public primary and secondary schools with the..
Who We Are
SamuelDEBORAH Foundation is committed to generating and engaging evidence-based solutions that add value to ageing; thereby empowering vulnerable peoples’ groups across all ages to live healthy and dignified lives.
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It is estimated that by year 2030, about one in every six persons in the world will be 60 years of age or older. This proportion will increase to one..