Integration Project: 5,252 Persons Receive Health, Social Empowerment Services The Integration of Microcredit and Social Service project of LAPO is aimed at improving the health conditions of clients of LAPO Microfinance Bank through routine healthy sensitisation and screening for tropical diseases. In October 2023, 5,252 microcredit clients were trained on maternal and child health care…

LAPO Spends N300m On Cancer Programme In 7yrs Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) says it spent over N300 million on sensitization, prevention, screening, referral, mitigation and treatment of cancer between 2016 and 2021. Honestus Obadiora, the executive director of the organization said the programme was undertaken by the LAPO Community Campaign for Cancer Control (LAPO-C4)…

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO), says no fewer than 16,139 persons were screened for cancer between October 2017 and November 2018. Mrs Sabina Idowu-Osehobo, the Executive Director of LAPO, made this known on Friday in Benin. Idowu-Osehobo said that the figure was collated from the organisation’s target states of Edo, Lagos,…

Why we rewarded 40 clients in Lagos, Ogun- LAPO LIFT Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO), has rewarded about 40 clients from various divisions across Lagos and Ogun States. They were rewarded during the Client Incentive Programme, which took place at its Abule-Egba branch in Lagos, on Friday, 24 June, 2022. All the clients went home with…

Prof. Charles Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, says magical miracle centres can be a stumbling block to having and supporting an effective health system in the country. Soludo, therefore, called for a collective response in tackling poor healthcare systems, poverty and other major challenges facing the country. Soludo made the…

LAPO-C4: 2,566 Community Members Enlightened, Screened The LAPO Community Campaign for Cancer Control (LAPO-C4) is a community-based health intervention project aimed at reducing cancer-related deaths in Nigeria through public awareness on prevention and early detection of malignant cases. In December2023, the organisation sensitized and screened 2,472 community members on Breast, Cervical and Prostate cancer and…