SCCWI’s Feed The Children Project feeds over 3,000 vulnerable children and PWDs across Lagos slums and Ogun State on Children’s Day 2026
The Street Child Care and Welfare Initiative (SCCWI), a registered non-governmental organisation headquartered in Yaba, Lagos, marked Nigeria’s Children’s Day on Wednesday, 27 May 2026, by providing free meals and clean drinking water to more than 3,000 vulnerable children and persons with disabilities living in slums, displacement camps, and on the streets of Lagos and parts of Ogun State, under the organisation’s annual Feed The Children Project.
The outreach, one of the most expansive editions of the initiative to date, spanned communities including Oko Agbon, Ikorodu, the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Igbo Efon in Lekki, Oshodi, Mushin, Ologo Otto Slum, Oko Baba, Yaba, and selected communities across Ogun State. More than 30 volunteers from Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, and Osun States dedicated between five hours and three full days of service to reach beneficiaries across these communities.
SCCWI, which has operated from 16 Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, for over a decade, reaffirmed its mission with characteristic resolve. The organisation declared: “We believe no child should go hungry. Through the Feed The Children Project, we are not only providing meals but also restoring hope and reminding vulnerable children that they are valued and cared for.”
The sentiment was echoed on the ground.
A community leader at one of the outreach points told volunteers that “programmes like this bring relief to families and children who struggle daily to meet their basic needs.”
One young beneficiary, visibly moved by the gesture, offered a response that captured the spirit of the day: “Thank you for the food. I am happy today.”
The Feed The Children Project was launched in 2020, the same year a previous SCCWI outreach fed approximately 1,400 street children across eight Lagos communities during the Covid-19 lockdown, when child vulnerability was particularly acute.
Since that inaugural edition, the project has grown steadily in scale, mobilising broader volunteer networks and extending its reach to more underserved communities with each passing year.
The 2026 edition, with more than 3,000 beneficiaries reached, represents a more than twofold increase on the project’s starting figures, reflecting both the deepening need and SCCWI’s growing capacity to respond.
The context lending urgency to this work is stark. The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises confirmed that 266 million people across 47 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2025, with Nigeria listed alongside conflict-affected nations as one of the most severely affected. UNICEF had previously reported that approximately 11 million Nigerian children; one in every three under the age of five, were experiencing severe child food poverty.
The World Food Programme estimated that 11 million people across six states in Nigeria’s north-east and north-west face acute food insecurity in the current period, and the Global Hunger Index 2025 ranked Nigeria 115th out of 123 countries assessed.
Against this backdrop, civil society organisations such as SCCWI are increasingly filling the gaps left by overstretched state welfare systems.
A volunteer who participated in this year’s outreach underscored the deeply personal impact of the work: “The smiles on the children’s faces made every minute of our service worthwhile. It was a humbling experience.”
SCCWI is a registered charity with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria (registration number 26903) and holds registration with the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development and the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
The organisation is also a member of the UNICEF-sponsored Child Protection Network and the Nigerian Network of NGOs.
Beyond feeding outreaches, SCCWI runs a residential rehabilitation centre, conducts periodic street outreach across metropolitan Lagos, and offers psychosocial counselling, vocational training, and educational support to children rescued from street situations.
Former UN Development Programme Administrator and ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, who once visited the SCCWI centre alongside the head of UNICEF’s Lagos office, described it as “a remarkable NGO” that offered vulnerable children “a fresh start.”
Whilst welcoming the success of the 2026 outreach, SCCWI acknowledged that the scale of child deprivation across Nigeria demands far more than any single initiative can address.
The organisation called on individuals, corporate bodies, and government agencies to deepen their support for child welfare interventions, noting that sustainable partnerships remain essential to expanding the reach and long-term impact of programmes like the Feed The Children Project.
SCCWI extended appreciation to all donors, volunteers, partners, and supporters whose generosity made this year’s outreach possible and indicated its commitment to continuing such work in the months ahead.
Street Child Care and Welfare Initiative (SCCWI) can be reached at info@sccwi.org or on +234 806 027 5976 and +234 808 155 4123. The organisation is based at 16 Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.
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