Who we are
Mission to Elderlies Foundation is an organization that has Mission to Elderlies project (ME Project) as its’ primary project, aimed at providing hospital based and community based geriatric services to the aging population.
While we have a responsibility to vulnerable groups, our primary goal is to serve the older population who we believe have not received the deserving attention.
We are a team of passionate health and other related professionals who are on a MISSION of taking medicine and mission to older persons, in order to achieve our VISION of making care accessible, acceptable, and affordable for older persons in Africa.
In addition, we:
- make care accessible through partnering with hospitals including community hospitals to institute geriatric clinics and training of health providers on healthcare of the older patient.
- make care acceptable through engaging case managers to provide home-based care to our beneficiaries (older persons) and providing Household economic strengthening (HES) activities to caregivers of our beneficiaries to care for their older ones in age age-friendly ‘family’ environment thereby encouraging aging-in-place.
- Make care affordable by enrolling our beneficiaries into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare.
- Provide nutrition assessment and intervention including food support;
- Institute geriatric drug banks in communities to serve chronically ill elderly patients needing a routine supply of drugs
- Provide eye care including giving of eyeglasses.
- Provide materials preventive and protective materials like walking sticks, prostheses, hearing aids, and ITN
- Conduct home visits by trained case managers to carry out home-based assessment, service provision, and health education;
- Reintegrate homeless elderly to nuclear and extended family units;
- Provide counseling and intervention on legal and protection-related matters through the legal unit.
- Provide psychosocial services through the hosting of community-based socially relevant and spiritually sensitive forums for beneficiaries and their caregivers
- Conduct system strengthening for health systems and policymakers; carry out advocacy to government, civil society organizations, community gatekeepers, and general audience on age-related matters such as combating ageism and elderly abuse;
- Provide structured curriculum-based training for health workers and students and older persons and their caregivers on healthy aging;
- Contribute to knowledge and body of science through developing of data capturing tools, conducting research and publications on aging-related topics.
Our Aim
We partner with individual philanthropists, groups, organizations and government to reach out annually to a 1000 older persons with 5213 reached so far. Yet with expanded partnerships, we have a mandate of reaching to 1,000,000 older persons in Africa.
Our Team

Dr. Amara Frances Chizoba

Dr. Asiegbu Chinedu J

Dr. Chima Joshua C

Pastor Enoch C. Ndubuisi

Chioma E. Osumuo
