Lafiya provides modern contraceptives to women who need it and want it, no matter where they live. Lafiya currently operates in four states in northern Nigeria, bringing high-quality family planning counselling and products to women in rural communities. We recruit existing community health workers, on government payroll, and give them specialised training in family planning and a small additional stipend. We launched in 2021 and were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2023. To date, we have reached 350,000+ women with contraceptive access. 49% of our users receive family planning services for the first time in their lives.
Lafiya has seen rapid growth in the last years, but millions of women in Nigeria remain without access to family planning services. The withdrawal of USAID and other bilateral donors has reduced the national budget for buying contraceptives, and community-based work that reaches counterfactual users beyond health care clinics (our speciality) is neglected. With or without bilateral funding, we are ready to do what we can to ensure women are not dying on our watch.
For 2026, we are facing a $950k funding gap on a $2.63M budget. Our current funding raised ($1.68M) will enable us to sustain operations in the four states where we are currently working. Closing our funding gap means that we get to:
Take a look at the CEA that Rethink Priorities made for our program here. Rethink Priorities models that our program may currently be around ~37x cash transfers.
Logistics of donating
If you want to support Lafiya’s growth, your donation is very welcome here. If you are based in the US and thinking of making a larger donation, please contact us celine.kamsteeg@lafiyanigeria.org so we can route it through our fiscal sponsor and make it tax deductible for you.
More information: www.lafiyanigeria.org
For a 2-minute summary of our work, watch this video on our work in Kano state, Nigeria!
Is it the case that you're only accepting donations from the Netherlands, US, and UK? The new website doesn't seem to have an option for making (presumably) non tax-deductible donations from outside of these countries.
Hi David, thanks for checking. You can donate to both our UK and Dutch entity from any country. If you follow the steps on the website, you can donate through credit card and select your country. Sorry this was not clear - I'll have a look how we can make this clearer for future.
If you don't want to pay with credit card and prefer a direct wire, these are our USD account details for the UK entity:
Account holder: Lafiya Nigeria Ltd
Account number: 8314065122
Routing number (ACH or ABA): 026073150
SWIFT/BIC: CMFGUS33
Bank name & address: Community Federal Savings Bank 89-16 Jamaica Ave Woodhaven 11421 United States
Thanks again for your comment and interest in Lafiya. Best wishes, Céline
Thank you for this and your work, Céline! I think something on the donation page (around the three flags) to catch anyone who, like me, got the wrong implication would be useful.