For whom
Nigerian families
Affected patient, carer, siblings, household. Open intake — no income test.
Affected patient, carer, siblings, household. Open intake — no income test.
Operational in Nigeria, expanding our presence community by community.
Established in memory of Boluwatiwi Anthonia Animasahun — and in her spirit.
Patients, carers, students, widows, and orphanages reached across all programmes.
How to read these. Each entry is a self-contained spec — who it serves, how a family accesses it, and what we do once we're alongside them.
From the first diagnosis through scans, surgery, and the long slow business of recovery: a named caseworker walks alongside the family. Helplines, family counselling, scan navigation, surgery-day support, and post-treatment recovery groups. We do not provide medical care — we make the medical care reachable.
We cover school fees during active treatment, fund home tutoring while a child can't attend, and run re-entry programmes for the months back in the classroom. We also fund sibling scholarships, because when one child is sick the others' education is often the first thing a family quietly stops paying for.
Food drives and practical support near hospitals. Hostel-stay funding for families travelling far from home for treatment. Bereavement support for the families where care moves to grief. The quiet logistics that make everything else work.
Working with hospitals and clinicians to fund scans, subsidise surgeries, and run mobile screening clinics in under-served communities. The medicine isn't ours; the bill we help carry, is. This is the programme that turns “you need an MRI” from a sentence into something a family can act on.
A call, a referral, a walk-in. We listen first — no forms, no triage. The first conversation is the work.
Family + caseworker pick the one programme to start with. We rank one need above the others — the rest follow.
Funds, scans, hostel, tuition deployed. We're present at the moment of decision — not only at the moment of payment.
Recovery groups, alumni circles, annual check-ins. Most families stay in monthly contact; some become the volunteers who answer the next call.
On loops, not funnels. Standard charity logic moves families from intake to “case closed.” Ours doesn't. The families who came through us still hear from us — and many of them become the people who help us find the next family that needs us.
Pick the programme that moves you. Your gift goes directly to the families and individuals who need it — every contribution makes a difference.
We onboard a cohort each quarter. Two evenings of training, then a programme assignment that matches your skills, your schedule, and what the families need.
Door 03 · The quiet one. If you've come here looking for help, not to give it — call us on 0700 BSF CARE, weekdays 9 – 6 WAT. We pick up.
Call the helpline