Corporate organizations are aware of the value of investing in strategic causes and the FOODBANK NAIJA serves as a platform for the corporate world to express their corporate social responsibility by contributing back to society. We are thus calling on Corporate organizations to become FOODBANK NAIJA Corporate Partners, working together to alleviate hunger in Nigeria.

How do you join?

• Become a partner for the Intervention program of Food Bank. Click here to proceed
• Take your company through corporate social responsibility and employee volunteering by volunteering to work in Lagos Food Bank.

BENEFITS OF PARTNERSHIP WITH FOODBANK NAIJA:

1. We offer a platform for your organization to promote your CSR activities through our active social media presence on Instagram, Twitter LinkedIn and Facebook.
2. In addition to effectively fulfilling your CRS goals, you get the benefit of being part of a committed and empathetic team of volunteers at FOODBANK NAIJA who will ensure food relief is brought to struggling families while also creating future industry doors of opportunity for you in your area of expertise.
3. International outreach/nation presence: We have greater visibility of your company's corporate social responsibility on our Facebook platform to touch an additional thousands of lives.
4. Your organization gets to be featured in our annual report which is viewed and downloaded by over 2,000,000 people worldwide
5. We create an avenue for interested staff in your organization to volunteer their time for humanitarian works and also providing an opportunity for your staff to have an interface with the indigent communities outside the walls of the office environment.
6. Contributing to your community through FOODBANK NAIJA will help your organisation improve your relationships with your existing customers/clients (and gain new ones), peers and staff.
7. By donating to FOODBANK NAIJA, your business is word-of-mouth marketing your values and intentions, and introducing you to or re-introducing you to customers/clients who are concerned about what we do at FOODBANK NAIJA or have already experienced your product/services once through FOODBANK NAIJA.
8. Greater aid effectiveness: Due to FOODBANK NAIJA, your company is able to conduct its humanitarian work more effectively, creating more resilient local communities and fighting malnutrition.
9. Our outreaches for nutrition and our warehouse pack-out events are innovative and recreational ways that facilitate employee team building and client participation opportunities. Working with the Food Bank not only can help in creating employee morale and teamwork, but also continues the company's corporate social responsibility to give back to the community. These activities can also serve as an opportunity to engage with clients/customers in the provision of service to the less fortunate.
10. As a partner to FOODBANK NAIJA, you get the first seat position to see the information needed on donation usage, mission, finance, etc. It is an open, responsible, and complete experience.
11. As a partner to FOODBANK NAIJA, your organization gets a chance to give back to society while giving back to a good cause.
12. As a partner to FOODBANK NAIJA in the long run helps in increasing sales thereby increasing turnover through promotion and brand loyalty.
13. Through our deep local knowledge, close location to those who need help and wide experience in delivering products, we help your organization reach the most disadvantaged parts of the population quickly and efficiently.
14. Through our wide grassroots experience, we help your organization make basic social change much quicker than you can alone.

We seek the collaboration of the Federal and State Governments to enhance food security by providing access to government-owned or controlled facilities, logistics, and delivery support systems suitable for food banking initiatives. Additionally, we invite capital investment in FOODBANK NAIJA Initiative programs and the development of Local Government Area (LGA) FOODBANK NAIJA Projects.

The Government can further support FOODBANK NAIJA by funding the hiring and management of staff to assist committed and qualified communities in establishing FOODBANK NAIJA. We also request assistance in securing operational facilities for LGA, where available and appropriate.

In return, a public-private partnership with FOODBANK NAIJA offers significant benefits to the Government, including:

10 Key Benefits of Partnering with FOODBANK NAIJA

1. Enhanced Food Security – Ensures access to adequate nutrition for financially vulnerable populations.
2. Private Sector Engagement – Encourages corporate donations and participation in supporting underserved communities.
3. Strengthened Government-People Relationship – Demonstrates government commitment to citizen welfare and social responsibility.
4. Job Creation – Generates employment opportunities within Local Government Area FOODBANK NAIJA.
5. Crime Reduction – Alleviates desperation-driven crimes by addressing food insecurity.
6. Volunteer Opportunities – Engages citizens in community service and social impact initiatives.
7. Disaster Relief Support – Leverages FOODBANK NAIJAI’s existing infrastructure for efficient emergency response.
8. Targeted Nutrition Assistance – Collaborates with organizations supporting malnourished individuals, including those with HIV/AIDS.
9. Reduced Administrative Burden – Enables government to support the needy without managing food bank operations directly.
10. Impactful Public-Private Partnership – Advances a charitable cause through collaborative governance.

We look forward to a fruitful partnership that fosters food security, social welfare, and sustainable community development.

The Nigerian entertainment industry is indeed large, as it intersects globally with many countries home to Nigerian and African descendants. FOODBANK NAIJA Initiative is looking to find opportunities for collaboration with stakeholders in the entertainment industry and influencers, to bring attention to some of the many crucial issues relating to hunger that exists in Nigeria. From actors, athletes, musicians to writers, directors, producers - many organizations can participate.

How can you get involved?

• Make a donation to FOODBANK NAIJA Monthly Projects
• Volunteer with our Monthly Projects and outreachs
• Support FOODBANK NAIJA in your TV, film, or music projects
• Social media engagements and active campaigns

FOODBANK NAIJA believes that through concerted efforts, additional strides can be made towards a hunger-free Nation.

Apart from taking care of the immediate needs of our targeted beneficiaries, we also welcome other forms of partnerships with individuals and corporate bodies to do the following:

1. Drill Boreholes/well with pump with filters or water treatment in one or more under-served communities.
2. Donate Solar powered equipment like rechargeable lamps and bulbs.
3. Refurbish: Public Schools toilets, libraries or give out educational materials like school bags, books and shoes to needy school children
4. Fund School fees or scholarship for needy children in the slum communities
5. Adopt or put a poor family on food scholarship for 6months for periodic food collection from the FOODBANK NAIJA.
6. Donations of medical equipment such as eye glasses, mobility aids such as wheel chairs clutches to individuals living with disabilities, breast pads for breast-feeding mothers
7. Provision of educational materials to children with special needs.
8. Clearing hospital bills for the poor in some general hospitals.
9. Provision of Sanitary pads for girls/ Promotion of sexual health and Prevention of STDs awareness campaign and provision of condoms.
10. Distribute nutritional supplements to Pregnant Women to sustain them through the pregnancy period.
11. Set up small scale enterprises for widows and extremely poor women In Lagos slums and sponsorship for skills acquisition.
12. Distribute Mosquito Nets to vulnerable Families living in the slum.
13. Clean up slums and distribute waste bins for a sustainable and healthy environment
14. Distribute Cooking Stoves to families in the slums
15. Distribute post-delivery kits to nursing mothers.
16. Provide lunch in the form of food vouchers to underprivileged children in different public schools for 3-6 months. The food vendors at schools are paid in advance.
17. Send teenage girls to skill acquisition training and empowerment.
18. Distribute clothes to the slum families. Second-hand clothes are purchased at a very cheap price from a local market and given to children and their parents in the slum.