“Lafiya’s current funding gap” by celinekamsteeg, Klau Chmielowska

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 [...] --- First published: November 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PDApxsTy4yJrMuoAY/lafiya-s-current-funding-gap --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.