BLIFA

Better Life Initiative for the Aged

Table of Contents

Introduction............................................................................................................................3
The Team ...............................................................................................................................4
Field Missions ........................................................................................................................7
Media Communications .......................................................................................................10
Sustaining Solace .................................................................................................................11
Supporters ............................................................................................................................12
Contact BLIFA ....................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Better Life Initiative for the Aged (BLIFA) is a Nigerian based NonGovernmental Organisation (NGO) dedicated to providing humanitarian services
to poor aged people who have nobody to care for them and are no longer able to
earn a leaving on their own. BLIFA was registered as a corporate organization in
2008 with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) registration No. 27333. It is also
registered with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development
and Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Women Affairs.

Our Vision
To bring succor to every helpless aged person in our communities.

Our Mission
To develop and operate sustainable means of providing humanitarian services to
the poor aged people in our communities.

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The Team
Our Management Team
The management team of Better Life for the Aged (BLIFA) is made up of
seasoned professionals who have wide range of experience in business as well as
humanitarian missions. They have all been involved at one time or another in
handling large projects across disparate economic sectors for various institutions
from design stage through to eventual implementation.

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Sam Ekandem Director of Communication

Sam is the CEO of Jasaty Communications Limited, a
media production firm based in Lagos. He has operated
as a communications consultant and a supplier for more
than thirty years. His major clients include Promasidor
Nigeria, makers of Cowbell milk, Loya and Onga
seasoning. He also provides video production services
for GlaxoSmithKline and AD agencies.
He was in Nigerian Television Authority NTA Benin as an editor for 9 years where he
edited news reports, documentaries and programmes. He won a national award in 1988
as the best editor at Nigerian Festival of Television Programmes (NIFETEP) '88. In the
90s, as a manager post production in Swift Studios, he contributed to some of the top
creative television commercials that hit the Nigerian TV screens. He has been involved
in communications training programmes as participant and instructor including BBC
World Service Journalism Training on News and Conflict Reporting between 2000 and
2002; and Shoot Digital Motion Pictures Master Class in 2005. Holds a diploma in
social work practice, University of Benin 1990.

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Monday Edet - Director, Research and

Development
Monday is the CEO of Spania Consulting a
multi-disciplinary consulting firm based in
Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a B.Sc degree in
Computer Science and Statistics from the
University of Uyo; a Diploma in Offshore
Drilling Technology under the INTSOK Norway/NNPC Nigeria collaboration; a
certificate in Radio Communications Technology from Breezecom (now
Alvarion) in Israel; and a certificate in Business Presentations from Lagos
Business School, Lagos, Nigeria. He managed the development of prototype of
Real-time Computer Assisted leak detection/location reporting and inventory loss
monitoring system for pipeline networks, based on Patented work No.: US
2005/0246112 A1 of November 3, 2005. He supervised and managed the- NNPC
(PPMC) Radar Gauging and Inventory Management system for 6 PPMC Depots
with Motorized Valve Control. He managed the Akwa Ibom State interministerial Metropolitan Area (Wireless) Network across key government
departments. He is the author of various outstanding titles including Intellectual
Leadership in Governance of Lagos State: Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN; and
First 100 Years of the Nigerian Economy 1914-2014: Official Commemorative
Book.

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Field Missions
BLIFA Field missions are organized under three categories aimed at providing
succor to the poor aged people as well as preventing the youth and grassroots
women from falling into the trap of poverty and associated condition at old age.

Category 1: Quarterly Visitation

Category 1 mission involves providing relief materials to the poor aged people of
the communities on quarterly basis. In our previous projects, communities
covered included Ikot Ekpene, Essien Udim, Uyo, Mbo and Ikono.

Blind beneficiary of quarterly visitation

Beneficiary of quarterly visitation

Beneficiary of quarterly visitation

Beneficiary of quarterly visitation

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Category 2: Research for Sustainable Project development

Category 2 field missions involve conducting research for sustainable project
development for the aged. In this direction, workshops are organized for women
development officers and community coordinators to provide on the spot
information in respect of community projects which proceeds can help sustain the
poor aged people.

BLIFA Coordinators capture data from Women

Development Officers

BLIFA Coordinators capture data from Women

Development Officers

BLIFA Coordinators capture data from Women

Development Officers

BLIFA Coordinators capture data from Women

Development Officers

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Category 3: Women and Youth Enlightenment

In the effort to ensure that grassroots women and youths are not trapped in the
poverty cycle in their old age, BLIFA organizes enlightenment workshops and
seminars to educate them on poverty alleviation options including life insurance
plans. In this wise, BLIFA collaborates with insurance as well as health providers.
This enlightenment and empowerment programmes are also aimed at reducing the
burden of caring for helpless aged people by government and extended family.

Women and Youth Empowerment Workshop

Women and Youth Empowerment Workshop

Community Co-coordinator asking questions

Women and Youth Empowerment Workshop

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Media Communications
BLIFA has a policy of collaborating with the media. This policy is aimed at
continuously placing on the centre stage on the spotlight, the sub-human
conditions in which the majority of our aged people are living. It is the hope of
BLIFA that by highlighting these unacceptable conditions in the media, it will
touch a heart or two that somebody in authority will think of something
sustainable to do for these people, or even an ordinary man on the street with a
naira or two or welfare materials to spare, will look in the direction of these
helpless aged people.

BLIFA Initiator, Lion Imeh Inyang making

presentations to Coordinators

BLIFA Board of Trustees Secretary, Ime Clement Udoh at

Q&A session of the 2013 Coordinators' Conference

BLIFA Director of Communications, Mr. Sam

Ekandem,
makes public presentation on the
activities of BLIFA

BLIFA Initiator, Lion Imeh Inyang, makes clarifications

on the activities of BLIFA

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Sustaining Solace
Subsequent to our coordinators conferences, various micro-scale industries have
been identified to be cited in various communities in Akwa Ibom State. These
would be exhibited on our websites and letters would also be sent to prospective
sponsors.

BLIFA looks forward to collaborations with Governments and Corporate

organisations, Not-For-Profit organisations and high net worth individuals
towards citing and operating location-relevant micro-scale industries which
profits can provide stipends to aged people on sustainable basis.
In this regard, it is our policy to exercise care to ensure that these projects are well
managed from the level of feasibility study and business plan through to day-today operations and stipend administration.

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Supporters
Our supporters are corporate and not-for-profit organisations and individuals who
are touched by the sub-human conditions in which the great majority of the aged
people live, especially in the grassroots.

These organisations and people provide technical and financial support, and also
materials that enable our field missions.

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Contact BLIFA
Contact Details
BETTER LIFE INITIATIVE FOR THE AGED
Lagos Office

Abuja Office

Uyo Office

6, Atunwa Street
Off Unity Road
Ikeja, Lagos

Suit C33, Danziyat Plaza

Opp. NNPC Mega Station
Central Area
Abuja

25, Ikot Abasi Street

Off Udo Umana Street
Uyo
Akwa Ibom State

Tel.: 0802 434 5005

Tel.: 0806 1607377

Tel.:

0803 304 5481

0802 328 5665

Email: info@blifango.org
Website: www.blifango.org

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