No More Handouts
Across Northern Nigeria, hunger is rising fast as humanitarian aid shrinks, food prices soar, and families are pushed closer to survival mode. Now, women and children are not asking for handouts anymore, they are asking for the means to work, earn, and sustain their households with dignity.
This campaign is our response: empowering 1000 women with practical baking skills and starter tools so they can generate income within weeks, feed their families consistently, and break the cycle of dependency.
No More Handouts
Across Northern Nigeria, hunger is rising fast as humanitarian aid shrinks, food prices soar, and families are pushed closer to survival mode. Now, women and children are not asking for handouts anymore, they are asking for the means to work, earn, and sustain their households with dignity.
This campaign is our response: empowering 1000, women with practical baking skills and starter tools so they can generate income within weeks, feed their families consistently, and break the cycle of dependency.
Across Northern Nigeria, hunger is rising fast as humanitarian aid shrinks, food prices soar, and families are pushed closer to survival mode.
Now, women and children are not asking for handouts anymore, they are asking for the means to work, earn, and sustain their households with dignity.
This campaign is our response: empowering 1000 women and with practical baking skills and starter tools so they can generate income within weeks, feed their families consistently, and break the cycle of dependency.
Why This Matters Now: Nigeria's Worst Ever Hunger Crisis
Nigeria is now one of the countries hardest hit by a growing hunger crisis in West and Central Africa. According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), an estimated 55 million people across the region are expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse during the June–August 2026 lean season unless urgent action and funding are mobilised. Nigeria, along with Chad, Cameroon and Niger, accounts for 77 % of this food insecurity, placing it among the worst-affected countries in the region.
In Nigeria’s conflict-ravaged northeast, especially in Borno State, around 15,000 people are now at risk of catastrophic hunger (IPC Phase 5) for the first time in nearly a decade, as humanitarian support shrinks and conflict continues. The crisis has a disproportionate impact on children: the UN reports that over 13 million children in the region could suffer acute malnutrition in 2026 unless food assistance is sustained and expanded.
Funding shortfalls have already forced life-saving nutrition programmes in Nigeria to be scaled back. In 2025, reduced resources meant that assistance reached far fewer people compared with previous lean seasons, a drastic reversal at a time when needs are rising rapidly.
At Lydia Wilson Foundation (LWF), we believe the most sustainable response to hunger is empowerment. For the 1000 women this campaign will reach, empowerment means more than food, it is the chance to stop begging, earn their own income, and reclaim dignity and respect. Many have not been home in years, displaced by herdsmen occupation and persistent violence, uncertain if they will ever return.
This campaign gives them the tools to rebuild wherever they are, while holding onto the hope that their children may one day return to a safe home and find their families standing. With practical baking skills and starter equipment, they can produce, sell, and earn consistently, not just to survive, but to build stability, reclaim purpose, and create a future that extends beyond survival.
What Each Beneficiary Receives:
Donation Options:
Sponsor 1 person: ₦60,000 | £31 | $40
Sponsor 2 people: ₦120,000 | £62 | $80
Sponsor 5 people: ₦300,000 | £155 | $200
Sponsor 10 people: ₦600,000 | £310 | $400
Donors may also choose to sponsor specific items, such as:
- 2 baking starter kits
- Ingredients for 5 trainees
- Full training cost for 10 participants
What Each Beneficiary Receives
Donation Options:
Sponsor 1 person: ₦60,000 | £31 | $40
Sponsor 2 people: ₦120,000 | £62 | $80
Sponsor 5 people: ₦300,000 | £155 | $200
Sponsor 10 people: ₦600,000 | £310 | $400
Donors may also choose to sponsor specific items, such as:
- 2 baking starter kits
- Ingredients for 5 trainees
- Full training cost for 10 participants
Looking to Donate Via Other Payment Options?
Feel free to use any of the available donation options.
We Are Upscaling; Not Starting from Scratch
We are not starting from scratch. This campaign builds on real results, not promises.
In April 2023, the foundation, in partner with Archibol cake and events hosted a 4-weeks widow empowerment course involving classes on cake making and sweet treats. At the end of the course, each widow received an oven and basic baking kit that now helped them kickstart their own business.
In July 2020, following the attack and occupation of Fulani herdsmen between May 19- 24th, relief materials and bags of fertilisers were procured for the IDPs and delivered to Kajuru LGA of Kaduna through our local partner RADI. These supplies enabled the enrichment of their farmlands for sustainable income through farming and trading the produce.
Beyond The Dough — Throw a Lifeline
These women and children have the courage and determination to work. They just need the tools to start. Every contribution matters. Throw a lifeline to the 1000 women ready to take the first step toward a stable, independent future.
Beyond The Dough — Throw a Lifeline
These women and children have the courage and determination to work. They just need the tools to start. Every contribution matters. Throw a lifeline to Sofiyah and the 999 ready to take the first step toward a stable, independent future.
About Lydia Wilson Foundation
About Lydia Wilson
Foundation
Lydia Wilson Foundation is a non-profit, non-religious, and non-political international non-governmental organisation focused on improving the living conditions of vulnerable individuals and families with outreach programmes in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and United States.
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