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Press kit
Everything journalists need to write about Smiles for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Initiative (SOVCI): a short description, key facts, logos, photos and past coverage.
About SOVCI — boilerplate
Short (50 words)
Smiles for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Initiative (SOVCI) is a non-governmental organisation in Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission. SOVCI supports orphans, vulnerable children and the orphanage homes that care for them, through outreaches, Children’s Day celebrations and its Streets to School project.
Long (150 words)
Smiles for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Initiative (SOVCI) is a non-governmental organisation based in Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC No. 165554). Its mission is to ensure that every orphan and vulnerable child, irrespective of gender, race and belief, gets the chance to have a happy and fulfilled life. SOVCI raises support for children’s education, feeding, health care and general welfare, and takes it to orphanage homes through outreaches. It holds Children’s Day celebrations for children from orphanage homes and schools — in 2024 under the theme “Made For More”, with 12 homes invited — and runs the SOVCI Streets to School project, which helps out-of-school children enrol and keeps pupils from poor homes in school. SOVCI also speaks up for orphans, including on World Orphans Day. Its founder and team lead is Euriel Momah.
Fact file
- Legal name
- Smiles for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Initiative (SOVCI)
- Registration
- Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Nigeria — No. 165554
- Based in
- 26A Oni Ajisafe Street, Agric, Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria
- Founder & Team Lead
- Euriel Momah
- Programmes
- Outreaches to orphanage homes; Children’s Day celebrations; SOVCI Streets to School; World Orphans Day advocacy
- Official channels
- Instagram @smiles4orphans (opens in a new tab) · Facebook (opens in a new tab) · smilesfororphans.org
- Press contact
- smilesfororphans@gmail.com
Logo
These are the largest versions currently available (174 px). For print, please ask SOVCI for the original logo file.
Photos
Photos for press use, with credits. In line with SOVCI’s practice, none show children. Photos credited “SOVCI” belong to the organisation; the others are illustrative Creative Commons photos and must be credited as shown.
SOVCI in the news
- PUNCH Healthwise NGO raises the alarm over number of orphaned children (opens in a new tab)
- PM News World Orphans Day appeal and the “Sing for Hope” concert (descriptive title) (opens in a new tab)
- BusinessDay Empowering vulnerable children for brighter future (opens in a new tab)
- PM News NGO kits up indigent school pupils to mark International Day of Education (opens in a new tab)
- BusinessDay We don’t want our future truncated, children tells new administration in Nigeria (opens in a new tab)
- PM News Children’s Day: “the right environment” for every child (descriptive title) (opens in a new tab)
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