Overview

In Cote d’Ivoire, SSC provides financial support to the Fondation Dr Javad Nurbakhsh. This support goes toward the development of its welfare and community services program for the most disadvantaged patients and families, including many children, as well as for the modernization of its medical equipment.

Follow this link for more information:  https://fdjn.ngo/

Featured Program: CSJN Social Program in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

Where: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

What we are doing: The Foundation has been working in Cote d'Ivoire since 2005 with the most vulnerable people in Abidjan. Our social service programs began in 2016, and cover several areas:

  • A full-service health clinic offering comprehensive medical care for the most disadvantaged families in its local community, including medical consultations, laboratory tests, medications, nursing care, X-rays, and dental care.

  • Monthly food kits for more than 85 families of economically and socially vulnerable clinic patients, thanks to local donors.

  • School supplies for more than 200 children at the start of each school year.

  • The annual Happiness Day celebration around Christmas, with gifts distributed to approximately 300 children.

  • Free medical consultations on specific topics, including pediatrics, breast and cervical cancer screening, cervical cancer vaccination, and prostate cancer screening.

  • Income-generating activities as a means of escaping poverty, thanks to international funding.

    How you can help: For more information, please contact abidjan@sufiservice.org

Featured Program: Helping the Toulepleu Local Orphanage

Where: Toulepleu, Cote d'Ivoire

What we are doing: The Committee of Service and Solidarity (CSS) of the dervishes of Cote d'Ivoire volunteers at the local orphanage, with 94 residents, in the heart of Toulepleu. Toulepleu is located 650 km from Abidjan, in the western region.

On Saturday, October 20, 2024, CSS donated 200,000 CFA francs (USD $318.00) in cash to the orphanage. Other donations included rice, foodstuff, clothing, diapers, sugar, flour, oil, confectionery, detergents, soap, new or secondhand clothes, sheets and shoes, children's books, board games, and many kisses.

This charity donation was received with great appreciation and joy. Several activities took place during this pleasant ceremony, including a reading session from the works offered and the reading of poems written by the orphans themselves. The director told moving stories about the orphanage and was thankful for the generous support of CSS.