HELP AFRICANS CHARITY NETWORK

A Non-Governmental Charity Organization

Help Africans Charity Network · Benin City

Let’s join hands to make Africa better.

We are a volunteer-run charity in Benin City. We take exercise books and school fees to pupils, food parcels to senior citizens and hygiene supplies to schools, and we hand every one over in person.

Pupils in blue-and-yellow uniforms holding HACN exercise books

Pupils receive HACN exercise books, 60 leaves each.

Who we are

Neighbours helping neighbours, in person

Help Africans Charity Network is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organisation, led by our CEO Owen Obakpolo and run from our office on Airport Road, Benin City. Our mission is empowering people and changing lives.

Our volunteers visit schools, communities and families across Edo State. We photograph every outreach day so you can see exactly where support goes.

Volunteer-run

Every carton, book and parcel is delivered by our own team.

Based in Benin City

21 Airport Road, Edo State, Nigeria. Supported by friends across the diaspora.

Open about our work

Photos and videos from each outreach day, and every gift shown on our live board.

What we do

Four kinds of outreach, all delivered by our volunteers.

Two smiling students in wheelchairs in their classroom

Programme

Assigned Guardian Angel

Closing the gap on disability health inequality. Our volunteers take hygiene supplies and food to schools for students with disabilities.

Schoolgirls holding up packs of sanitary pads with an HACN volunteer

Outreach

Sanitary pads for schoolgirls

Period care, delivered class by class. Volunteers hand a pack of sanitary pads to each girl in her classroom.

Pupils holding HACN exercise books

Cause

Education support

Exercise books, uniforms and school fees for pupils, plus scholarships that keep secondary-school students in class.

See the education causes

Senior citizens holding yellow food bags with HACN volunteers

Cause

Food for senior citizens

Rice, noodles and groceries packed into food parcels and handed to seniors in Benin City.

Give to Feed Senior Citizens

Media

Photos and videos from the field

Five HACN volunteers in black T-shirts beside cartons of noodles and bags of rice

Our work

Volunteers who show up in person

Our team delivers every carton and every exercise book by hand.

Volunteer

Join a book drive or a food distribution day in Benin City.

Get in touch

Sponsor a pupil

A monthly gift keeps one pupil in exercise books all year.

Give monthly

Support the work

Help us reach more pupils and families

Choose a cause to support. Our volunteers deliver every gift in person, and you can follow each one on our live board.

Recent gifts
  • Anonymous · Abuja gave ₦984,500 to Give Education 1 d ago
  • Akin · Lagos gave ₦400,500 to Feed Senior Citizens 1 d ago
  • David · Manchester gave ₦140,800 to Shape a Future 1 d ago
  • Matthew · Aba gave ₦16,000 to Shape a Future 1 d ago
  • Amanda · Texas gave ₦270,000 to Shape a Future 1 d ago
  • Ade · Lagos gave ₦278,990 to Give Education 1 d ago
  • Mark · Benin gave ₦11,991 to Give Education 1 d ago
  • Daniel K. · Uyo gave ₦138,000 to Give Education 1 d ago
  • Anonymous · New York gave ₦200,000 to Give Education 1 d ago

Become a monthly supporter.

Monthly gifts let us plan book drives and food parcels months ahead instead of week to week. Change or stop yours any time.

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