2021 Annual Report

BREATHE EASY FOUNDATION

ANNUAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2021

 

 TRUSTEES

 

Mrs Dorcas Akeju, OBE-Chair

Mr Claudius Akeju- Secretary

Mr Isaac Adewusi- Treasurer

Mrs Patricia Thomas-Public Relation & Communication Officer

Mrs Claire Casswell-Publicity/Fund Raising

Dr Joseph Garr

Mr Koleola Akeju

Mr Alfred Abbey

Patron ~ Dame Lorna Muirhead

 

Short Background: 

The Foundation has been involved in raising awareness of Asthma  since the time it was established in November 2014.  Annually it sends trustees to Nigeria to work with our partners in raising awareness and distributing inhalers, peak flows and nebulizers at two Teaching Hospitals, health centres , churches and to community groups. It has produced leaflets in English and Yoruba which is one of the main languages in Nigeria

 

Bank Details: Barclays Bank, Allerton Rd Branch, Liverpool L18

 Asthma remains a killer in the United Kingdom as well as in Nigeria especially during this Covid time when Asthmatic patients are more vulnerable. 

 

ACHIEVEMENTS:

This year has been a difficult and challenging year for the Foundation. A lot of Charities like ours have been affected by Covid-19.  restrictions. Meanwhile the trustees met quarterly to discuss activities of the organisation in persons before the Covid -19 and on Zoom as necessary.

 

Our AGM  which was one of our achievements  was held on Zoom on the 14^th of November 2020 with 30 people joining including partners and volunteers from Nigeria. The chair gave her report highlighting the challenges faced by the Foundation due to the Pandemic, and the treasurer gave the financial report highlighting the balance in the account.

Our speaker was Professor Gregory Erhabor and the title of his topic was “MANAGING ASTHMA IN AFRICA DURING THE COVID ERA” He spoke about the trigger of asthma, its prevention and treatment. He then related the issue of Asthma with Covid and the importance of educating the patients and the public in general.                                                                                                                 

 

Our trustees made the annual trip to Nigeria in July 2021 despite all the odds about the pandemic to raise awareness about Asthma and Allergies in partnership with our partners.  We also launched the registration of the Organisation as Non Governmental Organisation (NG0) in the name of OMOLARA   AKEJU ASTHMA FOUNDATION- see attached photo.

 

The trustees donated nebulizers, peak-flows and ventolins to the University College Hospital(UCH) Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo   University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH) Ile-Ife. Local Hospital and a Church Medical centre. The patients were so appreciative.

 

FUTURE PLAN:

We hope in 2022 we will be able to have some fund raising activities and  raise awareness of Asthma on the World  Asthma Day which is 2^nd of May with Fun walking and Running event. We will continue to support  chronic Asthmatic patients both in the United Kingdom and Nigeria

 

Our sincere thanks to our Patron -Dame Lorna Muirhead and her husband Dr Ronald Muirhead for their encouragements and financial support,  to all our donors,  Bridge Chapel Congregation, families, friends and above all the trustees for their hard work all year round. A big thanks to Euro Chemist for their continuous support and looking after the collection box,  also shops such as Dress Sense and New Image Hair Saloon (Kensington, Liverpool) which have been helping with our collection boxes. May God continue to bless you all. Above all we thank God Almighty for this work.

 

Dorcas Akeju, OBE