Orphans Lifeline Program (OLP)
Formerly called ‘December to Remember’, it is Africa’s biggest orphanage outreach with a formidable team of 5,000 volunteers, reaching over 20,000 orphans spread across 19 countries. Since 2016, we have been mobilizing resources from kind-hearted donors, donating clothes, books, food & medical supplies, TOES Orphan Lifeline Program helps orphans across Africa access life’s most basic needs.
What inspired this movement?
In 2013, our founder, Olugbenga Ogunbowale visited an orphanage in South West Nigeria & met Ruth, a 10-year-old with battered shoes, a hunger-stricken frame and hair full of ringworm. Ruth shared tooth brush, barely took her bath with soap and hoped from day to day to not go hungry, alongside 50 orphans at the tiny Orphanage. Even though Olugbenga gave a little donation to the orphanage, He was moved by the plight of Ruth and her friends. 3 years later, that encounter inspired Olugbenga & 5 other friends to organize the first outreach in Nigeria, reaching nearly 300 orphans.