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MedWHOLE Alliance for Health and Development is a Nigerian non-profit working to restore people and communities through free education, free healthcare and skills training. Our work began in 2021 in Gosa, on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Road in Kyami District, AMAC, FCT Abuja.
Three pillars, pursued together
Health, literacy and empowerment are not separate problems, so we do not treat them separately. A child who cannot see the board does not need a better teacher. A mother who cannot read a prescription has not really been treated.
- 700+
- children in free summer school program this August
- 506
- people seen at one outreach in a community with no clinic
- 16
- young adults completed skills training
- 5
- years working in Gosa
Featured Work
MedWHOLE Academy
Whole child. Whole family. Whole community.
The Academy is our largest and longest-running work. It provides free education for children and teenagers in Gosa and Kunyami: holiday lessons every August, a capacity building club that meets weekly through the year, scholarships for out of school children, and coaching for the exams that decide what comes next.
It began in 2021 with twenty-one children. This August it taught more than seven hundred across two communities.
- 450
- children at Summer School Gosa, August 2026
- 280
- a day at Kunyami, in its first year
- 200
- at the weekly club
- 50+
- children returned to school since 2021
Pillars in Action
Our other work
Alongside the Academy, we run free medical outreaches in communities without health facilities, and we train young adults who have volunteered with us. The two connect. The volunteers who staffed our February outreach in Kunyami became the first cohort of our skills programme, and twelve of them completed it in June.
Health
Health
medical outreaches, school health screening, nutrition, and follow-up care after referral
Empowerment
Empowerment
skills training, mentorship, and a community innovation challenge with grant funding
Where we work
Where our work began: Gosa, Kunyami and Toge, in Kyami District, AMAC, FCT Abuja.
A Story from this Year
Seven referrals, seven recoveries
At a free outreach in Kunyami in February, seven people were found to need surgery. Each was referred to Gibonna Women's Hospital in Garki, where all seven operations were carried out. All seven recovered without complications.
Identifying a case takes a morning. Following it through to recovery takes months, and it is the part that decides whether an outreach mattered.
Three pillars, pursued together
The Made Whole Journey
Health, literacy and empowerment are not separate problems, so we do not treat them separately. A child who cannot see the board does not need a better teacher. A mother who cannot read a prescription has not really been treated. We call our method the Made Whole Journey. Every programme is built to move through four phases — engaged, equipped, deployed, supported — and we judge each one by how far it actually gets.
01
Engaged
We establish presence and meet a real need, free and open to everyone.
02
Equipped
We build skill and character in the same room, over months rather than in a single workshop.
03
Deployed
People put what they have gained to work in their own community, with us alongside them.
04
Supported
We stay after the training ends. Grants, mentoring, follow-up, and the next cycle.
Get Involved
Three ways to take part
Field Notes & Moments
Life along the Airport Road corridor
