Changing Lives
One at a Time
One at a Time
LOVATT FOUNDATION .ORG
LovattFoundation.Org, led by Fiona Lovatt, is an international collaboration among ordinary people who want to make a difference – with love and without receiving payment for their time or effort.
Through Fiona, a New Zealand educator and poet, the foundation delivers small-scale projects that aim to change lives, one at a time. She began the foundation from a simple Northern Nigerian base in Kano, a 1000 year old city. For the five years she lived in a co-operative with young almajirai (students) responding to the needs of those who live on $1 per day (or less).
Fiona’s personal possessions fit into one suitcase. Without an office or vehicle the circle of friends who join in from afar are assured that every dollar they contribute serves the intended purpose. Trees, literacy, boreholes, displaced people, vulnerable children, widows, patients,… Fiona has served communities across a decade and five states in Nigeria.
More here: http://wellywoodwoman.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/kano-life.html
Way to Donate
You can give to key projects today by using the project name as identifier. If none is mentioned we will allocate your gift to where need is the greatest.
Learn more about where the funds have been spent and how far each month’s donations go on our Fundraiser Page
Just some of our Supporters
that have contributed to
Ongoing: Support Orphans (food, clothes, school fees)
Malaria treatments
Assisting IDPs
Small student grants
Shoes, socks & blankets
Medical devices (e.g. crutches)
Rainy season roof repairs for widows
ICT scholarships
Ongoing: Repair boreholes
Purchase books
Fund surgeries
Fund & mentor community teachers
Help host families that raise orphans
ICT data bundles
Workshops: nutrition, sanitation, first aid
Professional development: Teachers
Ongoing: Plant trees & create an edible forest
Disaster & emergency help
Ongoing: Create micro businesses
Small scholarships
Urgent repairs
Welfare packages for multiple births
Centres for accelerated literacy
Stationary, art & school supplies
ABOUT
and founder Fiona Lovatt
Activism is my
rent for living on
the planet.
alice walker
Activism is my
rent for living on
the planet.
alice walker
A suitcase, an internet connection, and correspondence with fantastic friends around the world are all that I travel with.
I’m Fiona Lovatt. I am a New Zealand poet and teacher who has been based in northern Nigeria since 2011.
Lovatt Foundation .Org became the umbrella for a group of small-scale Nigerian community projects, an online base for our current supporters around the world and those who would like to get involved to get updates on projects, collaborate, seek advice for their own projects, or donate to ours.
How it began
A timid traveller and humanitarian, I initially picked a destination that had to be in the English-speaking world, in need of an experienced educator or even a pair of hands and, most of all, to be behind the media headlines of crisis and carnage because I, like so many others, wondered, “What can I do?”.
Kano became my home away from New Zealand. As I made use of the page on Facebook to share the stories and realities of life among the talakawa (the masses) in northern Nigeria friends were moved by the scenarios. They joined me in their own quiet ways, delighted that funds and ideas could go so far and that 100% of what is received is used for the purpose named by the donor. Our engagement has spread across Kano, Jigawa, Niger and Borno states with much of our work currently centred in Maiduguri where the greatest impact of Boko Haram has been felt.
PHONE
Please email Fiona to arrange a call due to intermittent signal and service.