Our mission
To demonstrate love proactively by meeting essential needs while equipping indigent women, children and families with skills and opportunities for better futures.
We help underserved women, children and families move from immediate need towards lasting opportunity through education, care and community empowerment.
In 2015, Tomi Otudeko, Foluso Gbadamosi and Eniola Harrison began pooling monthly donations to support women and children at Massey Street Children’s Hospital and the Shelter for Abused Women and Children.
What started without an office or formal structure grew through consistency. Monthly outreach led to scholarships, emergency relief, healthcare support and, eventually, a dedicated digital learning centre serving children in Somolu.
“There was only a commitment: to serve with love.”
To demonstrate love proactively by meeting essential needs while equipping indigent women, children and families with skills and opportunities for better futures.
A Nigeria where no woman or child is left behind and every underserved community can access education, sustenance, dignity and hope.
To remain community-led, accountable and consistent—responding to today’s needs while building pathways towards long-term independence.
Our values shape how we listen, partner, deliver and remain accountable to every community we enter.
We meet people with empathy, dignity and respect.
We show up repeatedly, not only when a need makes headlines.
We build with people, partners and volunteers—not around them.
We pursue practical solutions to difficult, systemic challenges.
Monthly support begins for women and children at SAWAC and Massey Street Children’s Hospital.
Flood relief reaches 150 families, while the Ogombo soup kitchen feeds more than 500 people.
SWL begins its flagship digital-skills programme in partnership with NIIT.
The purpose-built DLASP centre opens at Pedro Road in Somolu.
DLASP cohorts graduate, scholarships are awarded and the next decade’s expansion plan takes shape.
SWL is led by a Board of Trustees and Executive Council, supported by members, partners and volunteers.
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