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§ INC-USA · Cross-Pillar Programs

We send things home — together.

Community Drives are how the diaspora puts physical goods and targeted dollars in front of the people who need them in Iwere Land. Food when the river is high. School kits when September comes. Nets for the fishermen on the Forcados. Every drive runs on a published cycle, with a published manifest, signed for on the receiving end.

Pillar ReachCross-pillarHealth · Education · Empowerment · Member Services
Coverage AreaIwere LandWarri · Sapele · Koko · riverine villages
Diaspora Network8 RegionsRegion committees coordinate U.S.-side packing
Field PartnersNiger-Delta-sideRegion partners · parish networks · village heads
§ 01 · The Drives

Five drives. Each one targeted, dated, and reported.

Click any drive to see its manifest, cycle calendar, and the ways you can help.

Pillar 01 · Healthcare + Pillar 04 · Member ServicesActive · ongoing

Food Drive

Rice, garri, beans, palm oil, dried fish, infant formula. Staples that fill the kitchen when the river is high or the harvest is short.

CadenceAnnual · plus emergency response
CoverageWarri · Sapele · Koko · riverine villages on the Forcados
Read the drive
Pillar 02 · EducationIn design · first cycle Aug 2026

Back-to-School Drive

Notebooks, pens, school uniforms, sandals, backpacks, calculators. The basic kit a child needs to walk into school on the first day with everyone else.

CadenceAnnual · timed to Nigerian school resumption (Sept term)
CoveragePrimary + JSS schools across Warri South + Warri North LGAs
Read the drive
Pillar 03 · Economic EmpowermentIn design · piloting Ogheye + Ogidigben 2026

Fishing Net Drive

Fishing nets, gear, outboard parts, refrigeration ice, and fuel-cost subsidy for the riverine villages whose livelihood is the river itself.

CadenceTwice annual · before low-water + high-water seasons
CoverageRiverine fishing villages — Ogheye, Ogidigben, Ureju, Ogbinbiri, Ofuoma
Read the drive
Pillar 04 · Member ServicesIn design · December 2026

Holiday Cheer Drive

December packages for elders, widows, and orphanages. Wrappers, foodstuff, and a Christmas envelope from the diaspora.

CadenceAnnual · December
CoverageElder care homes, widows' households, orphanages in Warri + Sapele
Read the drive
Pillar 04 · Member Services + Article 13 StewardshipStandby · activated by Patrons Council

Emergency Relief Drive

The drive that doesn't have a calendar. When the Forcados floods or fuel shocks displace a community, the Patrons Council activates and every Region pivots to relief.

CadenceOn-demand · activated by Patrons Council vote
CoverageWherever the disaster lands — flood, fuel shock, displacement, public-health emergency
Read the drive
§ 02 · How a drive runs

Four steps. Diaspora to dock to delivery.

Every drive follows the same operating pattern, ratified at Convention 2026.

Step 01 · Announce

Drive opens with a published cycle.

Pillar 03 + Region committees publish the drive cycle — open date, close date, target households or schools or villages, and the dollar / in-kind ask. Posted on this page and to every Region channel.

Step 02 · Collect

Regions pack U.S.-side.

Each Region runs a packing event or a fundraising push. Goods consolidate at a designated port (Houston for Texas Regions, NY/NJ for the Northeast). Cash flows through the standard donation channel under a fund tag.

Step 03 · Ship + Receive

Container moves · Niger-Delta-side signs.

Shipment manifest is published before the container leaves port. Niger-Delta-side Region partners (or village heads, or school principals, depending on drive) sign for the goods on receipt.

Step 04 · Distribute + Report

Goods placed · the receipts come back.

Distribution event happens with photos and household/school/village tally. Within 14 days a public report posts to /about-us/financials showing dollars in, goods out, who received what.

§ Article 13 · Stewardship Floor

Every drive dollar is bound by the same 85¢ floor as our other programs.

The Constitution ratified at Convention 2026 binds INC-USA to a minimum 85% program-spend ratio across all programs, including drives. Emergency Relief drives carry a tighter 95¢/$1 floor — disaster dollars don’t pay for office staplers.

Per-drive cycle reports publish to the Financials page inside 14 days of distribution, and roll into the annual Form 990 disclosure.

Pick a drive. Pick a number. Send it home.

$25 fills a household for a week. $35 puts one child in school. $65 puts a fisherman back on the water. $50 makes December a little less lonely for an elder. Pick the one that fits.