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.
Why food drive?
The Food Drive is the oldest of our community drives. It started as Region-by-Region fundraisers — Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NY/NJ — pooling money for non-perishables and shipping containers home to Iwere Land. Convention 2026 ratifies it as a Congress-wide program with a single coordinated cycle each year and an emergency-response track for floods and fuel shocks.
Every cycle has a published manifest: how many bags of rice, how many liters of palm oil, what village received what, signed off by the Niger-Delta-side Region partner. No goods leave without a receiving signature.
The numbers that make this drive matter
- Diaspora wages travel further than diaspora dollars: $1 in Warri buys roughly 4× what it buys in Houston for staple food.
- The riverine communities — Ureju, Ogheye, Ogidigben, Ogbinbiri — are physically isolated when fuel prices spike or floods cut roads.
- A single 40-foot container can stock 200+ households for a month at a delivered cost of around $18,000.
The manifest.
When this drive runs.
Pick the way that fits.
Donate to the drive
$25 fills one household for a week
Take this pathSponsor a container
$18,000 stocks ~200 households for a month
Take this pathCoordinate locally
Run a collection at your Region
Take this pathVolunteer (logistics + manifest)
Help track containers from US port to Warri delivery
Take this pathSend something home.
$25 fills one household for a week Your contribution joins a published cycle with a published manifest.