Pillar 04 · Member Services · In design · December 2026
Holiday Cheer Drive .
December packages for elders, widows, and orphanages. Wrappers, foodstuff, and a Christmas envelope from the diaspora.
§ 01 · The Drive
Why holiday cheer drive?
The Holiday Cheer Drive is the smallest in dollar terms and the most personal. December packages for the elders who raised the diaspora, the widows whose husbands' funerals the Bereavement Fund covered, and the orphanages quietly run by parishes across Warri and Sapele.
Every Region is invited to adopt a list of households. The packages are uniform — a wrapper, a tin of milk, a tin of sardines, dry goods, and a small Christmas envelope — so no household receives less than another.
The numbers that make this drive matter
- December isolation is real. Elders and widows whose family is in the diaspora often spend the season alone.
- A consistent annual gesture — the same package, the same week — builds a relationship Iwere Land remembers across decades.
- Parish networks already do this work informally; we resource it and report it.
§ 02 · What goes in
The manifest.
George wrapper (women)
Quality damask · 6 yards · for elders + widows
Dry goods bundle
Rice, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste
Tinned protein
Sardines, corned beef, milk
Toiletries
Soap, body cream, toothpaste
Christmas envelope
Cash gift · ₦5,000 baseline
§ 03 · The cycle calendar
When this drive runs.
CycleNotesStatus
Dec 2026First Congress-wide cycleplanning
§ 04 · Ways to help
Pick the way that fits.
Send something home.
$50 funds one household package Your contribution joins a published cycle with a published manifest.