Lafiya’s current funding gap

By celinekamsteeg, Klau Chmielowska @ 2025-11-18T13:35 (+22)

Lafiya provides modern contraceptives to women who need it and want it, no matter where they live. Lafiya currently operates in four states in northern Nigeria, bringing high-quality family planning counselling and products to women in rural communities. We recruit existing community health workers, on government payroll, and give them specialised training in family planning and a small additional stipend. We launched in 2021 and were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2023. To date, we have reached 350,000+ women with contraceptive access. 49% of our users receive family planning services for the first time in their lives.

Lafiya has seen rapid growth in the last years, but millions of women in Nigeria remain without access to family planning services. The withdrawal of USAID and other bilateral donors has reduced the national budget for buying contraceptives, and community-based work that reaches counterfactual users beyond health care clinics (our speciality) is neglected. With or without bilateral funding, we are ready to do what we can to ensure women are not dying on our watch.

For 2026, we are facing a $950k funding gap on a $2.63M budget. Our current funding raised ($1.68M) will enable us to sustain operations in the four states where we are currently working. Closing our funding gap means that we get to: 

• Expand to two more states in Nigeria, enabling an additional 40,000 years of contraceptive coverage through 80 additional Lafiya Sisters
• Train more Lafiya Sisters in our existing states, ensuring an additional 2000+ communities get access to family planning
• Further expand our (operations + monitoring & evaluation) team to build the systems we need to maintain our fast-paced growth

Take a look at the CEA that Rethink Priorities made for our program here. Rethink Priorities models that our program may currently be around ~37x cash transfers. 

Logistics of donating

If you want to support Lafiya’s growth, your donation is very welcome here. If you are based in the US and thinking of making a larger donation, please contact us celine.kamsteeg@lafiyanigeria.org so we can route it through our fiscal sponsor and make it tax deductible for you. 

More information: www.lafiyanigeria.org

For a 2-minute summary of our work, watch this video on our work in Kano state, Nigeria!