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05/07/2026

In Nigeria, over 20 million school aged children are out of school🏫, the 3rd highest absentee rate in the world behind only Pakistan and India. HEAL motivates good school attendance by providing students at least one daily nutritious meal🍎. In this video, learn how HEAL is empowers children to stay in school by addressing their basic needs!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/05/06/help-provide-students-one-daily-nutritious-meal/



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HEAL stops absenteeism among our students.

04/30/2026

Good things come to those who wait. Fr. Leo Okonkwo waited over 25 years to finally be ordained a priest🙏 for the Bauchi diocese in Nigeria. While waiting, he watched many of his peers from seminary become priests before him. But, God taught him something. In this video, Fr. Leo explains how his long journey🛣️ to the priesthood was a blessing in disguise!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/04/29/fr-leo-kept-seeking-god-thru-his-period-of-waiting/

Priesthood is a gift from God on His terms.

04/23/2026

In Nigeria, education👨‍🎓 is a luxury rather than a right. As a child, Fr. Leo Okonkwo, HEAL Founder, was forced to leave school and work as a house servant for a wealthy chief to support his family. In this video, discover how Fr. Leo's childhood education📚 was restored and how he dedicated himself to providing quality Catholic🙏 education for poor youth!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/04/22/good-samaritan-restored-fr-leos-delayed-primary-education/

Help HEAL give poor children a bright future!

04/14/2026

Less fortunate children do not want to be given a fish🐟 but to learn to fish that they may grow from reliance on others to being reliable for others. In this video, Fr. Leo Okonkwo describes HEAL's plan of forming children into Servant Leaders through agricultural🍎 projects while inviting disciples of Christ to become part of this mission of hope for the hopeless!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/04/14/students-are-learning-agriculture-for-independence/



Michael Mecogee Enwere Heal Media Africa Okechukwu Okonkwo Nicola M. Costello

04/10/2026

Poor rural village children need more than teachers, textbooks📚, and chalkboards to learn. Unless a child's basic nutritional needs are met met, he or she will have a difficult time learning. In this newsletter, discover how HEAL provides for the daily nutrition🍎 of the 200 students in our two schools and how you can help our mission become food independent!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/04/10/heal-continues-quest-for-food-independence/



Nicola M. Costello Michael Mecogee Enwere Okechukwu Okonkwo Media Africa

A child learns only when his or her nutritional needs are met.

04/03/2026

Okechukwu Okonkwo Heal Media Africa Michael Mecogee Enwere

04/02/2026

Heal Media Africa Michael Mecogee Enwere Okechukwu Okonkwo

03/28/2026

HEAL expo table at the DuBuque Catholic Men's Conference at St. Plus X Parish in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Today we will reach out to men seeking to grow in their faith about the mission of HEAL of forming Servant Leaders thru the Self-Emptying Spirit of Christ! Heal Media Africa Okechukwu Okonkwo Michael Mecogee Enwere

03/20/2026

Fr. Leo Okonkwo, HEAL Founder, has been ordained a priest🙏 of the Bauchi Diocese in northern Nigeria. Thankfully, the Bishop of Bauchi, Most Rev. Hilary N. Dachelem, CMF, respects Fr. Leo's missionary reponsibilities in Imo State, in the southeast, where HEAL operates two K-12 schools📚for 200 poor village children. In this video, learn about HEAL's new partnership with Bauchi Diocese and how it will be a blessing for our mission going forward!

https://bit.ly/4biZHeE



Michael Mecogee Enwere Heal Media Africa Okechukwu Okonkwo Nicola M. Costello

Fr. Leo introduces Nick to the Bishop of Bauchi.

03/13/2026

HEAL Founder, Fr. Leo Okonkwo, kicked off the new year by offering holy Mass⛪for the first time in his home village! He compared the event to the homecoming and reunion of Joseph with his brothers (Gen 45:1-15)✝️. In this newsletter, read about how Fr. Leo's covenant with God when he was a young boy was fulfilled.

https://bit.ly/411sXAx



Nicola M. Costello Michael Mecogee Enwere Okechukwu Okonkwo Heal Media Africa

Bishop of Bauchi attends and praises HEAL mission.

02/20/2026

After a long journey, Fr. Leo Okonkwo was ordained to the holy priesthood✝️ on November 5th, 2025 for the Diocese of Bauchi in Northern Nigeria! HEAL is happy to partner with a new diocese and its Bishop🙏, Most Rev. Hilary Nanman Dachelem, CMF. In this newsletter, read about what it means for HEAL to be linked with a Shepherd of the Church⛪!

https://healnigeria.org/2026/02/19/finally-deacon-leo-is-now-father-leo

Nicola M. Costello Michael Mecogee Enwere Okechukwu Okonkwo Heal Media Africa

HEAL mission expands to northern Nigeria.