About CLAPAI

Child Love and Protection Advocacy Initiative (CLAPAI) orphanage is a non-governmental organization which was started in 2006 by Kyenpiya Jessica Nyabam and Emmanuel Ajigasokoa Nyabam as an intervention tool, to care for initially, children orphaned by/or infected by HIV/AIDS. However, with the codification of the Child Rights Act, our scope was altered to accommodate the legal changes in the laws of the land, to just cater for orphans and vulnerable children regardless of their circumstances. Today, CLAPAI runs an orphan's living and learning center.
We have adopted the accelerated Christian Education system with a mix of the Nigerian curriculum as the ACE method allows us to teach children to read faster and better than our curriculum guarantees. Again we find that many children come from diverse situations, thus the need to learn at their individual pace. Our first set of children wrote JSCE exams in July 2013. We graduated our first set who mostly passed the SSCE exams in 2016 and have now graduated four sets so far.

To provide a physical and spiritual family as well as full educational support for children living with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS and vulnerable children in the society.

Family
We provide a strong family community that supports affected and infected as well as vulnerable children’s basic living, health and educational needs so they may have the tools and skills needed to break the cycle of poverty in which they are living.

Amenities
We provide food shelter, clothing and education, free and of no charge.

Quality of Life
CLAPAI seeks to give these children a semblance of the quality of life that their parents would have provided had they been alive. CLAPAI was borne out of a dire need to care for orphaned as well vulnerable children in society.

Care
To provide quality care and service to bring up these children to exercise their gifting in society.

Partnerships
Networking partnerships to support our fight against AIDS and the scourge of poverty.

We have two homes today one located in Dadin Kowa Jos behind the Sarkin Kangang’s Palaace where children from 0-13 years stay which caters for the primary schooling section of the orphanage. The second location is at CLAPAI Rehoboth center Zarazong village Jos East where we cater for children from age 11-18 years which host the secondary school arm of the center.

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Kyenpiya Jessica Nyabam

Founder & Executive Director

Kyenpiya founded CLAPAI alongside her husband Emmanuel. She is a mass communication graduate.

Emmanuel Ajigasokoa Nyabam

Co-founder

In addition to co-founding CLAPAI, Emmanuel is a lawyer, retired footballer, pastor and coach.

Dara P.D. Rwang

Chairman

Dara is a seasoned retired banker.

Hyacinth Naanmiap

Secretary

Hyacinth is a seasoned Accountant who has worked with various I.N.G.O. (International Non-Governmental Organizations) including CAFOD the Catholic intervention N.G.O.

Mildred Makan

Board Member

Mrs. Makan is a Director with the Plateau state own Radio Television station PRTVC.

Shadrach Nyabam

Board Member

Shadrach is a retired Administrator and missionary who has worked with several companies including Challenge Bookshop, NASCO, & Great Commission Movement International.

Barrister Daniel T. Gwaza

Board Member and Legal Advisor

Barrister Gwaza is the Legal advisor of the organization and is a Notary public and President of CLASFON (Christian Lawyers Fellowship Of Nigeria) Jos Branch and a member of the Advocates International.

Our Achievements & Partners

We are the First recipients of the prestigious NIJA Diamond Awards from Mo Abudu and Diamond Bank as part of Nigeria’s Fiftieth independence celebration in 2010. We also are the first recipients of the TUFACE Peace Award 2013 for work done with children in crisis prone areas through sports.

We are looking to partner with organizations to source for educational materials for the children at CLAPAI orphanage as well as the nutritional and psycho-social needs of these children. We have in our care 300 children cared for within two homes one in Dadin Kowa Jos and the other at Zarazon Jos East.

We also support the educational, health and nutritional needs of 2000 children within three communities on the Plateau in Partnership with Institute for Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN). We will be happy to host you in Jos if you can take time out to come see what we are doing with these children.

We also offer free medical care and support for displaced children, orphans and vulnerable children as well as street children on the Plateau with our medical care partner Oasis Medical Center giving us support.

Today we have 381 plus children living and under the care of our organization. Our outreach has a care support base for over 7,000 children with our recent partnership with Media Campaign Against Human Trafficking (MeCAHT).

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Committed to providing a physical and spiritual family as well as full educational support for children living with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS and vulnerable children in the society.

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Committed to providing a physical and spiritual family as well as full educational support for children living with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS and vulnerable children in the society.

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Our Vision

Pillars of Our Mission