Former Big Brother Naija housemate Faith Adewale has formally teamed up with the Lagos Food Bank Initiative (LFBI) for a targeted feeding outreach in the city.
The collaboration is part of LFBI’s Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Programme (TEFAP), designed to quickly move food to households suffering from the rising cost of living.
LFBI confirmed Faith will be present at the warehouse-led distribution, helping to sort and hand out packages salvaged through the charity’s agricovery efforts.
Organisers say the involvement of a public figure like Faith is aimed at increasing visibility for the campaign and encouraging broader community support.
The event is being billed not as a one-off photo opportunity but as a coordinated activity within LFBI’s ongoing food-rescue and redistribution work, with concrete targets for the day’s deliveries to specified vulnerable groups.
Programme mechanics: agricovery, partners and beneficiaries
At the heart of the operation is LFBI’s #AgricoveryProgram, which recovers surplus fresh produce from farms and markets, grades it at the warehouse and redistributes it to households, elderly residents and people with disabilities.
The charity says this reduces food waste while meeting urgent nutritional needs in informal settlements.
For the current outreach, LFBI is working with five partner NGOs, JKO Heart Foundation, McDera Food Bank, The Glow Foundation, Faith Moves Foundation and I Care For All Foundation, to reach more communities and ensure last-mile delivery.
Each partner has a defined catchment area and beneficiary list to avoid duplication and ensure accountability.
LFBI spokespeople emphasised monitoring and record-keeping: recipients are registered, food items logged, and follow-up checks planned so the intervention can be evaluated and scaled where it proves most effective.
Faith’s role: from volunteer to strategic collaborator
Faith’s participation goes beyond turning up for the distribution. LFBI says he has pledged to work with its network on at least one more feeding drive and will lend his platform to awareness and fundraising efforts coordinated by Faith Moves Foundation.
The former contestant has previously volunteered with LFBI’s #NUMEPlan, which focuses on treating and feeding malnourished children. He told organisers the hands-on work convinced him to deepen the relationship and support ongoing interventions.
Beneficiaries and field volunteers noted that celebrity involvement accelerated logistics on the day, more volunteers, smoother crowd management and quicker distribution.
Yet, LFBI stressed that operational success rested on pre-existing systems and the partner NGOs on the ground.
