Hardship relief
Hardship grants and essential support — food, clothing, household items, and practical advice for people who cannot meet basic living costs.
Public benefit in action
Our Projects
Practical support that advances our charitable purposes — carefully, transparently, and for the public benefit.
Orphanage care visits & child welfare support
We visit children’s homes and orphanages to offer practical help, companionship, and carefully planned support — with dignity, safeguarding, and the child’s best interests first.
What this project does
Many children in residential care face hardship, disrupted education, and limited access to everyday essentials. Chiugobest organises structured visits and support packages so children and the homes that care for them receive tangible help — not one-off publicity, but need-led assistance aligned with our charitable objects.
Our recent visits include support at the Widows, Orphans & Destitute Care Centre (WODECC / Mercy Home), where our team delivered food, household essentials, and spent time with the children in a supervised, respectful way.
- Practical relief: food parcels (including staples such as rice), snacks and drinks, clothing, hygiene items, bedding, and other essentials identified with care-home staff.
- Education support: learning materials, school supplies, books, and help removing barriers to learning where children are falling behind.
- Companionship with care: supervised group activities, encouragement, and positive adult presence — never alone with a child, always in line with our safeguarding policies.
- Health & wellbeing: where needed, help with health-related welfare costs and signposting to appropriate services (we do not provide clinical treatment ourselves).
- Partnership: we work with orphanage / home managers, and only proceed where there is evidence of need and clear agreement on how support will be used.
How we keep children safe
All visits follow our Child / Minor Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct for working with minors, and photo / social media rules. We do not publish identifying details of individual children. Volunteers and trustees involved in this work are expected to follow safer recruitment and supervision standards.
Public benefit
This work furthers the relief of those in need by reason of youth and financial hardship, the advancement of education, and the advancement of health-related welfare — for the public benefit, not for private connection to trustees.
Children & education — school fees and school items
We help children stay in school by paying school fees where families cannot, and by providing books, bags, uniforms, stationery, and other materials. Support is based on charitable need, not private connection to trustees.
Why this work matters
When a child is excluded from school because of unpaid fees, or arrives without a uniform, bag, or books, learning stops before it starts. Hardship, illness in the family, bereavement, and displacement all create barriers. Chiugobest advances education by removing those practical barriers so children in nurseries, pre-schools, and primary settings can attend, take part, and keep up with their peers.
We do not run schools ourselves. We fund and supply what children and families in charitable need actually require, working with parents or carers, schools, and care homes (including orphanages) so help is used for education.
What we provide
- School fees: grants towards term fees, enrolment costs, and examination fees where a child would otherwise be sent home or unable to register. Payments are made to the school or on production of a genuine bill wherever possible — not as unrestricted cash to a connected person.
- Books and learning materials: textbooks, workbooks, reading books, and classroom materials matched to the child’s year group so they can follow lessons and complete homework.
- School bags: durable bags so children can carry books and supplies safely to and from school.
- Uniforms and shoes: school uniform, PE kit, and school shoes where dress codes would otherwise keep a child out of class or expose them to stigma.
- Stationery: pens, pencils, exercise books, rulers, and basic kits so children are not left without the tools to write and learn.
- Supplementary support: mentoring, extra learning help, and — where facilities are unsafe or dilapidated — contributions to school improvement so children can learn in a decent environment.
How we decide who we help
Trustees (or those they authorise) look at evidence of need: a school invoice or letter, confirmation that the child is of school age, and that the family or home cannot meet the cost without charitable help. We keep a simple record of what was given, to whom (or to which school), and why. Help is not limited to people known personally to the board.
Safeguarding
Education work involving children follows our Child / Minor Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, and photo / social media rules. We do not publish a child’s full name, school year, or identifying details with photographs. Where we work through a school or orphanage, we agree in writing how funds and items will be used.
Public benefit
This project furthers the advancement of education and the relief of those in need by reason of youth and financial hardship. Benefit is educational and practical — a child able to attend school with the fees paid and the items they need — not a private advantage to trustees or their families.
Healthcare support — hospital visits and medical costs
We do not provide clinical treatment ourselves. We help people who cannot afford care through hospital visits with essential items, grants for hospital bills and medical costs, and illness-related welfare support.
What this project does
When someone is in hospital without money for bills, medicines, or even basic supplies, hardship grows quickly. Chiugobest advances health-related welfare by helping people access care and by taking practical items to patients and families in need — with dignity, consent, and respect for clinical staff.
Our recent work includes a supervised visit to a postnatal ward, where volunteers delivered hygiene supplies, nappies, and other essentials to patients. That visit is welfare support, not medical treatment.
- Hospital visits: essential items such as hygiene supplies, nappies, tissue, and other practical goods identified with ward staff — never a substitute for nursing or doctor care.
- Hospital bills and medical costs: grants where people cannot afford necessary treatment overseas, including serious illness such as kidney disease, paid to the hospital or against a genuine bill wherever possible.
- UK illness-related welfare: practical help where NHS care exists but illness still creates hardship that benefits do not fully meet.
- Signposting: we point people towards appropriate health services; we do not diagnose, prescribe, or run clinics.
How we decide who we help
Trustees (or those they authorise) look at evidence of need: a hospital invoice or letter, confirmation of illness-related hardship, and that the person cannot meet the cost without charitable help. Help is not limited to people known personally to the board. We keep a simple record of what was given and why.
Dignity and photos
We visit wards only with permission. We do not publish patients’ names or medical details with photographs. Volunteers follow our safeguarding and photo rules.
Public benefit
This project furthers the advancement of health and the relief of those in need by reason of ill-health and financial hardship. Benefit is practical and health-related — not clinical treatment by Chiugobest, and not a private advantage to trustees or their families.
Other ways we help
Alongside orphanage care visits, education support, and healthcare visits, we also advance our objects through grants and practical help in these areas.
Skills & employability
Vocational training, adult education, and employability support that help people gain knowledge and sustainable ways to earn a living.
Clean water
Support for rural water supply projects in underdeveloped areas, helping communities reduce hardship and water-related sickness.
Emergency relief
Humanitarian aid and practical assistance for people affected by war, natural disaster, conflict, or other emergency.
Community development
Volunteering, local groups, and practical projects that help communities recover, take part in community life, and support one another.