Women in Business: Faith Adole

Faith is the Founder/CEO of U-VOL Foundation, Inc. The Foundation is comprised of teams, including highly skilled and board-certified medical providers and nurses, as well as, public health practitioners, administration support professionals, outreach coordinators and more.

Faith is an experienced Nurse Practitioner, she is currently pursuing her Doctoral studies and an MBA degree at The Johns Hopkins University.

She is an experienced healthcare leader that is passionate about inspiring nurses and midwives to lead in global health settings, and is committed to healthcare advocacy, and bridging the gap for existing healthcare and wellness needs for the less privileged communities throughout the world.

Here in Nigeria, we’re all familiar with nurses being undervalued and overlooked. This rarely occurs in the western world as it’s not uncommon for a nurse to earn about ₦960,000 annually ( or less) in Nigeria but abroad it can be as high as ₦16 million annually.

For Faith, there is no reason why same shouldn’t be happening in Nigeria as she is showing just how impactful nurses can be.

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With her foundation, UVOL, Faith, alongside medical and non-medical volunteers have embarked on two successful missions, in Otukpo-icho village in Benue state and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Missions like these are made possible thanks to Faith’s years of experience.

In Otukpo-icho for example, UVOL was able to medically assess and treat 1000 people for FREE. Equally impactful, the mission to Johannesburg focused on supporting the Fridah Hartley women and children’s center with essentials. Together they have been able to empower over 1000 homeless women and children.

The next mission, planned for later in 2021, is going to be the biggest one yet. Faith will be returning with UVOL to the village of Obi in Benue State to take on some of the lasting consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The people within the villages of the Obi community in Benue State currently have no access to clean drinking water and are in desperate need of it. Their current water source lies in natural streams and is unsafe for drinking as it has been polluted with waterborne illnesses from insects, as well as from human and animal waste.

This community has been extremely hard hit and recently faced a deadly contamination of their Oye-Obi stream in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, which resulted in causing life threatening disease for over 100 people from the villages and claimed the lives of over 15 people.

UVOL will be providing everything from Women’s GYN exams, to general survey, completely free. Faith is showing how with a little initiative and support from friends and family, anyone can make a difference in vulnerable communities.