STORY ABOUT US

LAUNCH OUT NOW FOUNDATION (LONF)

Description of Foundation

About Us

Lunch Out Now Foundation: is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that will serve as a training, incubation and service centre in gardening and agriculture, skill aqucition for Retired Women and Youth in Nigeria. This will enhance improvement in their health, employment, income and livelihood. LONF will cater particularly to the health of retired women through counselling, monitoring, empowering, education, gardening, craft and other creativity that will grant stress relief.

The trainees are expected to use their hands, minds and energy to do what they love which is important in life, being creative makes people happy. Doing anything that brings joy, reduces stress and improves quality of life. God said, I will bless the work of your hands Deuteronomy 28:12, 15:10


Vision


To enhance good health and wellbeing of women and youth through gardening and home stead agriculture as a sustainable economic activity in Nigeria.

Motto


Power in Your Hand

Mission Statement

The foundation believes there is a better tomorrow after retirement. To continuously improve retired women’s health, by empowering them to attain and maintain garden for sustainable livelihood. Our team will also empower youth and effectively manage them to be self sufficient and have sustaining livelihood.

The Foundation will have a resource center for young and retired people with enabling environment for information on entrepreneurial skill, agribusiness, computer skill, product exhibition and networking for wider visibility. Also creating an enabling environment for the retired women gets busy and uses their hand to keep agile at retirement.

What We Offer

• Training/skill development in agricultural enterprises

• Facilitating Meetings, Training/workshops, programs and events

• Extension services and Personal development skills

• Extension services and Personal development skills

• Mentoring/ incubation and Research Development

• Sales Out lets for Seeds, Seedlings, inputs and farm/ garden Produces etc.

Support Skills

Other agricultural support skills for Youths at Launch Out center:

• Plumbing skill

• Electrician skill

• Bricklaying/Mansion skill

• Carpentry/wood work skill

Meet The Team

Dr Mercy Opeoluwa Adeogun (Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Specialist)
Founder

Office: Fisheries Technology Department, Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, V.I, Lagos

Phone: +234-8028413064

Dr. Oludare Adeogun (Agricultural Economist and Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation)
Co-Founder

Office: Fisheries Statistics Department Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, VI, Lagos.

Phone: +234-8036791543

Dr Kehinde Thomas (Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Specialist)
Co-Founder

Office: Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State

Phone: +234-8055951145