Nigeria — In a country where the difference between a thriving market stall and a shuttered one could often just be ₦50,000 and a little faith, one organisation has spent the last thirteen years quietly betting on the people traditional banks walk past. Last week, that bet took a new form: over 100 households in Gbagada, Ifako LGA, Lagos received food boxes, courtesy of a partnership between Victory Empowerment Centre (VEC) and the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, in what officials describe as a natural extension of the organisation’s core mission —not just lending money to the poor, but standing beside them.

The Corporate Social Responsibility outreach (Empower one – impact Many), held on 26th June 2026, saw VEC staff, volunteers and representatives of the Lagos Food Bank distribute packaged food items to families identified as most in need within Gbagada, Ifako LGA, Lagos — many of them, fittingly, drawn from

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