IJAW SOLIDARITY, POWER, LIBERTY, PEACE AND PROGRESS 

IZON EBE SERI KENI WENIMO

February 14, 2009

Name of Account: IJAW FOUNDATION/ORONTO DOUGLAS FUND

Swift Code: CITI US 33

Routing Number: 021000089

Account Number: 9937505754

Branch Number: 142

Branch Address: 702 UTICA AVENUE, BROOKLYN , NY 11203 , USA

To date, the sum of three thousand one hundred and sixty six dollars ($3266.00) has been donated into the Oronto Douglas Fund from the following donors:

Joseph Maclayton                               $500.00

Youpele Banigo                                  $500.00

Amagbe Kentebe                                $200.00

Tonye Princewill                                 $1000.00 (N150,000.00)

Ebipamone N. Nanakumo                   $100.00

Ibim Semenitari                                   $666.00 (N100,000.00)

Ariaye Icho                                         $100.00

David Iyegha                                      $100.00  

Buttler Amadu                                    $100.00  ( added 02/27/2009)

Very importantly, we wish to clarify that brother Oronto Douglas is not asking us for financial assistance to defray the cost of his medical care. Furthermore, we expect the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Bayelsa State Government to take up the full responsibility for paying all the costs of brother Oronto Douglas' medical care. The Oronto Douglas Fund is therefore simply our means of expressing our love and concern for the health and welfare of our dear brother, who has been a foremost environmentalist and champion of our Ijaw/Niger Delta Struggle! Understandably, the Oronto Douglas Fund will provide our dear brother with emergency funding whenever the need arises during the course of his medical care in the United States.

We thank all of us for the overflow of love for our dear brother in need. We are indeed our brothers' keepers! No amount is too small. Please donate cheerfully for the LORD loves a cheerful giver!

We pray God's rich blessings upon each of us as we donate with brotherly love, in the spirit of generosity.

Dr. Ebipamone N. Nanakumo
President, Ijaw Foundation Board of Directors

549 LEFFERTS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11225, USA* Phone & Fax: (718) 778-0536*

Website: www.ijawfoundation.org, Email: board_of_directors@ijawfoundation.org.

Ijaw Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization with Section 501 (c) (3) Tax Exempt Status granted by the United States Internal Revenue Service.

CALL FOR GENEROUS DONATIONS

Millions and billions of dollars are needed to provide humanitarian and social assistance to the Ijaws to alleviate their abject poverty, provide them basic social amenities, clean up their severely destroyed habitat and regenerate and restore the productivity of their farmlands and fisheries to provide them sustenance. All the needed funds cannot be realized in one fell swoop and all the humanitarian projects cannot be executed immediately. However, since a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, the hopes of the utterly impoverished Ijaws can be fulfilled incrementally in geometric progression through committed continuous donation of funds, sincerity of purpose and concerted action by all Ijaws, governmental and non-governmental agencies, international agencies and philanthropists worldwide.

Accordingly, Ijaw Foundation hereby makes a clarion call and a fervent appeal to all Ijaws, philanthropists, governmental and non-governmental agencies, international agencies and the general public to give generous donations to fund its charitable projects to alleviate the abject poverty and desperate humanitarian needs of the oil-rich Ijaws of the Niger Delta.

Kindly make your generous donations by means of secure PayPal Electronic Payment mechanism or forward your check or money order, made payable to Ijaw Foundation, to:

Ijaw Foundation

Ijaw Foundation needs and requests your generous funding for the following projects:

• Supply of educational equipment, books and computers to schools in Ijawland.

• Supply of medical equipment, medicine and other healthcare supplies to hospitals and clinics in Ijawland.

• Medical Missions to provide primary healthcare services such as antenatal care for pregnant women, children immunization program and first aid treatment as well as the prevention and/or treatment of malaria, diarrhea and dysenteric diseases, diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy, tetanus, sickle cell disease, cancer and HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, medical missions will provide elective surgical relief for hernias, breast lumps, lipomas, cataracts, ulcers, wounds and bone fractures.

• Humanitarian Aid: Provision of food, drinkable water, clothing and emergency shelter for persons and communities afflicted by natural disasters, oil spillages and wars

• Niger Delta Habitat Protection and Restoration Project: A Niger Delta Survival Fund will provide funding for projects for the protection, environmental cleanup and restoration of the Niger Delta ecosystem.

• Documentary Project: Audiovisual documentaries to highlight the sufferings and needs of the Ijaws and proffer solutions as well as mobilize our people and international support to actualize the Ijaw Aspiration.

• Ijaw Agenda for Self Government:  It cannot be over-emphasized that the only just and effective solution to the Niger Delta Crisis is the granting of political autonomy to the Niger Delta people to enable them have control and responsibility for the exploitation of their natural resources, including oil and gas, as well as the protection of the Niger Delta habitat on which they depend for their survival. Ijaw Foundation is championing the noble and peaceful Ijaw Agenda for Self Government. We request your support.