HoPe-CaRe Intervention report (October, 2025)

Published on Oct 20, 2025

HoPe-CaRe (Homeless Persons Care and Rehabilitation) Intervention report.

Mr "T" had been a homeless mentally ill person in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He slept rough in the streets, occasionally getting help from people in neighbourhoods frequented by him.

In March 2023, he was assessed with the support of community members and offered treatment by our team. He accepted the intervention (including medication) and was followed up by us. A community member offered to supervise his care and saw to his regular feeding with a fund deposit by our organisation.

Within 4 weeks of the intervention, he improved significantly, and a good samaritan offered him accommodation.

He left the community unannounced thereafter, only to return late 2024 in a relapse of the mental disorder, and very uncooperative. About mid 2025, he became so threatening that the community members decided to evict him forcefully.

Following our organization's intervention, he was voluntarily admitted to a private specialist hospital in Abeokuta, in view of the then ongoing industrial action at the federal hospital used in our previous interventions, with 50% fees discount covered by our organisation. The hospital successfully linked up with the sister (living in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria - about 260 Kilometers away) through information supplied by him, and obtained additional history when the sister visited him on the ward.

Mr "T" was hospitalized for about 2 months and was discharged to the sister in a settled mental state in October 2025. The community rehabilitation plan is for him to live in a rented accommodation in Ilorin, (close to his sister) and to continue his follow-up care as an outpatient in the University teaching hospital in Ilorin.

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