Julayo: Progress & Impact
Welcome to our updates page — your hub for Julayo’s latest campaigns, and progress on building healthier futures through our community clinic
Julayo’s First Clinic is coming!
The time has finally come! We are ever so close to opening our first primary care clinic in Akure, Nigeria. We have started hiring and we have such a stellar team so far. See our team page for our newest employees. Our 40-foot project c.u.r.e container filled with supplies is headed our way by boat. It left the port on 4/22/26 and we are hoping to see its arrival in Akure in early June, 2026. We are finally seeing the fruits of our labor of the last 4 years of work since Julayo incorporated.
Over the next few months we are hiring, training and getting everything in tip top shape. We hope to open sometime by August of 2026.
Planned opening August 2025
Building Healthcare Centers in Akure
During our 2024 trip to Akure, Nigeria, we visited several public clinics and found a sobering reality: the average clinic has just one blood pressure cuff for every 10,000 patients. Supplies and infrastructure are critically lacking, but together, we are working hard to change that. In early 2024, we were given the property/building shown here. With <$50,000 and a lot of determination over the past two years, we’ve achieved an incredible transformation: installed a sewage and full plumbing system, electrical, roofs and secure windows. We also built two additional structures and redesigned the layout for five consultation rooms.
We are so close to the finish line! To complete the clinic, we still need:
Generators
A water tank
Signs
A few more solar panels and electrical operating system
The remaining renovations are estimated to cost $9,000, and we’re hoping you can help us reach this goal. Every dollar goes a long way in Nigeria and will directly impact the health and well-being of this
community.
Julayo’s first primary care clinic will include:
Prenatal care, pediatrics (including well baby care), adult primary care and gynecology
Vaccination center
Focus on preventative medicine such as diabetes and cancer screenings along with health maintenance
Blood pressure management, diabetes treatment, nutrition and lifestyle medicine
Health education outreach program run by community health workers
A fully Nigerian staff, providing an opportunity for employment and community development.
Why fund our project?
Julayo is committed to improving the health of those most in need by developing health care centers in underserved areas that are staffed and run by local people. The goal is to reverse brain drain, improve the local economy and supply much needed health care. We do this by setting up a primary care clinic and then a medical training center followed by a hospital when the community has enough training and resources to proceed.
See the progress of our clinic building renovations
