● 10 years of empathy · 2015 — 2025
Restoring dignity,
one woman and child
at a time.
Walk in My Shoes is a Nigerian non-profit keeping vulnerable children in school, settling hospital bills for women in crisis, and running food drives for families in need — because poverty does not travel alone.
● About WIMS
Rooted in empathy, since July 2015.
Walk in My Shoes (WIMS) is a non-profit organisation rooted in empathy, committed to uplifting the most vulnerable since July 2015. We began with a single, focused goal: keeping vulnerable children in school by providing them with essential educational supplies.
Over time, our work uncovered a deeper truth — that the barriers keeping children from thriving are often inseparable from the circumstances of the women raising them. Poverty does not travel alone; it moves across generations, sustained by the lack of opportunity available to women who are the backbone of their families and communities.
This understanding expanded our mandate to include medical interventions and food drives targeted at women, transforming WIMS into a holistic programme addressing the root causes of vulnerability, not just its symptoms.
● Our Mission
Rooted in empathy, we believe that uplifting the most vulnerable is how we build stronger generations.
● Our Vision
● What we do
Three programmes, one mission.
Our work addresses the root causes of vulnerability, not just its symptoms — across three connected programmes that reinforce each other.
Keeping children in school with educational supplies.
We provide primary and secondary school children from underserved communities with school supplies to ease their learning journey and make it easy for them to stay in school.
Providing medical support for vulnerable women.
With Nigeria accounting for the highest maternal fatalities in the world, we intervene by helping women settle hospital bills.
Organising food drives for women and families in need.
We believe no one should go to bed hungry. Our ongoing LAWMA Women Food Drive has reached 60 female workers and counting.
● Our impact
Ten years of quiet, persistent work.
We don’t measure ourselves in viral moments — we measure ourselves in children kept in school and women sent home healed.
We don’t measure ourselves in viral moments — we measure ourselves in children kept in school and women sent home healed.
● Milestones
A decade of showing up.
From a single classroom in Ijora Oloye to medical interventions at the Island Maternity Hospital — every milestone is a name, a face, and a future protected.
WIMS kicks off — 30 school bags distributed at Ijora Oloye Nursery & Primary School.
Back-to-School outreach — 300 pupils receive school bags, socks and stationery.
Christmas party for 300 children and 100 parents, with UNILAG Chem. Eng. Alumni 2010.
Childrens Day celebration for 100 vulnerable children living under the Eko Bridge.
LAWMA Women Food Drive launched — 60 female workers reached to date.
Women Medical Aid begins — N3.6M in hospital bills settled at Island Maternity Hospital.
● Blog
Read more about our blog posts.
● From the field
Moments that made it real.
Outreaches, hospital visits, and food drives across Lagos — a small archive of the people behind the work.
● What we stand for
Four values, held tight through ten years.
They are not posters on a wall. They are how we choose every partner, every programme, every naira spent.
We lead with compassion and understanding — meeting people where they are.
We are accountable to the communities we serve and the impact we create.
We equip individuals with the tools to build better futures.
We focus on long-term, meaningful change — not one-off gestures.
● Get involved
Walk with us.
Three ways to help us reach the next 970 women and children — through giving, partnership, or your time.
Pick a gift that goes straight to programme costs — we’re transparent about every naira and dollar received.
WIMS Charity Initiative
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WIMS Charity Initiative
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Corporates, foundations and faith communities — co-design an outreach in your name, with full impact reporting.
Join an outreach day, help organise a food drive, or lend your professional skills to our programmes.
● contact
Walk with us — say hello.
● Stay close
Short notes from the field: who we reached, what we learned, and where your support went. No spam, ever.
● Contact
Walk with us — say hello.
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