Food Drive .
Rice, garri, beans, palm oil, dried fish, infant formula. Staples that fill the kitchen when the river is high or the harvest is short.
Your gift goes to INC-USA (501(c)(3), EIN 33-3023590) for this drive, with a tax receipt by email.
Why food drive?
The Food Drive is the oldest of our community drives. It started as Region-by-Region fundraisers — Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NY/NJ — pooling money for non-perishables and shipping containers home to Iwere Land. Convention 2026 ratifies it as a Congress-wide program with a single coordinated cycle each year and an emergency-response track for floods and fuel shocks.
Every cycle has a published manifest: how many bags of rice, how many liters of palm oil, what village received what, signed off by the Niger-Delta-side Region partner. No goods leave without a receiving signature.
The numbers that make this drive matter
- Diaspora wages travel further than diaspora dollars: $1 in Warri buys roughly 4× what it buys in Houston for staple food.
- The riverine communities — Ureju, Ogheye, Ogidigben, Ogbinbiri — are physically isolated when fuel prices spike or floods cut roads.
- A single 40-foot container can stock 200+ households for a month at a delivered cost of around $18,000.
The manifest.
When this drive runs.
Pick the way that fits.
Donate to the drive
$25 fills one household for a week
Take this pathSponsor a container
$18,000 stocks ~200 households for a month
Take this pathCoordinate locally
Run a collection at your Region
Take this pathVolunteer (logistics + manifest)
Help track containers from US port to Warri delivery
Take this pathSend something home.
$25 fills one household for a week Your contribution joins a published cycle with a published manifest.