OUR PROGRAMS
Lamin Keitas Hope is a non-profit organization recognized by the IRS as section 501 (c)(3) organization located in Charlotte North Carolina. Lamin Keitas Hope Foundation was founded and led by Dodou Keita & Fatou Jobe Keita in November 2019. The organization is named after their son Lamin Keita, who was diagnosed with SB at 18 weeks of pregnancy.
The organization has two separate missions based on our chapter locations, here in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa.
LAMIN KEITA'S HOPE IN NORTH CAROLINA
In the United States, our mission is to increase peer support among parents of children born with spina bifida. We have created programs to reduce the financial responsibility burdening families and also increase public awareness in our communities.
We will continue to support the National Spina Bifida Association by participating and raising funds annually for Carolinas Walk-N-Roll for Spina Bifida.
LAMIN KEITA'S HOPE IN THE GAMBIA
In Sub-Saharan Africa, we have started our first chapter in the Gambia. Our mission in the Gambian and Sub-Saharan Africa is to save the lives of babies through raising public awareness and providing life-changing surgeries and medication.
Our support programs provide supplies for surgery, CT scans, medicines, wound-care supplies, shunts, and additional items. As we seek funding to support this chapter in managing Spina Bifida in The Gambia, it is out hope to serve as a springboard for the formation of similar nonprofit organizations in other Sub-Saharan countries in Africa.
