About Us
Who We Are
As a grassroot organization, the Associated Health Resource Center (AHRC) provides culturally appropriate and gender specific programs to address the individual or group’s needs that posses major life challenges to their well-being.
While providing essential basic medical, and preventative social-health interventions remains our benchmark, AHRC combines self-help medical understanding of how culture, poverty and lack of access to affordable and quality health care and limited information that can prevent the individual from achieving optimal level of function.
What We Do
With this in mind, we provide training tools to assist individuals who are poor, low income and less educated to engage in activities that promotes self-sufficiency and increase their capacity and sense of worth as productive citizens. This we accomplished through multidimensional intervention strategies that directly involves the person, families or communities that are affected with the need(s).
The aim is to improve the individual’s quality of life. Through network of referrals and linkages, individuals living beyond the reach of medical care and health services, lacks access to support services and care are provided with community resource, lists and in some cases management and direct assistance from us through the generosity of our contributors and supporters.
Our Mission
Associated Health Resource Center (AHRC) is dedicated to creating a positive impact in the global community through the delivery of improved social-health care/services to people in need and under served populations. We accomplish this through public health education, trainings, awareness campaigns, advocacy, health promotion and maintenance activities, capacity-building /trainings, community outreach activities, community mobilization, medical missions and distribution of medical equipment, supplies and basic life essentials for survival including food, water, and clothing. Educated consumers make informed decisions regardless of their socio-economic status.
Our Vision
To serve as a catalyst for the promotion of healthy life practices that enhance an individual’s overall well-being and improve quality of life. We believe that Healthier individuals + Happy Communities = Productive citizens.
Our Overall Goal
Is to reduce social and health illness, disability and even deaths that are associated with preventable causes. Yet, each one of our initiatives have program specific goals and objectives. The Associated Health Resource Center recognizes that Life challenges come in different shapes and forms. For these reasons, we assist individuals and groups to develop a plan of care as we strive to provide targeted interventions. Active involvement of our program participants fosters a sense of belonging, ownership and enables them to set realistic goals in order to effectively address the problem(s).
Theresa Ogide-Alaeze
Founder
A compassionate, caring and experienced healthcare professional and educator with over 20 years assisting government, private and non-profit organizations to achieve its missions through effective and strategic programming and capacity building/technical assistance and support services.
Chuk Iregbu
Director
A caring and compassionate scientist and educator with over 20 years of experience improving population health and educating minds for a better future. Specialties: Biochemistry; Public health; Community health; and Community organizer.
Dinma Ogob Alaeze
Director of Operation
An able understanding and effective administrator, who inspires employees and staff, including volunteers to achieve optimal function in reaching their respective goals to achieve agencies’ mission. Leveraging and coordinating agency’s plan of action is vital to our organization.
Cheta B. Ogide
Laboratory Coordinator
A compassionate and dedicated scientist, who believe in providing early intervention by identifying, testing, counseling and assisting other healthcare practitioners to diagnose, treat and referral cases to improve clients/patients’ outcome.
Charles Obiri
Community Health Educator
A compassionate, caring and enthusiastic health worker who believe so much in grassroots outreach event to improve quality of lives “if they cannot come to us, we have to meet them where they are
Fortune Ikwunwo
Nurse-Midwife
A caring and nurturing healthcare professional with over 25 years of experience supporting young girls and women of childbearing during pregnancy, labor/delivery and even after childbirth to achieve positive health outcome.
Felicia Nkiru Okonkwo
Community Health Worker
An effective community health worker who believe in the collective power of educating the communities to improve health outcomes.
Caroline O. Esau
Administrative Assistant
As a frontline staff, providing everyone with courtesy and respect is a core value that AHRC strives to preserve while serving others.