Firm donates N16 million to cancer foundation, survivors

A firm, Beiersdorf Nigeria, the global maker of leading skincare brand, Nivea, has donated N16.5 million to The Dorcas Cancer Foundation, a non-profit organisation, in support of care for paediatric cancer survivors in Nigeria.

The development is a fall-out of the firm’s partnership with the Foundation to create a back-to-school fund aimed at helping children who survived cancer to get back to school.

The fund was raised from in-store activations that ran from September to November 2024 across the top five retail chains, where a sum of N300 was set aside to be donated from every Nivea product sold within the period.

Country Manager of the firm, Oladele Adeyole, who described Beiersdorf as a company that believes in being a positive force for community good, stressed that it is the reason behind the firm’s sustainability agenda, which aims to promote its social and environmental commitment to foster a more inclusive society and create positive environmental impact.

Adeyole added that the partnership with the Foundation is just one of the ways the firm is impacting the lives of the people in the markets in which it operates.

In her remarks, Paediatric Oncologist and Founder of the Foundation, Dr Adedayo Joseph, thanked Beiersdorf Nigeria for the partnership.