The Humanitarian Safety Chaplaincy Mission (HSCM), Nigeria, has unveiled its five-year humanitarian strategy aimed at boosting community care and ethical leadership across the nation and beyond.

This was unveiled yesterday during the official visit of the Global President of the International Diplomatic Alliance (IDA), USA, Dr Jerrodd Crockett, to the IDA Nigeria office in Lagos.

The Chaplain General of HSCM and IDA Nigeria Representative, Dr Funmi Sosanya, presented the strategy in a keynote speech that marked what she described as “a new era of global-local collaboration in humanitarian diplomacy and trauma response.”

According to her, the HSCM five-year plan has five core pillars, targeting 1,000 chaplains, emergency trauma units, youth leadership programmes and justice reform initiatives nationwide.

The launch of the five-year plan marks a significant step in strengthening Nigeria’s humanitarian landscape and institutionalising chaplaincy as a force for peace, healing, and resilience.

Sosanya said they would deploy 1,000 certified chaplains to hospitals, IDP camps, correctional centres, schools, and disaster zones to offer psychosocial support, trauma care, moral guidance, and conflict mediation.

According to her, they will establish community emergency & trauma response units, and mobile chaplaincy teams will be created to deliver frontline spiritual and emotional care during natural disasters, civil unrest, and emergencies.