About us
Who we are & our story
A Nigerian humanitarian and development organisation working to restore hope and dignity to people pushed to the margins of society, and the road that brought us here from 2018.
Our vision
A Nigeria where the dignity and potential of every indigent person, and especially of internally displaced persons, are recognised and protected, even amid rising insecurity, so that no one is left behind on the road out of poverty.
Our mission
To provide humanitarian relief to internally displaced and indigent persons across Nigeria through educational sponsorship, entrepreneurial support and the provision of shelter, delivered through fundraising, partnership and advocacy, so that lives disrupted by displacement and poverty are protected, rebuilt and made self-reliant.
What governs how we work
Our core values
Eight values govern how we work. Open any one to read what it means in practice.
01Love
Love is the reason the Foundation exists before it is a value we practise. We serve because every person carries a worth that displacement and poverty cannot take from them, not because a programme requires it, but because we are convinced of it.
02Kindness
How we serve matters as much as what we deliver. A family that has lost its home is owed patience and gentleness, not efficiency alone, so kindness governs the manner of every interaction, from the Board to the field.
03Solidarity
We work with the people we serve as partners and equals. They understand their communities better than any outsider, so our efforts grow from their views and ideas, we listen, we learn, and we build solutions together.
04Social justice
We act with urgency. We cannot be patient while people endure preventable hardship, so we press for both immediate relief and the deeper changes that address its causes.
05Need-led service
Our programmes are determined solely by need, not by status, ethnicity, gender, religion or outside interest. We recognise that poverty has many faces and respond to all of them.
06Commitment
Real progress demands more than sympathy; it demands commitment and, at times, self-sacrifice. We hold ourselves to that standard in everything we deliver.
07Independence
We work for the people of our society and no one else. We partner widely but remain independent of political, economic, religious and social interests, so the people we serve are never used to promote causes that are not their own.
08Hope & strength
We draw our energy from a realistic, undying hope for a better tomorrow, and from the skill and resourcefulness of the people we serve, which we make the foundation of every programme.
Milestones from 2018
Our story
From a single charity drive to a multi-programme foundation. Early outreach built the trust and access on which our three pillars now stand.
- Foundation
- Outreach
- Campaign
- Programme
- Convening
Operating principles
How we work
Listen first
Every intervention opens with community consultation. The classroom furniture project at Durumi began with an assessment and an agreement with camp coordinators, not with a decision made in Abuja.
Build local capability
Where a community holds the skill, we buy it there. Classroom furniture at Durumi is built by a carpenter living in the camp, the same expenditure creates a learning space and an income.
Design for measurement
Each programme has a written model: who it serves, the standard package, the cost per person, its indicators and its exit criteria. A programme without one is not launched.
Concentrate, don't spread
We would rather run a few programmes properly and prove they worked than run many and prove nothing. This is why programmes are introduced in stages rather than launched all at once.
Plan the exit
Every programme defines what completion looks like. Support ends by a recorded route, completion, progression, graduation or handover, and is never simply allowed to lapse.
Report honestly
We publish what we can evidence and disclose what we cannot. Where a figure is not yet verified, we describe the work rather than quantify it.
Read the full Corporate Profile
Twenty-nine pages: our theory of change, programme portfolio, track record, monitoring framework, governance, financial stewardship, risk register and roadmap to 2029.