Foundation commits N156.3m to health, education

The TY Danjuma Foundation has committed N156.3 million in grants to community health, education and skills training across 22 communities in four states. The total grant was signed over to 17 non-governmental organisations that will execute some 18 community projects, chosen out of more than 250, in Taraba, Edo, Kebbi and Benue states. Chief executive […]

The TY Danjuma Foundation has committed N156.3 million in grants to community health, education and skills training across 22 communities in four states.
The total grant was signed over to 17 non-governmental organisations that will execute some 18 community projects, chosen out of more than 250, in Taraba, Edo, Kebbi and Benue states.
Chief executive officer of the foundation, Dr. Sunday Udo said at the signing ceremony in Nasarawa that the increasing number of proposals coming before the foundation “just tells you the enormity of the challenge out there. There’s a huge need in the areas of health and education.”
He urged local investors to help finance domestic nongovernment organisations working to improve lives of rural Nigerians.
“We should be our brother’s keeper. We should be able to participate and engage. The gap is huge and one person can’t do it all. We know what’s happening in the economy today. People really need support,” said Udo.
Some 65 percent of the projects getting funding will work in community health, and the others in educational and skills training across 22 communities in Taraba, Edo, Kebbi and Benue states.
In the second year running, some of the projects will target internally displaced people, including one to train counsellors to offer psycho-spiritual therapy for residents of the north east traumatised by Boko Haram and leaving their homes to live in camps for displaced people.
The foundation uses a multi-million dollar endowment by its founder General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) to finance community development projects by local NGOs.