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World Sight Day 2024 – Children, Love Your Eyes

The TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) is delighted to join the global community in commemorating World Sight Day 2024. As a private independent philanthropic grant-making organisation, the Foundation is committed to addressing the challenges of preventable blindness across...

Condolence Visit and Support to Flood Victims in Borno State

On Monday, September 23, 2024, a team from the TY Danjuma Foundation visited the Borno State Government to extend the condolences of our Founder and Chairman Emeritus to the government and good people of Borno State following the recent devastating floods, which led...

Lt. Gen. TY Danjuma donates $500,000 to the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State..

The University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED) in Ondo State has recently been the beneficiary of a generous donation from retired Lieutenant General T.Y. Danjuma. The amount of $500,000 has been allocated to support the development of the Olu Akinkugbe Faculty of...

Vision for a Brighter Future: Combatting Preventable Blindness

The TY Danjuma Foundation, in collaboration with the Care Vision Support Initiative (CAVSI), recently concluded a series of free comprehensive eye care interventions in Taraba and Edo state. These initiatives were specifically designed to reduce preventable blindness...

Improving Teaching Quality For Improved Quality Of Education

On June 22, 2024, Rural Development Reform Foundation (RUDERF) partnered with the TY Danjuma Foundation to implement a programme aimed at “The Enhancing Quality Education” in Benin City, Edo State. The teacher-focused training programme is dedicated to improving the...

TY Danjuma Foundation award prizes to winners of 2019 Channels International Kids cup

May 27, 2019 | Education, Grants, Partnership | 1 Comment

For the fourth year in a row, the TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) has partnered with Channels Television on the Channels International Kids Cup; a football competition organised initially for primary schools across Nigeria but now expanded to Africa,...

Improving maternal and child health in Yakoko, Taraba State

May 10, 2019 | Grants, Health, Main Grants, Taraba Community Fund | 2 Comments

In our maternal and child health interventions, the Foundation strives to make tremendous impact in rural communities across Nigeria. One of the ways to ensure intervention impact is to keep a close watch on the implementation. Hence, a team of...

TY Danjuma Foundation commissions a community based emergency health transport in Niger State

Apr 25, 2019 | Grants, Health, Main Grants, Partnership | 0 Comments

A maternal, neonatal and child health project implementation by RaiSe Foundation with funding from the TY Danjuma Foundation has reached a milestone with the commissioning of the community based emergency transport (tricycle ambulance) and the...

TY Danjuma Foundation Trains Over 100 NGOs in Nigeria

Mar 22, 2019 | Edo community Fund, Education, Grants, Health, Main Grants, Partnership, Taraba Community Fund | 4 Comments

On Friday, March 22, 2019, the TY Danjuma Foundation, Nigeria’s first indigenous grantmaking Foundation, organised a one-day capacity building training for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria to improve capacity to source for funding...

Providing Water for Health #World Water Day

Mar 22, 2019 | Discretionary Grants, Education, Grants, Health, Partnership | 1 Comment

Water is life. But dirty and contaminated water breeds death. The knowledge of the correlation between clean water and good health is probably many centuries old. In all honesty now, it is basic knowledge. Yet it is 2019 and on March 22, we have...

OBITUARY – Prof. Jean Frances Herskovits Corry (May 1935 – February 2019)

Feb 11, 2019 | Education | 1 Comment

It is with regret and profound sadness that the TY Danjuma Foundation announces the death of one of its founding trustees – Prof. Jean Herskovits Corry on February 5, 2019 in New York, USA. Prof. Jean Herskovits Corry served on the Programmes Committee of the Board since its inception in 2009, where she provided strategic oversight on the implementation of education projects.

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