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TY Danjuma Foundation, UN Women, and ATRED Foundation Launch Mechanised Cassava Processing Project to Empower Women Farmers in FCT

On 9 June 2026, the TY Danjuma Foundation, in partnership with UN Women and the ATRED Foundation, launched a mechanised cassava processing project for women in the Sheda Galadima community in Kwali Area Council, approximately 72 kilometres from Abuja. The project aims...

Call for Participation: Validation of Nigeria’s Foundations & HCDTs Database

Virtual Zonal Consultation: Validation of Nigeria's Foundations & HCDTs Database You are invited to validate Nigeria's most comprehensive database of 81 private/corporate foundations and 95 Host Community Development Trusts (HCDTs), developed by NNNGO for the TY...

Cascading Nutrition Knowledge to Improve Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding Practices

The Freeheart Africa Reach Out Foundation, with funding from the TY Danjuma Foundation, is implementing a critical malnutrition-curbing intervention in Kaduna State. As a central part of this effort, 30 primary healthcare workers have undergone an intensive two-day...

Transforming Education Through Responsive Grantmaking

Improving learning outcomes requires a coordinated set of interrelated actions, like strengthening teaching quality, expanding access to relevant learning resources, and enhancing education management systems. Recognising that teachers are central to effective...

TY Danjuma Foundation Inaugurates Learning Complex in Takum, Boosting Access to Quality Education

In a major step to improve access to quality education in Nigeria, the TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) has commissioned the TY Danjuma Academy, a multi-grade, ultra-modern school, in Takum, Taraba State. Officially unveiled by His Royal Majesty, Barrister Sopiya Ahmadu,...

TY Danjuma Foundation Hosts the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Takum, Taraba State

Oct 21, 2020 | Partnership, Welfare | 3 Comments

The TY Danjuma Foundation hosted the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria - Edward Kallon - on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 in Takum to discuss issues of mutual concern. The event was also attended by representatives of the...

Increasing the Supply of Qualified Teachers in Nigeria

Oct 5, 2020 | Education, Grants, Main Grants, Partnership | 1 Comment

The Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG-4) is the education goal. It comprises 10 targets all hinged on ensuring inclusive equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. Specifically, target 4.c of the goal aims...

COVID-19: Sustaining Access to Maternal & Child Health Services in Edo State

Jul 18, 2020 | Edo community Fund, Health | 0 Comments

The Foundation supported a sensitisation campaign on preventing the spread of COVID-19 amongst pregnant and lactating mothers across 14 primary healthcare facilities. The awareness creation campaign was supplemented by the production and distribution of 3000 facemasks across the 14 primary healthcare centres to pregnant and nursing mothers, healthcare workers as well as to the wider community around the Foundation’s office in Edo state – Igbesawan, Igun, and Akpakpava.

COVID-19: TY Danjuma Foundation Donates Relief Items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Wassa Resettlement, Abuja, FCT

Apr 23, 2020 | Discretionary Grants, Health, Welfare | 4 Comments

The TY Danjuma Foundation, a private, independent philanthropic grant-making organisation established in 2009 by Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (RTD), GCON – to improve the quality of life of Nigerians through health and education...

Improving Quality Education through Community Engagement and Partnership

Feb 6, 2020 | Education, Partnership | 0 Comments

The TY Danjuma Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dako LEA Primary School Community Based Management Committee and Gwagwalada Local Education Authority. The tripartite agreement seeks to restore and uphold a good...

Continuing a Decade-Long Support for Quality Health and Education in Nigeria

Jan 31, 2020 | Education, Grants, Health | 5 Comments

The TY Danjuma Foundation has in the last 10 years given over 3 billion naira in grants to promote quality health care and education across states in Nigeria. In 2020, the Foundation has awarded the sum of Two Hundred Million Naira...

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