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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,...

Midterm Assessment of 2022 – 2027 Strategic Goals

The TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) has concluded the series of strategic review meetings as part of its mid-term evaluation of the 2022–2027 Strategic Plan. This midterm review marks a crucial point in the Foundation’s strategic journey, offering a structured chance to...

Free Medical Outreach in Makoko Community and Soteria Hospital, Lagos State

The TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF), in collaboration with Pro-Health International (PHI), concluded a week-long comprehensive medical outreach in Lagos State, targeting residents of the Makoko community. Makoko, regarded as one of Africa’s largest floating slums, is a...

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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