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

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

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.

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Community Campaign Against Cancer

Community Campaign Against Cancer

Over 100,000 Nigerians are diagnosed with cancer every year, out of which about 80,000 die due to late detection or presentation. A ratio of 4 in 5 makes Nigeria the country with the worst cancer death ration in the world. A...

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