Our initiatives
Four pathways out of poverty
Enterprise, health, farming and skills: the four things that most often decide whether a Nigerian family stays poor. Each programme has its own page, budget and audited results.
The four programmes
Choose a pathway to explore
What each programme does, where it works and what it has achieved so far.
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Enterprise & Micro-Grants
6,800 small businesses funded since 2017, seven in ten of them led by women.
- Core focus
- Seed capital, business training and mentorship for local entrepreneurs and women-led cooperatives.
- Impact
- Boost household incomes by 150% within 12 months of the first grant.
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Healthcare Access
24 clinics and subsidised insurance, so one illness never costs a family everything.
- Core focus
- Community health clinics, maternal care and subsidised health insurance coverage.
- Impact
- Prevent medical expenses from pushing vulnerable families into debt.
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Agricultural Growth
Tools, climate-smart training and a guaranteed buyer, so the lean season stops being a hungry one.
- Core focus
- Supplying smallholder farmers with modern tools, climate-smart training and direct market access.
- Impact
- Eliminate seasonal food insecurity for rural farming families.
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Youth Education & Tech
Free digital-skills bootcamps, laptops on loan and paid placements for young people in underserved towns.
- Core focus
- Free digital-skills training, laptops on loan and paid placements with partner businesses.
- Impact
- Prepare 500,000+ young Nigerians for the modern digital economy.
Across all four programmes
Where we work today
- states, from Lagos to Bauchi
- 18
- communities that invited us in
- 212
- staff and field officers, 91% hired locally
- 640
- of spending goes straight to programmes
- 92%
How we start
How a community joins a programme
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01
An invitation
Traditional rulers, a ward councillor or a residents' association asks us in. We never arrive uninvited.
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Six weeks of listening
Field officers who speak the local language run household surveys and open meetings to learn what keeps families poor.
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A plan made together
A community committee chooses the programmes, agrees the selection criteria and signs a public commitment with us.
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A hand-over date
Every programme has an exit plan. After three to five years local groups run it, and we keep measuring for three more.
Fund a pathway
Choose the programme your gift supports
Give once or every month, and pick the initiative your money goes to. You will get a report from that programme every quarter.
Get connected
Field stories from the road to 2040
One email a month: a family's story, the numbers behind it and where help is needed next.