501(c)(3) Public charity · Serving Southeastern Nigeria
Generosity you can measure.
We help Nigerian communities build lives that last through education, enterprise, and infrastructure. Every project so far has been paid for by our own board, because we believe in proving the model before asking you to fund it.
We went first
Every dollar spent so far came from our own board.
No outside donor has funded a single project yet. If we are going to ask you to partner with us, we owe you evidence that the system works with our own money first. Here is what that money has done.
The headquarters site: about one acre, walled and bought with personal funds, now being donated to The Onwunaka Foundation.
100%
of project spending funded by our Board of Directors
$0
from outside donors to date
~1 acre
of land, bought with personal funds, being donated for our Nigeria headquarters
The Impact Ledger
Results, not promises.
Figures as of October 2026. Receipts, photos, and records for each are available to any partner on request.
100
primary school students supplied
A full school year of supplies for $82 in total. Supplies for 50 more are being bought now.
₦5M
invested in one textile business
About $3,372, sent in two transfers, for a full pallet of inventory to sell across Aba.
4
selling seasons from one $500 gift
One shop kept fully stocked from Christmas 2025 through Christmas 2026.
1
lawyer overseeing every partnership
Independent legal counsel in Nigeria, retained month to month.
Your dollar, followed all the way
What one dollar does in Nigeria.
$1 ≈ ₦…
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Protection
About a day of legal oversight
Our lawyer reviews every partnership for ₦30,000 a month, roughly ₦1,000 a day.
Enterprise
Put to work four times
Each dollar of one $500 gift has restocked the same shop for four selling seasons, and counting.
Education
82¢ equips a student for a full year
We supplied 100 primary students for $82 (₦113,160), so one dollar covers more than one child.
Stories of evidence
The people doing the work.
Enterprise · Aba, Abia State
Emmanuel Onohoe: from sourcing agent to supplier
Before
Emmanuel sourced textiles for his clients, earning only on what each client ordered.
What we did
Invested ₦5 million (about $3,372) so he could buy a full pallet of material of his own.
Now
He sells that inventory to stores across Aba, and is searching for a storefront to open in 2027.
Enterprise · Okponkume, Nigeria
One $500 gift. Four full seasons.
Each time the shop owner came to repay us, we asked him to keep it and restock again. The same dollars keep working.
Christmas 2025
Full inventory for the holiday rush.
Easter 2026
He offered repayment. We said: restock again.
August festivals 2026
More profit, and a third full season.
Christmas 2026
Repayment offered in September. Kept for a fourth.
Next
A sustainability plan so he no longer needs outside cash.
How we choose partners
Our chairman took the risk, so your gift doesn’t have to.
Before asking anyone for a dollar, Dr. Chibueze Onwunaka spent more than $10,000 of his own money in the community: buying land for a home, hiring a local architectural firm and local craftsmen, and buying materials from local businesses. It was a real-world test of who delivers, who is honest, and who can be trusted.
He is also completing his community’s traditional coming-of-age ceremony, which recognizes him as a leader expected to build healthy relationships and solve problems. The foundation only works with people and businesses who have passed that test.
These were personal expenses, paid from personal accounts. None of it is counted in our Impact Ledger.
The need, by the numbers
The scale is vast. The answer is local.
18.3M
children out of school
Nearly one in three Nigerian children.
UNICEF Nigeria, 2025
86.8M
people without electricity
The largest access gap of any country.
World Bank, Tracking SDG7 2025
2 in 3
rural Nigerians lack power
Rural access reached only about 33% in 2023.
World Bank data, 2023
85.6%
of workers are self-employed
Small businesses are the economy, so we strengthen them.
National Bureau of Statistics, Q2 2024
Our pillars
A seed planted in its community grows roots.
Trust · Hope · Excellence
Our promise to every partner.
Trust is earned in the open. These are the standards we hold ourselves to.
I
We spend our own money first
The board funds new models before we ask anyone else to.
II
Every partnership is under legal review
Independent counsel in Nigeria oversees our agreements.
III
Your project gift stays with your project
Restricted gifts go only where you direct them.
IV
We publish what worked, and what didn’t
Annual Form 990, project budgets, and quarterly impact reports.
Partner with us
We proved it with our money. Now multiply it with yours.
Most impact
Give financially
Monthly, one-time, or to a specific project. Tax-deductible, with an instant receipt.
In kind
Give resources
Books, laptops, solar equipment, building materials, or professional expertise, matched to a real need.
The quarterly field report
See the receipts, four times a year.
One email each quarter: what we funded, what it cost, and what changed. Photos, figures, and honest notes on what didn’t work. Nothing in between.
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