Samuel Olutuyi Foundation is dedicated to the core values of access to quality education, with a focus on girl child education, health and wellness, civic orientation and engagement, and empowering entrepreneurs with a focus on the ‘Womanpreneur’. Read more ABOUT US.
We are dedicated to achieving our mission and actualizing our vision, which are clearly outlined below:
Our Vision
Shaping the future by improving lives and creating a just and equal society.
Our Mission
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation improves lives by initiating and supporting programs that enhance access to quality education, with a focus on the girl child education, boost health and wellness, advance civic orientation and engagement, and empower entrepreneurs with a focus on the ‘Womanpreneur’.
Our mission leads with putting others first and that’s why our creed is taken from Martin Luther King Jnr’s quote “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”.
Our Values
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation will carry out its functions with the following core values:
– Maintain a commitment to doing good for the whole
– Express belief in our faith and the instruction to love our neighbour as ourselves.
– Act with honesty and honour without compromising the truth.
– Put others first
– Act with Integrity and transparency in all our operations
Our Work
Samuel Olutuyi Foundation’s work focuses on four key areas of Education, Health, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurial Support and Development that create opportunities for everyone in our communities to live a better life.
All our programs and initiatives are designed to make life easier and bring stability to the lives of people in our community. Our programs and projects are grassroots-focused, thus enabling us to reach the most vulnerable.
Our strategic partnership ensures that we find lasting solutions to the problems that bedevil our communities, inequality in education, inadequate support for apprentice and entrepreneurs especially petty traders, poor health and wellness information, and the huge gap in civic engagement.
Our work is carried out with a focus on solutions. This is also done with a flexible approach that allows us to apply what we learn from every program or strategy. We also carry out our work through collaborations with other organizations. Our impacts are measured by the actual growth and development of the lives and communities touched.
Access to Quality Education
For us, justice in education means that every child has the right to high-quality education regardless of their gender and family’s financial status.
Health & Wellness
Our intervention is a proactive strategy through community health education.
Empowering Entrepreneurs
Our programs and interventions are in line with World Bank’s assertion that “empowering women is smart economics.
Civic Engagement & Orientation
Our civic orientation initiative seeks to engender trust between citizens and government, create involved citizens instead of demanding customers.
Education Challenge
1 in 5 of the worlds out of school children is in Nigeria. 1 in 4 girls do not complete primary school compared to 1 in 7 boys. 443 million absentee days due to water-related disease each year.
Civic Engagement
Our civic orientation initiative seeks to engender trust between citizens and government, create involved citizens instead of demanding customers.
Poverty Alleviation
70% of poor Nigerians are women. Meanwhile, 1 in 4 Nigeria women are entrepreneurs but mostly in petty trade. Our grants and interventions focus on reducing poverty by supporting and developing entrepreneurs and apprentice.
Global Alignment
Our education programs support efforts towards achieving SDG4. Our Water for Education Project (WAFEP) simultaneously support efforts towards achieving SDG 6. Our entrepreneurial support programs support efforts towards achieving both SDG 5 and SDG 1. Our health and wellness initiative supports SDG 3.
Positively impacting lives...
Children benefited from our Educational Grants
households saved money by benefitting from our notebook supplies program
petty traders benefited from our Petty Traders Grant
young men and women have benefited from our Apprenticeship Grant
children impacted through our Water for Education project (WAFEP) This has also decreased the number of girl child school dropouts in the communities targeted
reached and educated through our community health education program
What People Say About Us
Aladelo Odunola
Education Grant Recipient April 2016Olaifa Damilola Wale
Education Grant Recipient, September 2016Mrs. Alice Oguntoyinbo
Petty Trader’s Grant Recipient, Feb. 2017Mrs. R. E Udeh
Principal, Irepodun Community High SchoolRead Our Latest News
Read the latest news and information on our programs and events.
