About Our Work

Overview

The Foundation is registered as “AKPATA GLOBAL FOUNDATION, INC” in the United States and has a 501 c 3 status.

It is registered in Nigeria as “AKPATA GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION, LTD” and has NGO status as a non-profit organization.

We at present:

  • Give out scholarships to high school kids to cover their College tuition fees
  • Help with affordable homes and shelters for motherless babies, homeless boys and girls
  • Donate to Food Banks
  • Donate to orphanage homes
  • Organize travelling Doctors on Medical trips to Nigeria to help with much needed medical needs etc.

We do all these in The United States, Nigeria and in some other West African countries like Ghana and Equatorial Guinea.

Our Board of directors

Valentine Akpata – CEO
Patricia Omorogbe – President
Osifo Lucky – Secretary
Douglas Strong – VP
Gloria Akpata – Treasurer

Aims and Objectives

The foundation shall exclusively work on humanitarian considerations and the benefits of the association shall be open to irrespective of caste, creed, belief or community.

The foundation will create awareness among the poor people in the fields of education, living condition, and health care, rehabilitation of disabled, agriculture and socio-economic areas purely on charitable basis within the limits of the resources available.

To promote self-help activities enabling communities to better asses their needs and solve their problems them-selves making effective use of local resources and taking responsibility for development of their respected areas as a whole.

The foundation will conduct seminars, workshops, exposure visits, training programs for the marginalized communities of the area in primary health care community based rehabilitation, animal husbandry, and agriculture extension services and school teachers for building their capacities for better health of human and animals and quality education of rural children and social development.

The foundation will support communities in building their capacities for increasing the agricultural production and quality rational goods thereby improving the bargaining power of their produce with comparatively better economic return.

The foundation will conduct research in the areas of low income group households generally and its socio-economic and technological aspects in the fields of natural agriculture, farming, common resource properties (CRP), animal husbandry, sustainable land use management, primary health care and community based rehabilitation of disabled.

The foundation will organize or manage permanent and temporary hospital, basic health care centre, mother and child health (MCH) centres, centres of disabled children, mobile dispensaries, research foundations and other projects.

Integration of disabled persons in community life to accept, respect , feel comfortable with, assist, welcome in their lives and provide equal opportunities in public facilities.

The foundation will take initiatives to work with women educational programs regarding women development especially in marginalized areas.

The foundation will organize village based agriculture cooperative societies and precede loans to the poor farmers at low mark ups for income generation purposes and recover them to form permanent revolving funds on non-profit no-loss basis.

The foundation will introduce new crop production technologies of land use, which is more sustainable and economic for the rural people.

The foundation will raise funds by mean of subscriptions, donations and other financial contributions for the attainment of the above objects and to provide and arrange for adequate maintenance of the accounts of the association.

The foundation will raise funds by means of development consultancies running development academy and through other legal and justifiable means for the attainment of the above aims and objectives of the association.

The foundation will raise funds nationally and internationally in pursuance of its objectives.

The foundation will purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, in the name of association, any real or personal property wherever situated.

When necessary hire services, grant and pay sum of any person as remuneration for services to the association.

The foundation will establish close contacts to NGOs and other related research institutions to promote social development awareness among underprivileged communities.

The foundation will help in the implementation of emergency relief in the event of natural and man made calamities and disasters such as famine, flood, epidemics and wars etc, to people without any discrimination of religion, race, caste and creed.

The foundation will do any acts and or engage in any or all other useful activities, which may be incidental or complementary to or useful in connection with carrying out the objectives of the association.

The foundation will initiate participatory process of village development through supporting community-based organizations and strengthens to become effective and sustainable entities in the design, implementation and management.

The foundation shall be run on non-profit, non-commercial and non-religious basis.

To secure receive, accept and manage funds, donations, grants, endowments and any other moveable or immoveable property from law full sources nationally or internationally and to utilize them for the furthering and promoting the aims and objectives of the association. Subject to the approval of competent authority.

The foundation shall confine its activities only to the objects of the objects as set forth in the Memorandum of Association and income and property of the Association from whatever source derived shall be solely towards the promoting the objects of the foundation