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Affordable financial services are central to addressing poverty, unfortunately only 36% of women in Nigeria have access to affordable financial services. Habeeb Okunola Foundation works to ensure that poor women in rural areas have access to an extensive range of suitable and affordable financial services to create new opportunities, grow their businesses and earn a living. This empowers them to rise above the threshold of poverty and afford the basic necessities of life.

We strive to contribute our developmental quota towards eradicating poverty and building shared prosperity through our financial inclusion programme ‘She Saves Nigeria’ (SSN). SSN was founded on the premise that undeserving poor people living in rural with no banks or financial service should be able to save their own money as well as access microloans. SSN helps women in rural communities organize group of 12 to 15 people, who are given the sum of 70,000 - 100,000 naira as a start-up loan all members have access to and can borrow from. Every member of the group save 1000 naira every month and disburse loans; that are paid back with 10% interest. Group members elect their own leadership annually, set their bylaws, and decide collectively how to achieve their goals.

At the end of each year, the amount saved plus interest accumulated is divided up equally among group members. After 18 months of existence, it is expected that members of the group would have witnessed socioeconomic transformation and progression, and are obligated to use the startup fund to set up a new savings group in another undeserving community around and recruit beneficiaries, thereby leading to a virtuous cycle of financial inclusion.

In consonance to supporting undeserving poor in Nigeria, the Chief Servant officer of our foundation marked his birthday with many philanthropic activities. Donation food items to 50 widows in Home Of Grace Orphanage in Agbowa, Lagos Nigeria was one of the many charitable gesture.

What is wealth for if not to help ordinary people participate and thrive socioeconomically in the society - Habeeb Okunola

2 billion poor people around the world; particularly women are financially excluded. What this means is that these women do not have a place to save money, or access to affordable loans. This results into inability to meet future needs, such as health care for the family, education for their children, capital to invest in starting or growing a business.

Affordable financial services are central to addressing poverty, unfortunately only 36% of women in Nigeria have access to affordable financial services. Habeeb Okunola Foundation works to ensure that poor women in rural areas have access to an extensive range of suitable and affordable financial services to create new opportunities, grow their businesses and earn a living. This empowers them to rise above the threshold of poverty and afford the basic necessities of life.

We strive to contribute our developmental quota towards eradicating poverty and building shared prosperity though our financial inclusion programme ‘She Saves Nigeria’ (SSN). SSN was founded on the premise that undeserving poor people living in rural with no banks or financial service should be able to save their own money as well as access micro loans. SSN helps women in rural communities organize group of 12 to 15 people, who are given the sum of 50,000 naira as a start up loan all members have access to and can borrow from. Every member of the group save 1000 naira every month and disburse loans; that are paid back with 10% interest. Group members elect their own leadership annually, set their bylaws, and decide collectively how to achieve their goals.

At the end of each year, amount saved plus interest accumulated is divided up equally among group members. After 18 months of existence, it is expected that members of the group would have witnessed socioeconomic transformation and progression, and are obligated to to use the startup fund to set up a new savings group in another undeserving community around and recruit beneficiaries, thereby leading to a virtuos cycle of financial inclusion.

We believe the importance of Peace Justice and Strong Institution in a country
with over 200 million and 250 ethnics can never be over emphasised which is
why we continue to commit to redouble effort to resolve or prevent conflict
through various initiative amongst which is the Armed Forces Infrastructure
Support Programme,

Many school children in public primary and secondary schools across Nigeria who belong to poor families drop out of school despite primary and secondary education is officially free in public schools; for want of educational materials (uniforms, bags, books, pen etc.).

In order to encourage these children; every school term Habeeb
Okunola Foundation collectively impacts 3,000 students via distribution of school uniforms, bags, shoes and writing materials to different schools in poor communities every academic year.

The Back to school programme has assisted us in contributing towards reducing the huge number of out of school children in the country as well as keeping others in school.

Core to the work we do at Habeeb Okunola Foundation is enabling access to higher education through scholarship to promising students. By offering higher education scholarships, we create opportunities for many youths who are on the verge of losing hope of a better future.

The higher education scholarship rewards undergraduate and postgraduate students in Nigeria who have demonstrated their passion for learning.

According to UNICEF, eight of the 10 most dangerous places to be born are sub-Saharan Africa, where pregnant women are much less likely to receive assistance during delivery due to poverty, conflict and weak institutions. With the newborn mortality rate of 29 deaths per 1,000 births, the global estimates rank Nigeria as the 11th highest on newborn deaths.

The continuum for maternal, newborn, and child health usually refers to continuity of individual care. Continuity of care is necessary throughout the lifecycle (adolescence, pregnancy, childbirth, the postnatal period, and childhood) and also between places of caregiving (including households and communities, outpatient and outreach services, and clinical-care settings).

Habeeb Okunola Foundation supports nursing mothers by providing them with free newborn kits and materials to afford their child a healthy life

Affordable financial services are central to addressing poverty, unfortunately only 36% of women in Nigeria have access to affordable financial services. Habeeb Okunola Foundation works to ensure that poor women in rural areas have access to an extensive range of suitable and affordable financial services to create new opportunities, grow their businesses and earn a living. This empowers them to rise above the threshold of poverty and afford the basic necessities of life.

We strive to contribute our developmental quota towards eradicating poverty and building shared prosperity through our financial inclusion programme ‘She Saves Nigeria’ (SSN). SSN was founded on the premise that undeserving poor people living in rural with no banks or financial service should be able to save their own money as well as access microloans. SSN helps women in rural communities organize group of 12 to 15 people, who are given the sum of 70,000 - 100,000 naira as a start-up loan all members have access to and can borrow from. Every member of the group save 1000 naira every month and disburse loans; that are paid back with 10% interest. Group members elect their own leadership annually, set their bylaws, and decide collectively how to achieve their goals.

At the end of each year, the amount saved plus interest accumulated is divided up equally among group members. After 18 months of existence, it is expected that members of the group would have witnessed socioeconomic transformation and progression, and are obligated to use the startup fund to set up a new savings group in another undeserving community around and recruit beneficiaries, thereby leading to a virtuous cycle of financial inclusion.