The MTNF Skills Acquisition Project for Persons with Disabilities was set up to empower youth with disabilities, teaching vocational skills and providing starter business equipment. Participants learned tailoring, beading, shoemaking, and welding, and received toolkits that included embroidery machines, welding machines, and sewing machines. This enabled them to become employable or start their own independent businesses.

Foundation Portfolio:

Economic Empowerment

Project Partner:

Friends of the Disabled.

Location:

Lagos State.

Implementation Period:

2009

Impact:

90 people living with disabilities impacted.

Expenditure to date:

N37,000,000

Status:

This project was extended to able-bodied youth with the Youth Skills Development Project later in 2013. It provided vocational training for specific and competitive technical skills, which many industries require. It aimed to foster the spirit of self-reliance, making them competent technicians in the labour market, as business owners or in employment. To achieve this, the Foundation supported 4 government technical colleges with cutting-edge equipment and upgraded the facilities. Upskilling is a component of many of the Foundation’s projects, and are continuously evaluated to suit the prevailing environment.

 

United Nations Sustainability Goals Alignment:
This project aligned with SDG 1, 8, 9, 10 and 17

The MTNF Scholarships consist of the MTNF Science and Technology Scholarship Scheme (2009) and the MTNF Scholarship Scheme for Blind Students (2012). The schemes offered annual grants to eligible high-performing 200/300-level students from low-income families, in public tertiary institutions across Nigeria, in STEM disciplines and for blind students, in any course of their choice.. Having scaled the aptitude tests and are accepted into the programme, students are expected to maintain a CPGA of 3.5 to continue receiving the grant. The MTNF Scholarships have reduced the burden of education costs and opened doors to opportunities that might have been out of reach, empowering Nigeria’s best and brightest students to pursue their passions, excel in their chosen fields, and build a brighter future.

Foundation Portfolio:

Education / Youth Development

Project Partner:

After School Graduate Development Centre, Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) and Dragnet Solutions Limited.

Location:

36 States and the FCT

Implementation Period:

Science and Technology Scholarships: 2009 – to date

Blind Students Scholarships: 2012 – to date

Impact:

5,365 scholars impacted and 14,758 scholarships awarded across the 36 States and FCT in Nigeria.

Expenditure to date:

N2,573,871,974

United Nations Sustainability Goals Alignment:
This project aligned with SDG 4 and 17

The MTNF Learning Facility Support Project sought to create a favourable environment for teachers and students in secondary schools, to improve teaching and learning. School furniture was provided in public schools across the 6 geopolitical zones, including Military and Police schools.

Foundation Portfolio:

Education

Project Partner:

Alibert Products Nigeria
Limited

Location:

Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Kwara, Oyo, Kogi, Kaduna, Borno, Ondo, Imo, Delta, Osun, Kano, Ekiti, Niger, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Jigawa, Anambra, FCT, Abia, Bauchi, Benue, Ebonyi, Lagos, Ogun, Yobe, Cross River, Gombe, Katsina, Rivers, Sokoto, Kebbi, Bayelsa, and Zamfara States.

Implementation Period:

2009 – 2019

Impact:

A total of 16,000 sets of student desks and benches (about 400,000 pupils reached), along with 1,600 sets of teachers’ tables and chairs, were distributed to 21 schools across six states.

Expenditure to date:

N1,517,000,000

Status:

The Foundation continues to support learning in schools, in the form of donation of facilities such as ICT and , Science and Tech labs in schools.

 

United Nations Sustainability Goals Alignment:
This project aligned with SDG 4