The TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) with its Board of trustees visited some project sites in Edo State, as the first year of responsive grantmaking draws to a close. The aim of the visits was to showcase the various 2010 interventions across the Foundation’s focus areas in Edo state.

The projects visited were the Foundation’s interventions across its focus areas in the state. These were; Edo College and St. Maria Goretti Girls Grammar School, where a grantee, Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) is implementing the Computer 4 Schools (C4S) project; and Edokpolor Grammar School, Benin City, where Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability, Professionalism (LEAP)-Africa is implementing the Leadership, Effectiveness and Civics (LEC) curriculum. They also paid a visit to the Foundation’s Community Health intervention at St. Maria Goretti Girls Grammar School, Benin City, where Action Health Incorporated (AHI) is implementing a project aimed at promoting access of young people to sexual and reproductive health information and services. In appreciation for the Foundation’s intervention in Edo, the state Commissioner for Education, Barrister Omoropiomwan Ekpenisi, presented the Foundation with a plaque for supporting the implementation of the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) project in Edo state.

The visiting team also attended the final graduation ceremony of 140 graduates of the University of Benin who had benefited from the Workplace Intelligent Nigerian Graduates (WINGS) programme. This is the Foundation’s youth employability project implemented by Afterschool Graduate Development Center (AGDC).

The Board members, while in the state, paid courtesy calls on the Executive Governor of the state, His Excellency, Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomole, and the supreme monarch of Benin Kingdom, Oba Erediauwa. They commended the Foundation for its work, and pledged to give all the assistance that may be required to enable TYDF’s grantees work better in the state.