Isaac Balami Foundation

Projects

Here you can experience some of the projects we have worked on up until now.

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IBF Projects

IBF has been self funded, until date, by the Founder and with the help of a few family and friends lending support once in a while. At other times, we have partnered with other NGO’s and organisations to execute other projects. We have been a charity organization, driven with the passion to relief the burdens of the downtrodden, the less privileged and displaced persons due to conflict and violence.

We have engaged in projects on educational interventions such as setting up Bajju Development Association (BADA) Computer Centre in May  2018; offering scholarship to 500 school children in various locations in the Northeast and Abuja between May 2012 and December 2017; we partnered with Save Africa’s Future Leaders Initiative (SAFFLI) during the Covid-19 pandemic recovery period to support some less privileged students living in Agege, Lagos State with some tablets to aid their online learning activities: and currently, we have built a school in Abuja under our IFES project to accommodate the orphans under our IOI project, in the scholarship program.

The school is open to the general public. There are also existing…

…  schools in Bornu State and an ongoing school project in an old government school, which will be commissioned soon for the IDPs in these communities. We run an IBF Orphanage Initiative (IOI) through which we setup shelters for orphans, take care of their feeding, clothing, medical needs and education. Others that are not in our shelters receive periodic interventions. These shelters are located in the FCT, Bornu State and Adamawa State.

We carry out periodic medical outreaches, especially in the Northeast, during which we distribute food suppliments, wheelchairs and crutches, conduct medical check-ups and give medications where necessary.

During the peek of the violence in Bornu State in 2015, we evacuated over 200 persons (men, women and children) to the FCT for safety, where we catered for them until they were able to stand on their feet.

Most of our activities in the Northeast are carried out in Maiha, Madagali, Mubi North and Mubi South, Hong and Michika LGA’s in Adamawa State and Askira Uba in Bornu State.

OUR FOCUS AREAS AND OTHER IMPACTFUL WORK

Continuous Projects

IBF Orphanage initiative (IOI)

Our orphanage accommodates over 50 orphans, providing shelter, healthcare, feeding, clothing and education to them.

We are committed to giving them a brighter future and every year the numbers keep increasing. Currently we are seeking for partners to pool resources together to build modern facilities with hundreds of homes for our orphans even as we hope to take in more orphans the future. Click to join this partnership

IBF Free Education Scheme (iFES)

Through iFES, we adopt schools and students that are on our scholarship; currently our school is IBF Lanique School,

where we have all the pupils on scholarship, in addition to orphans and youths on our scholarship across the country.

You can join us by adopting a child that you could commit to his or her tuition fee for period of time or adopt a school for one-off rehabilitation on our behalf. Click to adopt a child or Click to adopt a school

IBF Community Outreach Programme (iCOP):

WASH Projects: Under our iCOP initiative, we have equally carried out three (3) WASH projects

in three (3) communities, Zara Hassan Birma – Shaffa, Zara Teba – Shaffa and Bwala
communities in Hawul LGA. We found out about how difficult it was for the inhabitants of
these communities to access quality drinking water and the inherent excessive cost of sinking
a borehole in these parts of the country because of the nature of the topography of the area, hence our resultant action to sink boreholes in these communities. The target beneficiaries of
these projects are about 1160 persons.

Medical Outreaches: Still under our iCOP initiative, we carry out periodic medical outreaches, especially in the Northeast, during which we distribute food supplements, wheelchairs and
crutches, conduct medical check-ups and give medications where necessary. Our last
outreach was carried out in December 2018 at Hawul LGA and January 2019 at Askira Uba
LGA with 250 beneficiaries recorded in each of these LGAs. This was self funded and in
partnership with Gabasawa Initiative, and it cost us $22,446.69. Emergency Interventions: During the peek of the violence by Boko Haram attack in 2014 and
2018, in Adamawa and Southern Bornu States axis, IBF engaged in emergency rescue
interventions by evacuating over 500 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) provided shelter, food items and Non Food Items (NFIs) in a make shift camp at Abuja until all these IDPs were
able to return back home. We spent $4,122.33 on this project. This was self funded.  IBF Youth Empowerment Scheme (iYES)

IBF Youth Empowerment Scheme (iYES)

Under the iYES initiative, in 2017, we partnered with Nigerian Rebirth Foundation to organise a TV
Reality Show titled “The Labour Room”.

This project was a youth empowerment and orientation
project focused on national development, projecting our national unity in diversity and job
creation. We had 37 contestants representing each State of the Federation, as direct beneficiaries
of this project. After the project, some of the contestants landed job opportunities with their State
Governments, captains of industries, others in the private sector, NGOs, scholarships and
entrepreneurial ventures. The project lasted for sixty (60) days on live broadcast.
In 2021, we picked up area boy’s (homeless or school drop outs) living under the bridge in Agege, LGA of Lagos State to train them as aircraft engineers and technicians as well as IT Experts in
coding and programming. The beneficiaries of these programmes are 25 youths. Some of them
have completed their trainings and are already gainfully employed. This project was done in
partnership with 7 star Global Hangar and Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Leadership
(IBUAL).

Our Beneficiaries

We’ve helped hundreds of people

Jabir .T. Usman

5/5

“In his 9 years, part of his effort towards helping the needy and less privileged people, especially during Ramadan period, Sallah, and Christmas festivities. Engr Isaac Balami, under his foundation (Isaac Balami Foundation), is set to donate rice and food items to the Muslims for this coming Ramadan.”

Bright

5/5

“I was a former janitor but now an aircraft technician-in-training, thanks to the IYES Project by IBF”

Musa .A.

5/5

Coming in contact with IBF has been one of the best things to happen to me. I received a scholarship, and I am on a proper path to achieving my career path.

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