Our Funding Priority Areas
IBF Orphanage Initiative (IOI)
We run an IBF Orphanage Initiative (IOI) through which we set-up shelters for orphans, take care of their feeding, clothing, medical needs and education.
We also offer support to other shelters with periodic interventions. Our shelter is located in Lokogoma, Abuja in the FCT with twenty-four (24) children catered for since inception in 2021. This project has been self-funded. The Isaac Balami Foundation has changed the lives of 24 orphans through this initiative. Sixteen (6) children have been adopted by reputable families with a routine check on their well-being to the new homes they belong to.
IBF Free Education Scheme (iFES)
Through iFES one thousand and sixteen (1016) children have graduated from renowned schools funded by the IBF to enable the children achieve their respective dreams, with dignity and restoration of hope making these children feel loved and belonged.
We have engaged in projects on educational interventions such as setting up, IBF Shaffa Computer Centre in Hawul LGA, in August 2012 with a branch in Shani LGA, both in Bornu State Northeast Nigeria, with 278 graduated beneficiaries; Bajju Development Association (BADA) Computer Centre in Kaduna State, in May 2018 with 549 beneficiaries; offering scholarship to over 1000school children in various locations in the Northeast and Abuja between May 2012andDecember 2022; in partnership with Save Africa’s Future Leaders Initiative (SAFFLI) we took some 16 less privileged students living in Agege, Lagos State for excursion to 7Star Hangarand donated tablets to the students to aid their e-learning activities during the Covid-19 pandemic recovery period; and currently, we have 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 and is currently schooling sixty-three (63) pupils. There is also a nursery and primary school established in 2021 at Shaffa community, with one hundred and seventy-six (176) pupils enrolled as at December 2022 and an ongoing school building reconstruction project in an old government school in Bwala community both in Hawul LGA of Bornu State.