Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
Impact

What the Foundation has funded, and who reported it.

Every figure on this page carries the organisation that reported it. Figures are used as published: nothing here is a total assembled from separate sources.

Reported by Rotary International
USD $5 million

Committed through the Foundation to The Rotary Foundation to expand its maternal and neonatal mortality initiative in Nigeria.

Rotary International, 2025
USD $4M+

Given to polio eradication in Nigeria, the largest individual contribution to the cause on the African continent.

Rotary International
USD $250,000

2019 leadership gift that helped inspire Rotary's first Peace Center in Africa, at Makerere University, Kampala.

Rotary International
Platinum Trustee

Arch C. Klumph Society, Rotary's recognition tier for contributions between USD $2.5 million and USD $4.99 million.

Rotary International

The Foundation's record

Programme activity reported by the Foundation.

100,000+
Books shipped to the Gambia through the Books For Africa partnership.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation and Books For Africa
20,000
Books shipped to Tanzania under the same partnership.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation and Books For Africa
40,000
Books donated to Liberian youth with Visions in Action.
December 2013
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
USD $600,000
Direct donation to Books For Africa.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation and Books For Africa
₦70 million
Construction of the Rotary Centre in Abuja.
Flagged off March 2020
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
₦48.5 million
Hospital bed sets donated to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria.
May 2020
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
₦50 million
Endowment for the Faculty of Social Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
USD $100,000
Glaucoma research grant at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Mainz, Germany, alongside a Nigerian fellowship for cataract surgery and glaucoma management.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
10 homes
Fully furnished houses for widows at Oraifite, Anambra State, commissioned by the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
January 2024
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
2,000 bags
Rice distributed to widows in Anambra State at the opening of the rice distribution programme.
December 2023
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
120+
University scholarships granted to academically gifted students under the education programme.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
500+
People reached by the youth empowerment programme through micro-finance grants and loans.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
₦500,000
Cerebral palsy donation to the Benola initiative.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation
2020
Nigeria certified free of wild poliovirus.
World Health Organization
This extremely generous donation of over 1 million school books, law texts, a large container of school supplies, and over 100 computers will go a long way to meet the needs of Nigeria's future generation.
Howard F. Jeter, former United States Ambassador to Nigeria
Recognition

Partners

The institutions the Foundation works alongside, and what the relationship covers.

Rotary International

Polio eradication, maternal and neonatal health, peace and conflict management. The Foundation's largest institutional relationship.

Books For Africa

Book shipments to Nigeria, the Gambia and Tanzania, and a direct donation to the organisation.

The Carter Center

Public health work in Nigeria.

UNICEF

Immunisation activities in Nigeria, alongside Rotary and the World Health Organization.

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation

Education of the nation's future leaders and response to the plight of the less privileged.

Mainz Hospital Research

Glaucoma research and a Nigerian fellowship at the University of Mainz.

Working with the Foundation

Programme officers and institutional partners can reach the Foundation directly at its Abuja headquarters.

Contact the Foundation