The Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Foundation is a community – based non-profit NGO that seeks to enhance humanity’s quality of life and revive the ideals that are eroding from it. It highlights the significance of everyone becoming their brother’s keeper to advance humanity and ensure everyone has a bright future. With its emphasis on public education, older persons, women, children, and support programs, the foundation operates by the United Nations.
The main goal is to uphold and advance the noble values of the late Tafida (General) Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, a distinguished philanthropist who served as vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the Obasanjo administration. Over the years, the Ambassador Dr Hajiya Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua has been reaching out to the people through the program.
Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Foundation: Motivation
Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Foundation strongly supports the popular engagement of the people in the management of public affairs and believes in bridging the gaps between diverse ethnic and religious groupings. Additionally, given the high degree of illiteracy among our people at the time the foundation was established to honour my memory. Concerns about the extent of poverty, hunger, misery, and illnesses among our people as well as the requirement for effective guidance in good governance are also present.
The objective of the Foundation
According to the Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation (ASYARF), the rising number of street children is mostly due to the uneven distribution of the nation’s resources.
During the Street Child Awareness Campaign in Abuja, the President/Founder made this statement; ” She said that the poverty brought on by the lack of empowerment of the vast majority in society makes it vital for the citizens to attach little importance to the place of value and decency in the battle for survival in a rising competitive environment.”
The solution to the current situation is to redistribute our commonwealth to close the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor, the governed and the led. It is the only way we can create peace, and unity and create a new political and economic order.
Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Foundation Innovative Approach
The Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation (ASYARF) has been actively engaged in capacity-building programs and development initiatives in more than 15 communities across ten states in Nigeria for the past seven years. Strategically locating needy, vulnerable people have been made possible. To get young people and seniors involved in skill-building programs that will help them become self-sufficient and improve their financial situation, we used an assessment method.
Sustainable Development Goals Implemented by ASYARF
ASYARF works tirelessly to ensure that youth and older people from all regions of Nigeria including indigenous women and girls—are equipped with the skills to work and earn money for a good lifestyle. We do this through our sustainable skill empowerment programs, advocacy campaigns, community sensitization campaigns, adult literacy education, and adult literacy donation programs. The following SDGs should be adopted and put into practice as a result: In addition to eradicating gender inequality, our objectives include eradicating poverty and promoting excellent health and wellbeingwell-beingeducation, clean water, and sanitary conditions, sustainable cities and communities, economic growth, good employment.
How Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Foundation’s Innovative Policies are Eradicating Poverty in the Community
In the year 2016, ASYARF released a news release about empowering more adolescents, indigenous women and men, as well as elderly people, through a skills trade and acquisition program. Several towns were made aware of the training program through a campaign that was also started in January.
The group has empowered over 800 kids and 350 indigenous women and girls, including elderly adults, since the commencement of our employment/skills training program in 2008.
Unemployment can be reduced by creative project implementation and legislation. The bulk of those who are currently unemployed in Nigeria is young individuals from Sub-Saharan Africa. Individuals are unemployed and actively seeking work at the moment, according to statistics. Not only are unemployed people and people with low or no source of income, and families who rely on others to survive.
Asabe Shehu Yar’adua Achievements
Dr. Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua, the founder and president of the Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation (ASYARF), was just named a Grand Patron by Man O’War Nigeria. She was chosen for the post because of her unselfish service, among other things.
Since the foundation’s creation, she has placed a high premium on ensuring the well-being of women and children, particularly those who reside in rural areas.
Having stated on numerous occasions that she detests seeing a kid suffer, she has over the years worked to improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable people of society, regardless of their faith or tribe, as she has made a difference in many places.
Dr. Asabe donated prenatal and postnatal vitamin supplements worth millions of naira to women in the community, bringing smiles to the faces of indigenous pregnant and lactating women in the Gora community, Kaduna State, thanks to the foundation, which beliefs in bridging the gaps between different ethnic groups and religious boundaries.
The foundation’s scholarship program was expanded to include impoverished kids who were in desperate need of education, and she had also constructed several boreholes to supply water to villages and groups.
Her contribution to the establishment of the supply of water to a vocational home for the people with special needs in Ogun State, South Africa, ensured that physically challenged people and groups were included in this legendary figure’s charitable activities. The provision of, and supply of water to, a home for disabled and elderly adults in Ogun State, western Nigeria.
As part of its assistance to other non-governmental organizations, the foundation made the gift. The Family Vocational Institute for Disabled, the organization in charge of the vocational home, praised Dr. Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua for teaming up with other inspiring people and organizations to help the residents of the home. Several physically impaired sports athletes have been moved by her smiles at the National Stadium in the Surulere neighborhood of Lagos state, as well as in some other states of the federation.
She stated that “the foundation participated in the program to give its share to the welfare of indigenous women and we were able to fulfill our goals thanks to the cooperation of some foreign organizations.”
She won over the hearts of the Man O’ War leadership with her selflessness and outspoken nature in defense of the less fortunate and vulnerable members of society. She also showed particular concern for youth and women’s issues and was determined to improve the quality of life for those living in rural communities by supplying them with useful goods and materials through several empowerment initiatives.