Welfare First
We exist for the wellbeing of the families and communities we serve, putting people before processes.
Everyone deserves an opportunity to prosper
Babban Gona Members Trust Fund Association is a registered Nigerian nonprofit (RC: 85812) solely dedicated to the welfare of the children we educate, the mothers we look after, and the communities they live in.
A trust fund dedicated to farming communities
In rural Northern Nigeria, farming families face compounding hardships: mothers deliver babies without trained health workers, children drop out of school because families can't afford fees, and a single bad season can undo years of progress.
The Babban Gona Members Trust Fund Association was created in 2016 as a member-owned nonprofit trust to address these challenges holistically as a community wellbeing issue that demands education, healthcare, economic support, and community solidarity working together.
The Babban Gona Members Trust Fund Association was created in 2016 as a member-owned nonprofit trust to address these challenges holistically as a community wellbeing issue that demands education, healthcare, economic support, and community solidarity working together.
A trust, in name and purpose.
We draw our strength from the values we live out and the communities we serve.
Community-Led
Every program is shaped by community priorities and powered by community leaders.
Generational Impact
We invest in children, mothers, and families to break generational cycles of disadvantage.
Accountable & Transparent
Every naira is accounted for; our governance is independent, formal, and audited.
Multiple programs. One trust.
Whole-family support.
Each of our programs addresses a different dimension of the challenges facing rural families, but they all work together as a single, interconnected system of care. Healthcare enables education. Education drives economic resilience. Resilience strengthens communities. Communities sustain it all.
Mama Care
Prenatal and postnatal care with trained birth attendants because every mother in our communities deserves a safe delivery and a healthy child. In many rural Northern Nigerian communities, the nearest hospital can be over 40 kilometres away. Pregnant women face dangerous journeys on unpaved roads, often delivering without trained medical support. Mama Care was created to close this gap, bringing qualified health workers, essential medicines, and prenatal monitoring directly into the communities where our members live.
Education Adventure Club
In the communities we serve, most children reach their teenage years unable to read a single line of English, not for lack of potential, but because quality education has never found its way to their doorstep. Girls face the steepest climb. Household duties, long distances, and cultural headwinds stack up against them before they ever set foot in a classroom. The Education Adventure Club brings learning into the heart of each community through local young women who are after-school clubs, coaching foundational literacy with technology-boosted tools, becoming, in the process, the visible proof that education and economic independence belong to every woman and every child.
Accountable to the farmers we serve
Every naira entrusted to us goes exactly where it is supposed to: verified by our Board of Trustees and managed in full accordance with Nigerian nonprofit law. Our members are not beneficiaries; they are the owners.
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Incorporated Trustee
Registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria (RC: 85812).
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Board of Trustees
Independent board of trustees with fiduciary duty to the communities we serve, not management.
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Executive Council
Day-to-day operations managed by a small full-time team accountable to the Board.
To improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and enable a better life through sustainable agriculture, community-led development, and inclusive support systems that foster long-term economic resilience and social well-being.