Get involved
Fund something specific. Get the report on exactly that.
Support at any level is applied directly to programme delivery, and every contribution is reported against a named school.
What you receive for a gift today
An acknowledgement and a report — not a tax receipt.
Our charitable registration is in progress. Until it is granted we cannot issue official receipts, and will not imply otherwise.
You receive written acknowledgement, and a report naming the school your gift funded.
If a tax receipt matters to you, we would rather you waited and gave later than gave now on a false expectation. Ask us to let you know when registration is granted — donate@theavidfoundation.org.
Ways to give
Specific beats general.
A shelf, a collection, the systems, or a whole library. Choose the thing you want to exist, and we will tell you where it went.
- Most direct
Sponsor a library
By arrangement
One school library, complete and named in your honour, with a full report.
Fund a collection
By arrangement
The book stock for one school, selected with its teachers.
Adopt a shelf
By arrangement
One named shelf in a named school, with a photograph once it is full.
Fund the systems
By arrangement
Cataloguing, shelving and staff training for one library.
Give monthly
By arrangement
Funds maintenance, follow-up and restocking: what keeps a library open after the opening.
Institutional grants
By agreement
Multi-school programmes with formal monitoring and evaluation.
In-kind and pro bono
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Professional expertise in education, logistics, law, accounting or design.
Partner with us
For organisations, foundations and companies.
Multi-school programmes with formal reporting, monitoring and evaluation. We are set up for the due diligence: staged disbursement against milestones, written partner agreements, retained documentation and board-level authority over every allocation.
Tell us roughly what you are considering and we will reply with a real answer about fit, including if the answer is no.
Start a conversation
Thank you — we have your message.
We read everything that arrives and reply by email. If it is urgent, you can also reach us at partners@theavidfoundation.org.
In-kind and pro bono
We also need expertise.
A small organisation moves faster with the right professional in the room. If you have a few hours and skill in any of these, we would like to hear from you.
- Education and library science
- Logistics and procurement
- Law and governance
- Accounting and audit
- Design, photography and film
- Translation (Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa)