WHO WE ARE
we believe that real change comes from within communities
Who We Are?
Daruwana Development Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating sustainable change in communities across the globe. We work at the intersection of poverty alleviation, environmental restoration, and leadership training, striving to empower local communities to achieve lasting transformation.
Our Theory Of Change
Transforming Through Empowerment
At Daruwana Development Foundation, our Theory of Change is rooted in the understanding that poverty is a multifaceted problem that requires holistic and sustainable solutions. We recognize that poverty goes beyond just a lack of resources; it encompasses a cycle of poor leadership, systemic failures, and unconscious ignorance of effective systems and best practices.
Our approach addresses these root causes by empowering communities to recognize and utilize their own strengths through the ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) Approach and Appreciative Inquiry, which we employ as our primary instruments of change.
- Problem - All round Poverty and its consequences
- Direct Causes - Unconscious ignorance of systems and best practices
- Indirect Causes - Poor Leadership behaviors, systems & institutions The Causes of the Direct Causes
- The Solution - ABCD Approach/Appreciative Inquiry as our Instrument of Change
Our Core Values
The beliefs and ideas that drive the work we do
- EGO is our ENEMY, AND you'll see the evidence in our everyday living. When it comes to any consideration, we use research, data, and an outside the box perspective to provide an objective point of view.
- Service is our keyword to EMPOWERMENT. We are the catalyst who provide resources, tools, and knowledge to establish success till tomorrow
- People FOCUSED - People are our greatest asset. From A-Z, it people, people and people first. We keep human dignity in service to humanity.
- We are connected HEART to HEART - Openly sharing of ideas, trusts, knowledge, mistakes, hearts, is the secret to our synergy
- CURIOUS learning is natural to us - It's an unconscious realization to us that we are natural lifelong learners
- It's FUN with us - We can so laugh together and relax together. In our relaxed state, we are more likely to share ideas and do our best work.
- Waking up grateful everyday - Everyday is a free gift loaded with blessings. No matter the challenges of the day, we choose to focus on the good side of the day.
Our Locally-Led Model
Community-based strategy
Community based strategy empowering (building the community together) low income earners and peasant farmers by a relational process that is focused on reconciling their core relationships (with selves, and with one another, and creation) instead of just We become a catalyst to a community of interest first who then identify community assets and use those assets to solve community identified problems
Green Co-operative Societies
We catalyze to establish local organizations as self- reliant groups which we grow into GREEN COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES to improve local resources (stewards of Creation) and as savings for change groups.
The Women Empowerment
- Women by women for women specialized synergy toward empowering women as small scale farmers. These Women we have found, though materially poor, are rich on the inside to pass through the burden of bearing the traumas of the African woman in agriculture, in passing through loss of children due to diseases, epidemics, and in being the beast of burden. This further expands as Girl Child Education A Girls in Science & Mathematics program that nurtures the vulnerable African Girl into full Girls’ in Leadership adventures.
AS A SOCIAL ENTREPRISE
DOING GOOD WHILE DOING BUSINESS
We are a Social enterprise. Our social enterprise is committed to achieving this double bottom line—our Social Mission and the Financial Objective.
- To us this means we are a nonprofit business or revenue-generating NGO founded to create positive social impact while operating with reference to a financial bottom line. We frame our financial bottom line as a by-product to our social impact and not otherwise
- Our Financial Objectives do not diversify grant funds, no matter the small percentage, to making a profit, but only intended mainly as a sustainability strategy for the institution. By this Nonprofit sustainability strategy, we mean seizing our nonprofits’ ability to generate income to support our social programs without continued reliance only on donor funding, like establishing greenhouse farms businesses, consultancies’ services and sales of our books or resources. Thus we are a nonprofit organization that generates income by selling goods, commercializing services, or leveraging assets (tangible and intangible) to support our social service activities: We charge fees for some of our face to face or online trainings and consultancy services.
- As Nonprofit Practitioners who are accomplished in executing social programs this means integrating business skills, practices and entrepreneurship into some of our operations.
Meet Our Team
Wumani Daniel Daku
He is a graduate of Agricultural Engineering from federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership, Colorado Springs, USA. He is a Certified Forest Garden Trainer. A certified Success Ambassador (Entrepreneurship Coach) with Interweave Solutions U.S A. He is passionate for…
Victoria Dukwo David
BSc. Economics: University of Abuja, Nigeria & ND. Computer Science A Humanitarianist to the core She has above 10yrs experience in development of women in rural communities vickydav@yahoo.com
Comfort Timothy
She is a retired Procurement Officer with working experience of 30 years with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Nigeria. She has a B. A. Education Degree and Masters in Adult Education from the University of Lagos. She is also a certified U.K. Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply…
Rhoda Emmanuel
A professional secretary. Non tiring. Her pen writes with passion. She is the epitome of virtue and believes that women can make it. She fighters for justice for women. She rose from grass to grace.
Deborah Isaac
BSc. Human Resource Management(JTPS) A Gender Advocate: she has above 7yrs experience in Gender Advocacy. An Agripreneur She releases her passion in serving humanity with DDF Isaacdeborah08@gmail.com
Wabare Jacob Sunday
He is a very astute media developer. A passionate youth for service of humanity. jacobwabare @gmail.com
Erdoo Peters
BSc. Mass Communication: Benue State University, Nigeria She has above 8 years’ experience in advocacy against gender based violence Peterloveth077@gmail.com
Joy Williams
A law student of university of Abuja. A Skilled and passionate counsellor. She uses her personal experiences to lighten the hearts of women in trauma and pains. She is an example of a lady who can rise from dust to grace
Victoria Gbazhe Gwatana
Bsc. Statistics. Data driven and passionate for women inclusion. An epitome of loyalty the cause of women.She has served very many years until now
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