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Woman of the Sun: We want to touch one million children by 2020 –Tope Fajingbesi



Ganiyah Tope Fajingbesi, the host of Impact Africa and Coordinating Trustee of United for Kids Foundation (UKF), shocked her friends when she decisively quit her six-figure job in the United States and embarked on a spiritual journey to Cancun, Mexico. She went on a solo vacation but six days later, returned with a manuscript of a book, titled, Love in Cancun. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the United States, Tope disclosed to Daily Sun the target of the UKF to touch the lives of one million Nigerian schoolchildren in various states by 2020.
At what point did you embrace the task of providing support for Nigerian school children? What were the motivations at that time?
I didn’t think about intervening in the education sector till I got to the University of Lagos (UNILAG). Sometime in 1996/97, there was this guy from Imo State, who was featured in the defunct Fame Magazine at that time. The guy was playing football with his friends and the ball hit him in the mouth. He suffered internal bleeding. I remember going round the university and the hostels then with the picture of the young guy, asking for support. I took the money to Fame Magazine to deliver to the victim. That introduced me to the art of crowd funding. I was able to raise a lot of money by going from door to door. Luckily for me, I graduated and started working. I had some like-minded persons, both Christians and Muslims. They were really passionate about their faith. We came together and decided to start this art of crowd funding through the United for Kids Foundation (UKF) and help children to get a better shot at life. That was in 2002.

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