14 years of Inspiring Change through Learning. We Give Books
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Disability-Inclusive Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation was established in 2010.
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We are a non-profit, social impact organization that is learning-oriented, disability-inclusive, and youth-centric. We are committed to inspiring change through learning so that our beneficiaries can have access to opportunities to learn, grow, change and own their future. KIR Foundation as a nongovernmental organization (RC 916541) with a tax-exemption status commenced operations in Lagos in 2011. The organization currently has its headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, a Liaison Officer in Lagos, and partnerships with various non-profit organizations and coalitions. KIR Foundation addresses educational and socio-economic issues with the purpose of inspiring change through learning. The organization gives books, teaches skills, and advocates the rights of its beneficiaries, especially those with disabilities with the objective of breaking the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, and inequality and replacing it with a new cycle of empowerment, opportunity, ethics, and transformative servant leadership. All KIR Foundation’s projects under the following thematic areas; Education, Advocacy, Capacity, and Sustainable Development are strategically aligned to promoting and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations; especially SDGs 1,4,5,8,10, and 17; as a result, KIR Foundation was one of the few registered Hubs spread across 44 countries that participated in the 2018 Global People’s Summit. In the past 13 years, KIR Foundation has worked with over 195 institutions in Nigeria (Lagos State, Rivers State, Imo State, Abia State, Adamawa State, Niger State, Kwara State, Kano State, Akwa Ibom State, Plateau State, Bornu State, Calabar State, Delta State, Enugu State, Gombe State, Oyo State, Imo State, Kaduna State, Kogi State, Nasarawa State, Ogun State, Ondo State, Yobe State, Sokoto State, Zamfara State, Benue State, Ebonyi State, Jigawa State, Taraba State, Bauchi State, Abia State, Bayelsa State, Katsina State, Kebbi State, Osun State, Abuja the capital of Nigeria and Ghana). The organization has reached more than 90,797 people, we have trained more than 1,566 youth in various market-relevant skills (Digital, Vocational, and Soft skills) and donated over 46,421 books, numerous educational aids, starter kits, and farming implements, and published; ‘The Young Leader’s Guide’, a leadership manual for young people and ‘It’s About Empathy’, an Explanatory Guide to The Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities Prohibition Act 2018. To commemorate the KIR Foundation's 11th Anniversary, the organization initiated the KIR Foundation Book Drive Campaign. KIR Foundation is working with stakeholders in the corporate, government, and social sectors and a team of volunteers to establish 100 Reading Corners in public/community primary schools in the 36 States of Nigeria and Abuja to close an existing Reading Gap that has been further widened by the closure of schools in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. So far, 85 Reading Corners have been set up in 36 states. KIR Foundation’s short-term goal is to put 80,000 books in the hands of underserved communities that do not have access to books, train 2000 young people in market-relevant skills and provide business linkages for them by the year 2025. Kindly check the website www.kirfoundation.org and social media handles (; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked-In, and YouTube Channel) for more details. The KIR Foundation has received the following awards;
> IDPWD Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Society- 2014
> Rotaract Club of Port Harcourt Township Humanitarian Award - 2014
> National Association for Exceptional Children (NAEC) Service Award – 2015
> SWAGTv Community Service Award - 2015
> NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women Award of Recognition as Selfless NGO - 2016
> Rotary Club Service Project Partner Certificate of Recognition – 2017
> AIESEC University of Port-Harcourt Partner Certificate of Recognition - 2018
> Rotary Club Service Project Partner Award of Recognition – 2019
> EDU Festival Prestigious Award of Recognition for Contribution to Educational Advancement – 2019
> Certificate of Recognition by the Kano State Government on the SDGs - 2020
> Top Charity Nigeria Award by MoneyTransfers.com - 2021
> Award of Excellence from PIND Foundation - 2021
> YALI Rivers State Hub Certificate of Stewardship - 2022
> YALI Rivers State Hub Award of Partnership - 2023
04/11/2025
Our project campaign is still on!🎒
In KIR Foundation, we believe every child deserves the tools to learn, dream, and thrive. 🌟
In June, we donated 214 books, including 72 storybooks, to children like Ammiel, in Mubi Hills, Adamawa State.
402 pupils in Christ Disciple Mission (CDM) Primary Schools still need our help.
📚 Your support matters!
A gift of $7 or more will provide essential writing materials for Joyce and 359 other children, giving them the opportunity to return to school ready to learn and succeed. 💫
💚 This , we invite you to partner with us once again.
Together, we can ensure that every child has the learning tools they need to build a brighter future.
Let’s keep making education accessible, one child at a time. ✨
03/11/2025
💻 It’s at the KIR Foundation Digital Hub! 🌟
Meet Eneawaji Frank, one of our newest learners who’s making incredible progress! ✨
Before joining the Digital Hub, Eneawaji didn’t even know how to turn on a computer, now, he can type, create folders, and use Microsoft Word confidently! 💪🏾💻
His story is proof that with access to digital education, young people can break barriers, build confidence, and embrace technology with pride. 🌍
In KIR Foundation, we are empowering youth with essential to thrive in the 21st century.
💚 Thank you to our donors and volunteers for making this transformation possible!
👉 Kindly Visit www.kirfoundation.org or send us a direct message to volunteer or partner. Let’s build a world where every child can access digital opportunities! 💫
💡 Sponsor a Learner: ₦10,000 – GTB 0052683160
💪 Volunteer: bit.ly/KIRF11.
03/11/2025
It’s another !
In Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation, we believe that quality education democratises wealth and it is a proven pathway to social mobility for underserved communities. That is why we are committed to creating awareness about amazing opportunities that will give not only our beneficiaries, but our followers access to opportunities that will lead to growth and financial independence.
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Kindly let us know in the comment section below if this article is helpful and what course you plan to commence! We are rooting for you and waiting to hear your success story!
03/11/2025
It’s 🚀
After completing Basic Computer Appreciation during the mid-term break with our amazing facilitator; Great Thompson, our Digital Hub members are now diving into Web Design and Navigation Menus with our volunteer Instructor Precious! 🎨💡
Today, 20 young learners including 13- year- old Wisdom will explore:
🔹 Styling links & creating navigation bars with CSS
🔹 Building a 3-page mini-site (Home, About, Contact)
🔹 Designing a “Poster Page” with colours, borders and backgrounds 🖌🌈
In Keeping It Real Foundation, we are helping young people like Wisdom gain digital confidence, creativity, and practical web skills. Wisdom and his peers are now creating, and contributing to the digital world. 🌍
👩🏾💻 Support the next generation of web creators:
💬 How can you join us?
You can:
✅ Donate software or computers – Direct Message or visit, www.kirfoundation.org 📚
✅ Sponsor a learner with ₦30k - GTB – 0052683160 🏫
✅ Volunteer as a facilitator- bit.ly/KIRF11 💪
👉🏽 Join us this to empower more children like Wisdom.
Together we can raise tech innovators, one learner at a time!
02/11/2025
to our inspiring & facilitator, John Best Uche ()! 🎉💙
Your commitment to ’s mission continues to inspire positive change. 🌍
May your day be filled with fond memories & the years ahead with God's blessings & success! 🥂
01/11/2025
It's world Grace Alawa's Birthday!
The team celebrates our amazing facilitator & donor, !🎉
Your passion for empowering the next generation inspires us all.
We wish you a joyful year ahead filled with love, laughter, & meaningful impact!
You are !
01/11/2025
to our generous donor & friend, Andy Odeh!🎉💙
Your kindness & unwavering support continue to transform lives through ’s initiatives.
We celebrate you today & wish you an amazing year filled with abundance, joy, & success! 🥂
01/11/2025
💙 It’s ! 💙
Welcome to November – Disability Awareness Month! ♿️✨
A time to celebrate the abilities, achievements, and voices of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) while challenging stereotypes and building inclusion. 🌍
🤔 Think you know about disabilities? Let’s find out!
Did you know that according to the World Health Organization, 1 in 6 people globally over 1.3 billion individuals, while in Nigeria over 35 million live with some form of disability? Yet, millions still face barriers to education, employment, and accessibility every day. 🚫📚💼
What is disability?
A disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. Some are visible like cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. Others, like autism, ADHD, OCD, or Down syndrome, may be invisible but are equally real. People may be born with disabilities or acquire them through accidents, illness, or life events. You might notice differences in how they communicate, learn, or move, but these differences do not define their worth or potential.
In this insightful video, Timothy Rohrer of Tips4Inclusion, a passionate disability self-advocate and educator, helps us understand how empathy and awareness can break down these barriers and foster inclusion. 🎥💡
In KIR Foundation, we believe that empathy inspires action, and action drives inclusion! Together, we can create communities that value everyone’s potential and ability. 🙌
📘 Learn more in our advocacy guide:
👉 https://bit.ly/KIRItsAboutEmpathy
💬 Join the conversation!
How can YOU show empathy and support disability inclusion this month? Share your thoughts below 👇
01/11/2025
🌟 , Supporters and ! 🌟
We have exciting news!
In October, we continued to spread the joy of reading and learning! 💚
We partnered with our dedicated implementing partner, Ladies On A Mission (LOAM), led by its visionary Executive Director, Bukola Rachel Oladiti and set up the KIR Foundation Book Drive Campaign 92nd Reading Corner in JIL Missionary School, Akekaka, Mogaji, Ibadan, Oyo State! 🌍✨
The 50 underserved children and young people in the community like Ayo and their teachers will get a bookshelf filled with 164 inspiring books to ignite a love for reading, learning, and dreaming big! 🌱📖
Also, in Port-Harcourt, our 10 committed and dynamic volunteers including Tolu read to 1,152 children and we gifted 106 books to our underserved young Readers like Boma in 12 public schools.
Since 2021, we have:
📚 Donated 20,512 books
👧🏾 Read to 46,133 pupils
Every book shared and story read brings us closer to a world where every child has the opportunity to learn, dream, and thrive. 🌍💛
👉 Passionate about literacy, education, and inclusion?
Join us to create more learning opportunities for underserved children like Ayo in Ibadan and Boma in Port-Harcourt. Together we can give them a brighter future and raise a generation of literate leaders in Nigeria.
📩 Send a direct message to volunteer or partner!
👉 Join our community of over 375+ Changemakers!
📩 Sign up to volunteer: bit.ly/KIRF11
01/11/2025
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We are delighted to share our October Impact Report with you. 🌍✨
Your unwavering support enabled Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation to continue advancing inclusive learning and empowerment across communities.
Here is what we achieved together in October:
💻 40 youth trained in Digital Skills - building their confidence and employability.
📚 Set up our 92nd Reading Corner in JIL Missionary School, Akekaka, Mogaji, Ibadan, Oyo State, - promoting literacy and a love for reading in partnership with Ladies On A Mission (LOAM).
🎯 2 Guide canes donated on White Cane Day to 2 young ladies with vision impairment - enhancing accessibility and inclusion.
🏠 455 visits to our inclusive Community Centre - creating a safe space for growth and collaboration.
👥 888 beneficiaries reached through 9 impactful projects in Ibadan, Oyo State, and Port Harcourt, Rivers State - providing opportunities for a brighter future.
Every number tells a story of transformation of young people gaining digital skills, children accessing learning resources, and persons with disabilities empowered to thrive. 📘
In KIR Foundation, we believe that learning drives sustainable change. Together with partners and supporters like you, we are building an inclusive future where everyone can learn, grow, and succeed and have brighter futures! 🌍💛
👉 We invite individuals and organizations passionate about education, empowerment, and inclusion to partner with us.
💬 How can you support us?
You can:
✅ Donate books or educational materials – Direct Message or visit, www.kirfoundation.org 📚
✅ Sponsor a project or a beneficiary- GTB – 0052683160 🏫
✅ Volunteer or become an implementing partner - bit.ly/KIRF11 💪
01/11/2025
🌟 “Nothing happens unless YOU do!” – Bitebo Gogo 💪
Welcome to November!
It’s the month of new opportunities, fresh energy, and unstoppable momentum! 🍂🚀
Has the year been tough? 😔
Have your plans failed more than they have succeeded? 💭
Are you tempted to give up because the finish line feels so far away? 🛑
Pause. Breathe. Now listen! You have come too far to quit. 🌈
Every challenge you have faced this year has been shaping your strength, resilience, and vision. 💪
In KIR Foundation, we believe that consistent action and purpose-driven commitment create lasting impact. 💛
So, never give up, as you journey through this month, keep showing up, keep believing, and keep doing the work, because transformation happens when passion meets persistence.! 👣
✨ Remember:
Success rarely happens overnight, it happens because you kept going when quitting seemed easier.
You have still got time to turn things around, make impact, and finish 2025 strong! 💥
Let’s make this month count.
✅ Refocus on your goals
✅ Take action daily
✅ Believe in your potential
✅ Celebrate your progress.
We are rooting for you every step of the way! 💙
💭 What one thing will you do differently this November to move closer to your dream?
Share in the comments and let’s inspire one another! 🌍💫
31/10/2025
🎬 It's ! 🍿
Today’s movie, 'The Miracle Worker,' is the true story of the determined teacher who helped Helen Keller overcome deafness & blindness to learn to communicate.
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In the wake of the Boko Haram attack on the villages in Mubi Local Government Area in Adamawa in North-Eastern Nigeria 2014, Polycarp and his colleagues who are teachers in the remote villages that share a boundary with Cameroun, had to run away to secure their lives. On their return, they saw first hand the devastation to their houses and sadly to school structures, which led to low attendance and retention as the children had to be taught under trees. KIR Foundation decided to step in and rebuild the lives of the children and their communities through education. Kindly check our project reports on https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-270-children-in-northern-nigeria/updates/
Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation was established in 2010 as a non-profit and nongovernmental organization (RC 916541). KIR Foundation has been in operation since 2011 as a disability-inclusive organization with the primary objective of ‘inspiring change through learning’. KIR Foundation exists to transform the lives of vulnerable children, youth, persons with disabilities, prison inmates, women and our local communities through Education, Advocacy, Capacity and Sustainable Development Programs. KIR Foundation has its headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, a Liaison Office in Lagos and partnerships with various non-profit organizations and coalitions.
In the past 7 years, KIR Foundation has worked with 84 institutions in Nigeria (Adamawa State, Edo State, Imo State, Lagos State, Niger State, Plateau State, Rivers State, and Abuja the capital of Nigeria), making a difference in the lives of more than 18,238 beneficiaries. We have donated over 15,251 books, various educational supplies (exercise books, stationaries and learning aids), starter kits, farming implements and published ‘The Young Leader’s Guide; a leadership manual for young people. Kindly check our website for more details; www.kirfoundation.org.
Our vision - To raise innovative leaders committed to lifelong learning to transform their communities.
Our Mission: KIR Foundation is a Disability-Inclusive, Education, Advocacy, Capacity and Sustainable Development organisation, committed to inspiring life long learning and creating transformative change in the lives of vulnerable children, youth, persons with disabilities, prison inmates, women and our local communities.
TARGET BENEFICIARIES
Most deprived, marginalized and vulnerable groups in the society are our primary stakeholders. They include the following;
Vulnerable children - in orphanages and homes for street children who receive educational support and health insurance through us.
Youth - in and out of school youth with and without disabilities benefit from our after school academic projects, career guidance and counselling initiative, leadership, ICT and vocational training projects.
Persons with Disabilities - we raise awareness on physical, social, cultural, and communication barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from participating in society; promoting their inclusion in society. We develop their social and educational capacity so that they are included in all developmental issues.
Prison Inmates - we support prison adult literacy programs by donating books and educational supplies. We believe that education is an opportunity and effective way of sustainably preparing them for success outside of prison.
Women – Through our entrepreneurial project with rural farmers, women are supported to become key agents of positive change in the agricultural sector. We work with poor rural female farmers to promote household empowerment as a direct or indirect objective.
Local Communities – KIR Foundation organizes projects in our local communities which are targeted at disadvantaged groups to strengthen and build capacity especially as regards education. We partner with community-based nonprofits to ensure stakeholder engagement and sustainability.
In 2011; Donated 1672 Books, Impacted 130 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 878 Youth
In 2012; Donated 3710 Books, Impacted 82 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 989 Youth
In 2013; Donated 2390 Books, Impacted 18 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 4000 Youth
In 2014; Donated 1470 Books, Impacted 338 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 3728 Youth
In 2015; Donated 2948 Books, Impacted 726 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 4169 Youth
In 2016; Donated 1345 Books, Impacted 430 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 2236 Youth
In 2017; Donated 2001 Books, Impacted 826 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 2970 Youth
In 2018; Donated 6932 Books, Impacted 846 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 7220 Youth
In 2019; Donated 6978 Books, Impacted 866 Children with Learning Projects and Trained 7742 Youth
MILESTONES AND AWARDS
• Humanitarian Award by Rotaract Club Town Branch 2014
• Humanitarian Award by Association for Exceptional Children Practitioners Nigeria 2015
• Humanitarian Award by SWAGTV 2015
• Selfless Service Award by NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women 2016
• Service Project Award by Rotary Club of Port Harcourt GRA District 9140 2017
• AIESEC University of Port-Harcourt Partners Certificate of Recognition 2018
• Partnership with @PINDFoundation to train 75 youth with and without disabilities in Digital Skills through the Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) project.
• Partnered with Bonny Youth Resource Centre to host The Young Leadership Academy with 112 students and 5 teachers from 15 schools in attendance.
• Hosted the UN Global People's Summit in Port Harcourt.
• Received a Service Award from Rotary Club GRA District 9140 and a Humanitarian award from Education Fair Initiative.
• Certificate of appreciation by Rotary Club of Port Harcourt GRA District 9140 2019
• 4 Global Giving Badges for Top Ranked Organisation, Vetted Organisation, Staff Favorite Organisation and Effective Organisation.
