UNIK FOUNDATION

UNIK IMPACT FOUNDATION

it is all about opportunities!

ORGANISATION PROFILE

www. u n i k i m p a c t . f o u n d a t i o n

Location:

4 Garun Gabas Road, PMB 0020 Hadejia, Jigawa State, Nigeria.

Websites: unikimpact.foundation@gmail.com amirmuhammad@unikimpact.foundation jibringambo@unikimpact.foundation

Phone No. +234 092938535. +234 036351905. +234 061654847.

CONTENTS

Our Causes

Our Vision

Our Mission

Our Objectives

Core Values and Philosophy

The Unik's Origin

Background

Our Team

Founder's Message

Overview

Achievements

Unik Advocacy

Unik Health

Unik Medical Outreach

Unik Education

Unik Scholars

Unik Environment

Unik Relief

Unik Empowerment

Unik Girls

Unik Minds

OUR CAUSES

• Unik Advocacy and Research
• Unik Medical Outreach (Outreach Services and Programs)
• Unik Health
• Unik Education (All-Inclusive Education)
• Unik Scholars (Almajiri Education and Reorientation)
• Unik Environment (Green Projects)
• Unik Relief (Emergency Relief)
• Unik Empowerment (Youth Growth and Independence)
• Unik Girls (Girl Empowerment)

Unik Minds (Mental Wealth)

OUR VISION

Empowering vulnerable and deprived individuals and groups to achieve their full life potentials by enabling opportunities in one of the world's poorest regions.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to provide opportunities to deprived individuals and groups in education, basic health, economic and gender empowerment, environmental sustainability, and mentorship around our core values of self-discipline, dedication to duty, and compassion.

SOME OF OUR OBJECTIVES

To enhance opportunities for youths through speci�c interventions aimed at preparing for the future. To promote the culture of mentorship around our core values of dedication to duty, self-discipline, and empathy. To promote the spirit of compassion.

CORE VALUES AND PHILOSOPHY

Unik Impact Foundation is a non-governmental and non-pro�t organisation with core values around dedication to duty, selfdiscipline, and compassion. Our philosophy is that, even where opportunities abound, applying one’s self to achieve a successful existence is intricately linked to our dedication to duty and selfdiscipline. We accordingly seek to connect with the outlined problems of society through these values while engaging in compassionate activities that enable opportunities like medical outreaches, small community projects, youth empowerment, drug rehabilitation, guidance and counselling scholarships, upsetting medical bills, and environmental protection. The ultimate aim is to offer a mentorship platform around our core values while we provide as many compassionate services as possible to enable opportunities for multitudes.

THE UNIK'S ORIGIN

The name derives from Mallam Muhammad Adamu UNIK. He is the father of the founder and chairman of the foundation, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad. Mallam is an accomplished educationist and was earlier an ef�cient headmaster while the founder was in his formative years.

It was the environment dominated by Mallam’s overbearing traits of self-discipline, dedication to duty, obsession with education, and compassion (even to the environment), and how these values are observebly linked to enhanced life opportunities, are what nurtured, groomed, and mentored the young Nuruddeen. This unique IMPACT of Mallam Muhammad UNIK is what the Foundation seeks to harness and deploy through mentorship and compassionate activities that multiply opportunities across the community and beyond.

BACKGROUND

With its population of about 180 million, every �fth of an African is a Nigerian, and Northern Nigeria alone accounts for about 55% of the entire population.

According to World Bank statistics in 2017, Northern Nigeria has the highest number of children not going to school in the world! The girl child education, for example, is as low as 20% in the North East and 25% in the North West. Most of these children (especially the boys) run the streets away from their parents as itinerant Islamic school students (Almajiris) while they beg for food and basic sustenance.

Little wonder, therefore, out of the more than 100 million Nigerians living in absolute poverty, about two-thirds reside in the North. Besides high rates of maternal mortality, infant death, vaccine preventable diseases and disabilities from blindness, VVF and Poliomyelitis.

Additionally, over 500,000 bottles of codeine are consumed every day by young Nigerians across the country, same with the intake of tramadol, rohypnol, marijuana, and other opioids. All available and credible statistics have also decided that these drug abuse epidemics are also essentially a Northern problem.

It would take more than public sector efforts to address these endemic poverty, unemployment, poor literacy, disease, and destitution. Speci�c and deliberate actions would have to be deployed by communities, businesses, individuals, and families as well.

OUR TEAM

DR. NURUDDEEN MUHAMMAD

Chairman/Founder

Nuruddeen Muhammad is a clinician, diplomat, and entrepreneur with local public health and development consciousness. This grassroots orientation and global outlook from an extensive diplomatic exposure and diverse international policy experience as a former foreign minister, is re�ected in his determination to search for global solutions to local problems (and vice versa) through a new career quest in Global Health and Development.

AMIR MUHAMMAD HARBO

Executive & Admin Assistant

Amir Muhammad is a dedicated grassroots youth empowerment and development activist committed to leveraging scienti�c research, effective public policy, and multimedia technology to foster local prosperity. He gets his skills and expertise serving as a Legislative Internship Fellow at the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in the National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria. He is a graduate of English, and he aspires to emerge as a leading global expert in his chosen �eld, aiming to make signi�cant contributions to societal development and positive change.

DR. JIRBIL MUHAMMAD GAMBO

Programme Manager

Jibrin Gambo is a researcher, entrepreneur, environmental activist, and PhD scholar in Geospatial Engineering at the University Putra Malaysia (UPM). He specializes in geospatial analysis and modeling for socioenvironmental studies. Passionate about addressing local poverty, he utilizes innovative environmental solutions and sustained advocacy to foster positive mindset changes.

RENAME RENAME

Creative Consultant

Nuruddeen Muhammad is a clinician, diplomat, and entrepreneur with local public health and development consciousness. This grassroots orientation and global outlook from an extensive diplomatic exposure and diverse international policy experience as a former foreign minister, is re�ected in his determination to search for global solutions to local problems (and vice versa) through a new career quest in Global Health and Development.

FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:

Beacons of Opportunity and Hope

… It’s all about opportunities!

Opportunity is de�ned as "the time or set of circumstances that make it possible to do something.”.

My life is a story of opportunities that inspire hope. Those opportunities for me are the well-lit path filled with beacons of hope that guided and moulded the pleasant image I see in the mirror every morning.

Knowingly or not, exposure to those opportunities and, more importantly, taking advantage of them when I did, has taken me from my native Hadejia in Jigawa State, North Western Nigeria, to the sophisticated meeting rooms of the United Nations in New York City and every continent around the world.

Opportunity has first been my proud father (Muhammad Adamu UNIK), a successful headmaster who instilled in me the importance of education, dedication to one’s duties, patience, honesty, selfdiscipline, empathy, and the foundation of a strong moral disposition that helps in�uence every decision I make in life.

That opportunity has been the free and competitive public education system (from its regular LEA neighbourhood primary schools through the university to the elite postgraduate medical levels) that helped create the Dr. Nura that I am today.

Opportunity has also been that early exposure to politi c s and politi cal movements, which made me appreciate the power of a platform when used to drive ideologies that benefit all, most especially the downtrodden.

Opportunity is all about meeting Dr. Sule Lamido, who identi�ed these characters, level of education, and political awareness and resolved to nurture and expose me at a young age (34 years old) to governance and power at its highest and most sensitive levels.

Finally, opportunity is the recognition by presidents, prime ministers, top diplomats and politicians, intellectuals, international.

THANK GOD…

I HAD THE OPPORTUNITIES!

business leaders, and fellow doctors that I have had the privilege to stand before and show my worth due to my instilled determination to excel at whatever career path I have taken or role I have been assigned to. So, how did a boy from a humble beginning in Northern Nigeria, where millions of disadvantaged children already have no future by the time they are 10 years old, be able to rise to be the youngest Minister since the return of democracy in 1999, become a specialised medical professional, a peace broker at the global stage, and achieve some measure of grass-roots political recognition in today’s Nigeria, where such breaks are reserved for the “privileged few”? The answer is simple! The thought of me knowing that without these de�ning ‘OPPORTUNITIES’, my future could easily have been that of poverty surviving through other means or even being used as a tool for sinister plans by unpatriotic elements is the driving force behind the creation of the Unik Impact Foundation. A platform dedicated to multiplying opportunities in our society, especially for the youth, through support for their education, healthcare, and economic empowerment. Unik Impact also provides mentorship to our young people around the core values of dedication to duty, the importance of education, honesty, patience, self-discipline, and compassion through giving back to society, including the environment. The ultimate vision of the Foundation is to nurture and direct these impressionable minds towards their individual greatness. If I can be great, everyone can equally be great and even greater in their own ways. This philosophy is derived from the con�uence of values, experiences, and in�uences drawn from my life’s journey that have led me to believe that the surest way to give back is to be that beacon of opportunity and hope, like other factors were to me. That way, we hope to in�uence a multitude, one project at a time. A brand consultant once asked me how I pictured Unik Impact Foundation in my head? ….And I answered:

“It would be a group of people reaching down and pulling hundreds of other people up a slippery slope!” The best way to get ahead is to help others get ahead.

“It would be a group of people reaching down and pulling hundreds of other people up a slippery slope!” The best way to get ahead is to help others get ahead.

OVERVIEW

Unik Impact Foundation envisions a future where the youth are empowered, the vulnerable are protected, communities thrive, and sustainable development is achieved. The foundation is committed to implementing a multifaceted approach, addressing issues ranging from education and healthcare to skill development, environmental sustainability, and community engagement.

• Emergency Relief and Orphans Support: Establish Unik Relief. Welfare for orphans and PWDs
• Digital Inclusion: Launch digital literacy programs. Support digital skill development.

Partnerships and Collaborations: Strengthen existing partnerships. Forge new collaborations for expanded impact.

SOME OF OUR PARTNERS:

• Iya Hauwa Foundation
• Nigerian medical Association 1960
• Legasi ( Ladies Empowerment Goals and Support Initiative)
• Sawaba 104.9fm
• Mufrah Foundation

Milvelle Health Care Resources

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Built two blocks of three classrooms each at a community level in 2015 to increase access to education to deprived groups in Jigawa State, North West Nigeria.
• Built a 50-bed capacity double hospital ward ensuite with service of�ces in and toilets in 2015 inside Hadeja General Hospital in Jigawa State North West Nigeria. The objective is to increase the capacity of public health institutions, improve access to quality healthcare services in some of the most underserved communities in the world, and strengthen partnerships with the public sector.
• Conceived and �nanced a sustained advocacy through radio programs and jingles since 2018 to confront challenging mindsets towards a more positive attitude to pressing collective challenges of deforestation, promotion and prevention of diseases, illiteracy, poverty, gender inequality, drug abuse, and Good prevention and control to Jigawa, Yobe and Bauchi States.
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program with the technical support from the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Jigawa State chapter in Sule-Tankarkar, Jigawa State North West Nigeria in 2020
• Partnered with community level organisations to execute successful open tree planting campaigns in two selected vulnerable communities of Hadejia and Gumel in Jigawa State, North West Nigeria, in 2019. Thousands of trees were donated and planted alongside community leaders to promote sustainability and ownership
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach mission in 2019 with the technical support from the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Jigawa State chapter to the hard to reach community of Chukudo, in Birnin Kudu, Jigawa State, North West Nigeria
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program with a technical support from the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Jigawa State chapter following the outbreak of diseases at an Interally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp after a massive �ood in Auyo community of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria in 2018.
• Delivered humanitarian assistance in the form of food and household items to an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Auyo community of Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria following a massive �ood in the area in 2018
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program following the outbreak of diseases at an Interally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp after a massive �ood in Harbo community of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria in 2020.
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program following the outbreak of diseases at an Interally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Hadeja town after a massive �ood in Ganuwar Kuka community of Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria in 2020
• Purchase and donation of a Renal Haemodialysis Machine to the Haemodialysis Unit of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano State, North West Nigeria. This is to improve the capacity of the institution for service delivery and also deepen partnership with the public sector
• Provision of humanitarian assistance in the form of household items, foods, and embarkment support to dozens of communities in Hadeja, Auyo, Ka�n Hausa, Kirikasamma, and Mallam Madori local government areas of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria, following an unprecedented �ood that ravaged the area in 2022
• Recruitment and payment salaries for two teachers (arithmetic and english) for a community school in Hadeja Local Government Area of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria, in 2022. Status is ongoing
• Enrollment and total sponsorship of �fty orphans (25 each of males and females) into a community primary school in Hadeja Local Government Area of Jigawa State North West Nigeria in 2022. Status is ongoing
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program following the outbreak of diseases at Unik Community of Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria in 2022, when the community was completely isolated following massive �oods that surrounded the entire community from all directions
• Planned, organised, and funded a medical outreach program following the outbreak of diseases at Baturiya Community of Kirikasamma Local Government Area of Jigawa State, North West Nigeria in 2022, when the community was completely isolated following massive �oods that cut all major access roa

Financial assistance to underprivileged individuals to upset medical bills, pay school fees, and empowerment grants to most especially women and the youths.

FUTURE PLANS

The Foundation plans to organise a community mobile telephone based drug addiction treatment in Jigawa and Kano States. We are also poised to provide a 'UnikSpace' in Hadejia, Jigawa State, which will serve as a dedicated drug free community safe space to promote youth mentorship, psychological and economic empowerment, gender fairness and independence most especially among teenage girls and divorcees, and safety and con�dentiality to speak.

THE UNIK IMPACT FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTES RELIEF MATERIALS TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN JIGAWA

On October 27, 2018, the Unik Impact Foundation participated in a day-long compassionate gesture to the communities effected by the ood in Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

About two months earlier, ood waters had ravaged most of the communities around Auyo town and a few others in Kan Hausa and Miga, with hundreds crowded in makeshif camps facing an acute shortage of food and other household items. Items distributed to hundreds of beneciaries include various food items, mats, and blankets.