"Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria"

- Global Fund

According to US President, Barrack Obama, malaria is a disease that doesn’t have to take lives. That therefore accounts for why on the day of his inauguration, he declared his committement to "step up US focus on prevention and treatment of malaria around the world".

Come November 26 - 27, 2009 in the city of Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, the African Youth Development Foundation will roll out the drums in celebration of its 10 long years of changing the lives of young people, children and women in Nigeria and Africa at large!

The event is scheduled to hold between November 26 - 27, 2009 at the Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria and Her Excellency, Lady Ada Okwuonu, the Deputy Governor of Imo State, is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour.

At the event, the Board of Trustees, Management staff and all members of AFRYDEF will have the honour to present their Special International Awards to distinguished philanthropists and members of the Nigerian and African society.

We wish to appeal that you kindly accept to sponsor a child for the African Youth Development Foundation (AFRYDEF).

In Africa, many families live under the poverty line of USD 1 per day and therefore cannot afford to feed their children. Think of it, how would these poor families then be able to pay for their children’s medical needs as well as provide them with the basic education needed to empower them for life?  

These uneducated and unhealthy children therefore grow up into adulthood, get married early and begin to make their own large families (of at least ten children each) like their parents due to idleness and frustration.

The cycle of poverty continues . . !

“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
Powers that would astonish him,
That he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused
and put into action.”
- ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Every achiever and in fact every man that ever mattered on this earth had a crave for knowledge. They were ardent readers of books, which rightly explains why “readers are said to be leaders!”