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Smart Aid Initiative

Empowering Futures One Community at a Time

We work directly with communities to unlock potential, nurture talent, and create pathways to opportunity, ensuring individuals have the skills, confidence, and support they need to shape better futures for themselves and those around them.

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Who We Are

A young person’s background should never limit their future. This belief drives Smart Aid Initiative work, a youth- and women-led civil society organisation founded in 2017 and registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission in 2020.

We work alongside young people across Nigeria, particularly girls, young women, and persons with disabilities whose opportunities are constrained by poverty, conflict, or exclusion. Our work connects education, digital inclusion, civic participation, and gender justice to help young people learn, earn, live safely, and influence decisions that shape their lives.

Communities lead the way, their experiences inform our programmes and priorities shape our advocacy. Together, we remove barriers, nurture emerging leaders, and expand opportunities while challenging the policies and practices that sustain exclusion or keep opportunities out of reach of young people.

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Our Partners

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NEAR Foundation logo
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Malala Fund logo
UNFPA logo
UNICEF logo
Luminate logo
YDC logo
NEAR Foundation logo
Brave logo
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Our Approach

Education
Pillar 01

Education

Inclusive Learning & Capacity Building

We work to ensure that underserved children and young people can access, remain in, and complete quality education. We support learning, strengthen teachers’ capacity, and advocate for inclusive education policies, with particular attention to girls, children with disabilities, and communities affected by conflict and displacement.

What people are saying

Discover the stories that inspire change and highlight the impact of our initiatives.

“We have been displaced here in this host community, Saminaka, for one year now without any resources to enroll our children in school or start a business. I am beyond happy to see my son enrolled in school and to have received empowerment to start a business. May God bless Smart Aid Initiative.”

Education4All Beneficiary

Saminaka Host Community

Education4All

“My experience with DigitHer is so amazing, I am glad I have met three sets of people: the mentors, facilitators, and the amazing young Arewa women. I am very impressed about this program and I hope to join more of these initiatives from Smart Aid Initiative.”

DigitHer Beneficiary

Digital Inclusion Cohort

DigitHer

“The past three days have been very interesting on the course on female genital mutilation. The take home for me is learning the terms, understanding the punishment, and the way forward to eliminate female genital mutilation. Thank you Smart Aid Initiative for hosting this capacity building.”

Jiki Na Haki Na Beneficiary

Gender Justice & Safeguarding

Jiki Na Haki Na

“The Equal TES workshop was an eye-opener for me. Before attending, I had heard about AI but had not really engaged with it. This workshop showed me how much I can actually do with this technology. I can now plan my lessons, set exam questions, prepare marking schemes, and reduce the challenges I have been facing in my work. I now realize that I have a practical tool to support my teaching.”

Equal TES Beneficiary

AI & Teacher Capacity Workshop

Equal TES

“We have been displaced here in this host community, Saminaka, for one year now without any resources to enroll our children in school or start a business. I am beyond happy to see my son enrolled in school and to have received empowerment to start a business. May God bless Smart Aid Initiative.”

Education4All Beneficiary

Saminaka Host Community

Education4All

“My experience with DigitHer is so amazing, I am glad I have met three sets of people: the mentors, facilitators, and the amazing young Arewa women. I am very impressed about this program and I hope to join more of these initiatives from Smart Aid Initiative.”

DigitHer Beneficiary

Digital Inclusion Cohort

DigitHer

“The past three days have been very interesting on the course on female genital mutilation. The take home for me is learning the terms, understanding the punishment, and the way forward to eliminate female genital mutilation. Thank you Smart Aid Initiative for hosting this capacity building.”

Jiki Na Haki Na Beneficiary

Gender Justice & Safeguarding

Jiki Na Haki Na

“The Equal TES workshop was an eye-opener for me. Before attending, I had heard about AI but had not really engaged with it. This workshop showed me how much I can actually do with this technology. I can now plan my lessons, set exam questions, prepare marking schemes, and reduce the challenges I have been facing in my work. I now realize that I have a practical tool to support my teaching.”

Equal TES Beneficiary

AI & Teacher Capacity Workshop

Equal TES

“We have been displaced here in this host community, Saminaka, for one year now without any resources to enroll our children in school or start a business. I am beyond happy to see my son enrolled in school and to have received empowerment to start a business. May God bless Smart Aid Initiative.”

Education4All Beneficiary

Saminaka Host Community

Education4All

“My experience with DigitHer is so amazing, I am glad I have met three sets of people: the mentors, facilitators, and the amazing young Arewa women. I am very impressed about this program and I hope to join more of these initiatives from Smart Aid Initiative.”

DigitHer Beneficiary

Digital Inclusion Cohort

DigitHer

“The past three days have been very interesting on the course on female genital mutilation. The take home for me is learning the terms, understanding the punishment, and the way forward to eliminate female genital mutilation. Thank you Smart Aid Initiative for hosting this capacity building.”

Jiki Na Haki Na Beneficiary

Gender Justice & Safeguarding

Jiki Na Haki Na

“The Equal TES workshop was an eye-opener for me. Before attending, I had heard about AI but had not really engaged with it. This workshop showed me how much I can actually do with this technology. I can now plan my lessons, set exam questions, prepare marking schemes, and reduce the challenges I have been facing in my work. I now realize that I have a practical tool to support my teaching.”

Equal TES Beneficiary

AI & Teacher Capacity Workshop

Equal TES

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