Empowering minds.Advancing knowledge.Transforming futures.
The AMIR Fund bridges gaps in education, healthcare and technology, and empowers communities across Nigeria. We back outstanding students and pioneering research, and help families in need build a livelihood.
Four ways we change lives
Every programme runs through a signed partnership, with published criteria and payments made directly to the institution or the person supported.
Fund research
The Professor Adebayo Shittu Research Award backs molecular biology research and the lab behind it at Obafemi Awolowo University.
Research Award →Reward excellence
Annual Prize Giving Days at African Church Grammar School honour top students, a teacher voted by students, and achievement in sport.
School Prizes →Train future doctors
Up to 20 full-tuition scholarships for high-achieving medical and dental students from low-income households.
Medical Scholarship →Empower communities
Tools, stock and direct support so families living in poverty can start or grow a livelihood.
Social Intervention →Two students who were given a chance. One promise to give back.
The AMIR Fund was founded and funded by Ridwan and Mariam Sorunke. Both began their education in Abeokuta and went on to Nigeria's leading universities and to Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago, helped along the way by teachers, mentors and support that came at the right time.
- Fund for Education, Science and Technology
- Fund for Social Intervention, Humanity and Emergency
“I was once where you are, and someone believed in me. Now, I believe in you.”
Ridwan Sorunke, Founder and TrusteeLatest news
AMIR Fund Launches New Website and Strengthens Its Programme Team
AnnouncementAMIR Fund Opens Applications for New Medical Scholarship Program for Future Doctors
ScholarshipsAMIR Fund Celebrates Academic Excellence at Second Annual Prize Giving Day in Abeokuta
SchoolsAMIR Fund and Dawah Front Equip 50 More People to Earn a Living in Abeokuta
CommunityAMIR Fund Founders Commit at Least 2.5% of Their Annual Income to Those in Need
AnnouncementCareful with every Naira entrusted to us
Our endowment is held by an independent corporate trustee, First Trustees Nigeria Limited. Only the returns are spent, so every prize and grant can recur year after year.
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