A $600 million commitment
to rebuild lives across Nigeria.
DTTASA is a registered Nigerian non-profit channelling the strength of the global diaspora into measurable change at home — in education, healthcare, water, care, and youth opportunity.
This work begins where headlines end.
There is a child in Nigeria right now who will not survive the week — not because the world lacks the knowledge to save them, but because the systems that should have reached them never did.
There is a girl who will not return to school this term. A mother walking three hours for water that will still make her family sick. A boy with autism whose family has been told there is no place for him. An elder who outlived their children and now lives without care.
These are not statistics to us. They are the people Project New Dawn exists to reach — not with relief that ends when cameras leave, but with permanent infrastructure: schools that stay open, clinics that stay staffed, water systems that keep flowing, homes that keep caring, training that keeps lifting.
DTTASA is a Nigerian-registered non-profit built by members of the global diaspora who refuse to accept that distance is an excuse for absence. Every pound, dollar, and naira given here passes through governance designed to a standard that should be normal but rarely is — and that is the standard Project New Dawn will hold.
The numbers behind the urgency.
Independent figures from leading international authorities — the scale Project New Dawn is built to confront.
The five pillars of Project New Dawn.
Each pillar is permanent infrastructure — not relief, not events. Built to last, governed to last, measured to last.
Free schools & special education centres
Schools that do not charge a single naira for entry, taught by trained teachers, including dedicated centres for children with autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, and other learning differences who are currently turned away from mainstream schooling.
Quality healthcare facilities
Clinics and small hospitals built in underserved communities, staffed with trained Nigerian medical professionals, equipped to handle maternal care, child immunisation, chronic disease management, and emergency stabilisation.
Clean water infrastructure
Permanent water systems — boreholes, filtration, solar pumping — installed in communities where families currently walk hours daily for water that still carries disease. Built with local maintenance training so they keep flowing after we leave.
Care homes for the vulnerable
Safe, dignified homes for the elderly who have outlived their support networks, for orphans, and for those with severe disabilities whose families lack the resources to care for them. Run by trained Nigerian carers, not warehousing.
Skills training for youth
Vocational and digital skills programmes that move young Nigerians from dependency into livelihood — tailoring, ICT, construction trades, agriculture, small enterprise — with apprenticeships and starter-kit graduation so training translates into income.
Free schools & special education centres
The need
Over 10.5 million Nigerian children are out of primary school — the highest figure of any country in the world (UNICEF, 2024). Among them, an even more invisible cohort: children with autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and other learning differences, who are routinely turned away from mainstream schools and have nowhere else to go.
What Project New Dawn builds
- Free primary & secondary schools in underserved communities — zero tuition, zero hidden fees, uniforms and materials included.
- Special Education Centres staffed by trained specialists for children with autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, and physical and intellectual disabilities.
- Teacher training pipelines partnered with Nigerian education colleges, so staffing is local, qualified, and sustainable.
- Feeding programmes in every school, because hunger is the silent reason children stop attending.
How impact is measured
Enrolment numbers, attendance rates, examination outcomes, and individual learning plans for special education students — reported quarterly and audited annually as part of Project New Dawn governance.
Quality healthcare facilities
The need
Nigeria's maternal mortality rate is 512 deaths per 100,000 live births (WHO, 2023) — one of the highest in the world. Children die from conditions that are preventable and treatable. Distance, cost, and absent facilities are the three barriers Project New Dawn is built to break.
What Project New Dawn builds
- Community clinics in underserved areas, focused on maternal care, child immunisation, and primary diagnostics.
- Small hospitals capable of safe delivery, emergency stabilisation, and chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension, sickle cell).
- Trained local staffing — partnerships with Nigerian medical schools and nursing programmes so positions stay filled by Nigerians, not parachuted in.
- Mobile outreach for rural communities too remote for fixed facilities.
How impact is measured
Patient throughput, maternal and child mortality reduction within catchment areas, immunisation coverage, and treatment outcomes — reported quarterly with anonymised case data and audited annually.
Clean water infrastructure
The need
More than 60 million Nigerians lack access to clean drinking water (WaterAid, 2023). Women and girls bear the burden — hours every day collecting water that still carries cholera, typhoid, and parasitic disease. Time stolen from school, work, and life.
What Project New Dawn builds
- Community boreholes sited by hydrogeological survey, not guesswork — built to last.
- Solar-powered pumping systems that work where the grid does not.
- Filtration units for communities where the water table is contaminated.
- Local maintenance training — every installation comes with trained community caretakers and a spare-parts supply chain, so the system still works in five and ten years.
How impact is measured
People served per site, daily yield, water quality testing (independent lab), and uptime tracking. Every borehole is GPS-tagged and audited annually for continued operation.
Care homes for the vulnerable
The need
Nigeria has no comprehensive public elderly care system. Orphans and children with severe disabilities often have nowhere to go when family networks fail. Project New Dawn responds with dignified, professionally run homes — not warehouses, not last resorts.
What Project New Dawn builds
- Elderly care homes for those who outlived their support networks — full residential care with healthcare on site.
- Orphan care facilities built around small-family-unit models, not institutional dormitories, with schooling and life-skills built in.
- Disability support homes for those whose families cannot provide the specialist care they need — with day-programme options to keep family ties where possible.
- Trained Nigerian carers with proper salaries, ongoing training, and oversight.
How impact is measured
Residents served, quality of care metrics, independent safeguarding audits, and individualised care plans — reviewed quarterly. Safeguarding standards are central, not optional.
Skills training for youth
The need
Nigeria's youth unemployment is among the highest in the world, with millions of young people unable to translate even strong education into income. The gap is not ambition. It is the missing bridge between education and livelihood. Project New Dawn builds that bridge.
What Project New Dawn builds
- Vocational training centres — tailoring, construction trades, automotive, electrical, agriculture, hospitality — taught to a working professional standard.
- Digital skills programmes — basic ICT, web, design, remote-work readiness, financial literacy.
- Apprenticeship placements with vetted Nigerian businesses and diaspora-linked employers.
- Starter-kit graduation — a sewing machine, a toolset, a laptop — whatever the trade requires to turn skill into income on day one.
How impact is measured
Completion rates, placement rates into income within six months of graduation, sustained earnings at twelve months, and small-enterprise formation. Followed up by phone and field audit.
How Project New Dawn is governed.
Four operating principles that grant-makers, partners, and donors can hold us to — not as marketing, but as audit standards.
Money is traceable, end to end.
Every donation passes through formal banking and licensed payment infrastructure. Financial records are kept to audit standard, with periodic public reporting on Project New Dawn deployment.
Governed, not improvised.
DTTASA is a registered Nigerian non-profit (CAC RN 8583605), SCUML-certified by the EFCC, and approved by NIDCOM. Governance follows the DTTASA constitution and board oversight — not the discretion of any single person.
Built with Nigeria, not on top of it.
Every pillar is delivered through partnerships with Nigerian institutions — schools, medical colleges, vocational bodies, community leadership. Outside support funds the build. Nigerians run the work.
Reported, not promised.
Each pillar carries defined outcome metrics — enrolment, throughput, uptime, placement, residents served. Reported quarterly. Audited annually. Available on request to grant-makers and major donors.
Eight independent verifications.
One accountable organisation.
DTTASA's governance and identity are independently verified by Nigerian regulators, financial-crime authorities, diaspora authorities, and major international platforms. Every ID below is real, current, and verifiable.
Three ways to stand with this work.
Every channel below is operated directly by DTTASA, regulated, and traceable. Choose what fits — your gift goes to the same mission.
Donate with Card, Bank or USSD
Give instantly using your debit card, bank transfer, or USSD. Powered by Paystack — Nigeria's most trusted payment platform, CBN-licensed and globally compliant.
Payments are processed securely by Paystack. DTTASA never stores your card details. RN 8583605.
Give through GoFundMe
Donate directly through the active DTTASA GoFundMe campaign. International cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay accepted.
Give by bank transfer
Wire directly into the DTTASA registered account at First Bank Nigeria. For large gifts, grant disbursements, and partner organisations.
Send confirmation or queries to donations@dttasa.org. We will issue an official receipt and acknowledgement within 48 hours.
The work, in the words of those it reaches.
Composite voices drawn from community leaders, diaspora donors, and beneficiary families across DTTASA's areas of work — representative of the conversations that drive Project New Dawn.
Representative voice · Project New Dawn engagement
Representative voice · UK donor base
Representative voice · Special Education programme
The questions due diligence asks.
Direct, accurate answers — written for foundation programme officers, corporate giving teams, and major donors conducting standard pre-grant review.
DTTASA — Diaspora Together Trust and Support Association — is a non-profit registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria under Registration Number 8583605. Registration is current and verifiable directly through the CAC public register.
The registered office is at No. 17 Ehenden Street, Off Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, 300001.
DTTASA holds a current SCUML certificate (SC 121404827) issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria. SCUML — the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering — is the Nigerian regulator that certifies non-profits' compliance with AML and counter-terrorism financing standards.
All donations are received through formally banked channels (First Bank Nigeria), through licensed payment processors (Paystack — CBN regulated), or through internationally regulated platforms (GoFundMe, Benevity). No cash collection. No off-book accounts.
Yes. DTTASA is approved by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) under reference NIDC/LU/CAC/13/08. NIDCOM is the Federal Government of Nigeria's official body for coordinating diaspora engagement, and approval signifies recognition as a legitimate diaspora-linked civil society organisation.
Beyond Nigerian regulatory standing, DTTASA holds five independent international verifications:
— Google for Nonprofits verified partner (active). Google's verification requires confirmation of charitable status and ongoing eligibility review.
— Benevity Verified Cause (active). Benevity is the world's largest corporate purpose software platform, used by Fortune 500 employee-giving programmes. Verification enables corporate workplace donations and matched giving to flow directly to DTTASA.
— Apple Developer Program — Nonprofit Status (active). Apple's nonprofit verification waives the annual developer fee and confirms charitable status to Apple's standards, including identity and governance review.
— Goodstack verified (active). Goodstack is the non-profit identity verification platform used by major corporate giving programmes including those run by global tech and finance companies.
— DUNS Number 669828520 issued by Dun & Bradstreet — the international business identity standard required by most institutional grant-makers and federal-grant systems.
Yes. Through Benevity, DTTASA can receive corporate workplace donations, employee giving, payroll giving, and matched-giving disbursements from the broad network of corporate giving programmes that operate on the Benevity platform. Corporate giving teams can locate DTTASA in the Benevity Causes directory by name (Diaspora Together Trust and Support Association) or registration number (RN 8583605).
DTTASA also welcomes direct corporate grants and partnership funding arrangements — please contact vicepresident@dttasa.org to initiate.
Project New Dawn carries defined per-pillar outcome metrics — enrolment, attendance, treatment throughput, water-site uptime, residents served, training-to-income placement rates. These are tracked at programme level, reported quarterly to the DTTASA board, and made available to grant-makers and major donors on request.
Annual financial accounts are prepared to audit standard and are available for review under standard grant-maker due diligence procedures. DTTASA welcomes pre-grant site visits and independent verification of any reported outcome.
The Project New Dawn campaign launched in 2025 with an estimated horizon of 2029 for reaching the $600 million target. This is a working estimate, not a deadline. The campaign remains open until the target is reached, allowing larger and longer commitments from foundations and government partners to be accommodated without arbitrary cutoff.
Programme deployment is phased and ongoing — funds raised in any given period are deployed into the highest-priority pillar work without waiting for the full target to be hit. Donors receive impact reporting on deployment regardless of campaign stage.
Project New Dawn is national in scope, designed to reach all 36 states of Nigeria plus the Federal Capital Territory at full deployment. Initial deployment is prioritised by independent needs assessment — communities with the lowest existing access to the relevant pillar service are reached first.
DTTASA's registered base of operations is in Edo State, with active diaspora engagement primarily through the United Kingdom and broader Nigerian global communities.
Every local partner — schools, medical providers, vocational institutions, construction contractors, community-based organisations — is subject to formal due diligence before engagement. Standard checks include CAC verification of legal status, SCUML clearance where applicable, professional registration where applicable (e.g. medical and teaching staff with their relevant Nigerian councils), and reference verification.
Safeguarding standards apply to all programmes involving children, vulnerable adults, and beneficiaries of any kind. Safeguarding is treated as a governance condition, not an optional add-on.
Grant-makers and major donors are invited to reach DTTASA directly through any of the following channels:
— Vice President: vicepresident@dttasa.org
— General enquiries: info@dttasa.org
— Secretary-General: secretary@dttasa.org
— Donations team: donations@dttasa.org
UK contact: +44 7396 978981. DTTASA will respond to grant-maker enquiries with a full due-diligence pack on request.
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