About Us
A child's postcode should never decide their future. Since 2019 we have worked in Ibadan's underprivileged communities to make sure it does not.
A child's postcode should never decide their future. Since 2019 we have worked in Ibadan's underprivileged communities to make sure it does not.
In the low-income communities around Ibadan, we kept meeting the same story: bright, capable children whose education ended not because of ability, but because of a school fee, a uniform, or a set of textbooks their family could not afford.
Chrysolite Foundation began in 2019 as a small volunteer effort to close that gap. We started going into communities directly — sitting with children and young adults, teaching them a craft they could earn from, and paying for the school costs that were keeping others out of the classroom.
In June 2023 we were formally incorporated as Incorporated Trustees with the Corporate Affairs Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That means every naira we receive is now governed by a registered constitution and accountable to law.
By the end of 2023 we had reached over 600 children and young adults with access to empowerment and education opportunities. We are still small, and we intend to stay close to the ground.
Stock photograph, by design. The foundation does not release images of the children it works with, so every photograph on this site is a licensed stock image (Pixabay — commercial use permitted, no attribution required). To swap one, drop a replacement into images/photos/ under the same filename; no HTML change is needed.
To provide young people in underprivileged communities with access to education and empowerment opportunities — removing the practical barriers that keep them out of the classroom and out of reach of their potential.
Communities where every child has the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive in a constantly changing world — and where the next generation reaches back to lift the one behind them.
Live • Love • Empower
Live with purpose, love people without conditions, and leave everyone we meet more capable than we found them.
We never photograph or describe a child in a way that diminishes them. Support is offered, never performed.
A term of school fees is a start, not a solution. We teach skills that keep earning long after our programme ends.
We work in communities we know — Isale Osun, Beere and others across Ibadan — and shape each cohort around what the people there tell us they need.
We publish what we actually did. If a number cannot be verified, we do not print it.
Products made in our training programme are sold, and every naira of those sales funds the next cohort.
Donations are recorded, receipted and reported. Our registration and tax numbers are public.
| Legal name | Chrysolite Empowerment and Education Foundation |
|---|---|
| Entity type | Incorporated Trustees |
| Registration number | IT/7008093 |
| Registrar | Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Abuja |
| Date of incorporation | 8 June 2023 |
| Registration status | Active |
| Governing law | Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 |
| Tax Identification Number | 2620089007465 |
| Registered office | NO 1, Oduduwa Road, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State |
| Programme office | Juli Alice Hall, Cilareta Filling Station, Oluyole Estate Road, Oluyole, Ibadan |
You can independently verify all of the above on the CAC public search portal. Searching 7008093 returns a single result — this foundation, entity type IT, registered 8 June 2023, status Active. The portal shows the number as RC 7008093; the certificate prints it as IT/7008093. Same registration. Last checked 10 October 2026.
The original Certificate of Incorporation, issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission in Abuja on 8 June 2023. Open it full size to read the registration number and TIN off the document itself.
About this image. Published unmodified — do not retouch or crop it, a
doctored registration document is worse than none. Note for the record: neither
this certificate nor the CAC public search result names the trustees, so §C of
NEEDED.md is still open — though it is a nice-to-have, not a blocker.
A small, volunteer-driven team based in Ibadan — supported by donors, partners and every person who buys something our trainees made.
Leadership
Founder & Executive Director
Head of Programmes
Programme tutors & volunteers
Crochet
Crochet
Tie & dye (adire)
Upcycling
Ankara crafts
Names and roles as published in the Nigerian Tribune, 7 October 2023 — “How NGO empowered Ibadan children with business skills”. Esther Mbabie's full name and title are independently confirmed on her Ekonke author profile.
Two notes on this section. (1) The cards use initials monograms by
design — no photographs of these people are published. (2) These are the roles as
printed in October 2023; ask the foundation to confirm the current line-up before
relying on them. See NEEDED.md.
Whether you give, volunteer or buy what our trainees make — there is a place for you here.
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