Mrs Folashade Afolabi is the founder of Matilda David Foundation (MDF), located at the Iyana-Odo, Egbeda area of Lagos State. Folashade’s passion is to lend helping hands to vulnerable people, especially women and the youth. This, she said, is the central ideal of MDF.
The foundation, which she started a few years ago, trains, teaches and mentors its target audience. MDF recruits teachers, instructors and partners with facilitators who match the intellect, leadership potential and drive, which the organisation expects in its trainees. To ensure the target audience receives the best and quality knowledge, Folashade explained that their instructors and facilitators come from across the globe, and are a distinguished group of industry practitioners and experienced educators.
What these sets of people share in common is the belief in transformative education and the commitment to giving hope by empowering the less privileged, thereby helping and shaping lives. She said: “We’re into empowerment of the Nigerian youth and women. Nigerian women are not supposed to be housewives.
They are hardworking and are meant to support their families. As a Christian, there is no place the word of God told me; women should not support their families. However, I do agree that women should be submissive to our husbands even as we are supporting our families.
We started this empowerment programme a few years ago, unfortunately, we didn’t have our graduation ceremony in 2020 due to the COVID-.
