Staff

Emmanuel Nehemiah

Executive Director and Ashoka Fellow

Emmanuel Nehemiah founded the Prime Age Club in 1988, a club for disaffected Nigerian youth, when only 18 and the organisation still exists today, an early landmark for a career in developing social enterprise. Since then he has been instrumental in coordinating much of the rural NGO activity in Kaduna State and Kaduna itself, demonstrating his ability as a Changemaker by building new initiatives, wherever he treads. He has spent time as an educationalist in Zongon Kataf LGA and as a Managing Director of a business, Saman Industries, Nigeria from 1995-1998, which became a very profitable enterprise under his leadership. In 2002 he developed the Nehemiah Foundation, a registered NGO, set up to bring wealth to rural communities in Nigeria and since then he has developed over 50 cooperatives in rural Southern Kaduna State, producing goods as varied as soap and Bournvita. In 2005 he became an Ashoka fellow due to his outstanding track record in alleviating poverty. The following year, Nehemiah Foundation was commissioned by Action Aid to work on conflict resolution in Kaduna, ahead of the recent elections in Nigeria. The project was hailed a success, as, despite significant worldwide media coverage, much of the anticipated violence did not occur in Kaduna State. In 2007, his next project is the SKaRDIA Centre, an expansion of all of the ideas developed since 2002 and an enabler for these ideas to be spread around the whole of Southern Kaduna State.

You can contact Emmanuel directly at nehemiahfoundationintl@yahoo.com