The Daniel Kanu Youth Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization committed to “Molding Future Leaders to have Conscience and Integrity through Education and Sports”. It is our vision at the Daniel Kanu Youth Foundation to support youth development by promoting sports and education amongst youths. Through participating in Sports, the Nigerian youths can learn important key values such as honesty, teamwork, fair play, respect for others and themselves, adherence to rules and obedience to constituted authorities. To help youths achieve broader goals in education, the foundation is ensuring that youths, both in and out of school, have access to quality education and increased opportunity to learn by providing educational materials, encouraging school attendance and desire to succeed academically by making education fun.
It is our vision at the Daniel Kanu Youth Foundation that all youths in Nigeria have the opportunity to receive an education and learn to their full potential. It is our hope that our efforts can be multiplied to allow the opportunity for every child’s gifts and challenges to be met with support nationwide.
Through education and sports, we want the Nigerian youth to develop skills for understanding self -worth and having self-discipline, working with others, communicating, cooperating, negotiating, and building relationships, coping, adapting, and being responsible. Finally, making good judgments, evaluating, making decisions and problem-solving.
We are poised to encourage youths to develop good conscience and integrity by understanding personal values, moral and ethical decision-making, expanding the capacity to enjoy life, participation in public efforts of citizenship that contribute to the community and the nation and know that success is possible.
It is our goal to break the cycle of unruly behavior, social misconduct and mold youths with conscience and integrity. It is our dream that the world will be a better place for our youths and youths of the next generation.
We intend to achieve these through supporting our youths educationally by providing educational materials in schools and encouraging school attendance and also by encouraging youths` participation in different sporting activities.
Sports provide numerous opportunities for youths to grow socially, emotionally and physically. Furthermore, they also allow youths to learn and practice in a competitive environment. While sports may increase a child’s positive social interaction with his peer group and adults, it can also create a stressful environment for children, for example parents may place unrealistic pressure on their children to perform. Parents and children must find a balance in regards to how many extracurricular activities children participate in. Participation in team sports and activities can be an amazing tool that helps children to succeed in their everyday lives and in the future.
To help youths achieve these goals, the foundation is ensuring that youths, both in and out of school have opportunities to develop their sporting talents by providing gymnasiums in schools where youths can participate in any sport of their choice and also by providing avenues where youths can showcase their talents e.g the foundation is presently sponsoring the F.C.T. football league and this will provide an opportunity for the talents of these youths to be showcased to the entire world.
The foundation is also planning to make school fun by ensuring that youths in and out of school have access to quality education and increased opportunity to learn by providing educational materials, encouraging school attendance and desire to succeed academically and also by providing gymnasiums in schools where youths can explore and discover their talents.
