About Us

My family and I have always had a passion for helping the less privileged, especially children. From 2009 till date, we made modest attempts to alleviate the suffering, bring succour to and support the education of children in underserved communities.

On our first attempt in 2009, we reached out to children in Ona-Osa, a community in Ibeju Lekki Area of Lagos State. We provided them with food stuffs, clothing materials and registered two of the most indigent children in a government school.

In 2010, we again reached out to children in MOPOL 21 Barracks in Ikeja, Lagos state. We provided the children with books, school bags and clothing materials that we could gather from family and friends. Three of the children were offered scholarship after an open draw in a program we tagged “Back to School”.​

These events were joyfully received by the communities. We found their response refreshing and encouraging so we repeated the program again and again while improving on the reach, scope and coverage as our finances could support .

“Back to school” was followed up by Christmas parties. Food and clothing materials were solicited, cleaned and handed over to the children and their mothers as well, during festive period.

This is in line with our belief that no one deserves to be kept out of festivities irrespective of their economic status. On a Saturday in November 2013, my wife, Dr. (Mrs) Folake Olatunji-David, and I went out on evangelism and ventured into “New Kuchingoro”, an unplanned, makeshift rural settlement close to the Games Village in Abuja; a community of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). As we interacted with the IDPs, we noticed the deplorable conditions under which they lived and promised to check back to see how we could be of assistance. ​

Three days later, on a Tuesday morning at about 9.00am, we returned to the community and observed with grave concern that instead of being in school, many of the school-aged children were roaming the locality. On enquiry from the parents, out of the many reasons given, we identified the following three factors as being primarily responsible for keeping the children out of school; the poor financial condition of the parents, the non-availability of a government school within a five kilometre radius, and the fear of sending little children who are complete strangers in the city to a school 5km away.​

As strong advocates for education as the key to destiny recovery and a tool for societal transformation, we were moved with compassion and in response, I mobilized my wife and daughter Ifeoluwa, an Architect and together, we began to spend two hours in turns under the tree with the children, teaching them everyday before going to our respective offices. As the news of the classes began to spread, more children came, some literally escaping from their houses to attend. As the number of children increased, additional hands including an interpreter was employed.

The number of children attending classes kept increasing, and soon it became obvious that the children were unable to concentrate because of hunger, so we added a meal a day to what we offered the children. Soon words of this modest efforts went round and more children began to turn up. To us, as a family, perhaps the greatest encouragement was the excitement exhibited by the children to learn . And so began the journey of what we call today, Life Builders’ ‘School Without Walls’ currently providing education to over 700 children growing and glowing to the glory of God.​

Signed

Sanwo Olatunji-David​

Chairman

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LBI BOT​