From One Conviction to a Movement
Inara Foundation was born in 2015 out of a single, clear conviction: conflict-affected communities in Northern Nigeria were being left behind. As the Boko Haram insurgency ravaged the North East, displacing millions, schools were shuttered, businesses collapsed, and families were torn apart.
Aisha Waziri Umar — a lawyer with a deep sense of social obligation — decided that the response to this crisis could not wait for government alone. She founded Inara to fill the gap, starting with libraries in government primary schools where children had never seen a book beyond their worn-out textbooks.
What began as a small-scale education intervention has grown, over ten years, into a multi-program humanitarian and development organization with a presence in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, and Abuja — and a reputation that has earned recognition from the British Council, MacArthur Foundation, and the Westminster Group in London.
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