The Khamzid Charity Foundation says it is set to empower 100,000 women and youths across Nigeria to reduce poverty and promote self-reliance.
The Chairman of the Foundation, Khalil Ibrahim Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, disclosed this at the inauguration of officials and 20 local government coordinators of the Tijjaniyya Youth Economic Development Initiative, TYEDI, held at the Dark Real Event Centre in Bauchi.
He described the initiative as a long-overdue awakening for a community rich in spiritual values.
He added that 20,000 beneficiaries are targeted in Bauchi State alone under the first phase of the programme.
“We are a people rich in faith, discipline and numbers, yet for too long we have been left behind in worldly affairs, not because we lack ability, but because we have not looked beyond, nor emphasized the balance between this life and the next,” he said.
“TYEDI exists to close that gap: to match our wealth of faith with a wealth of capability,” the Chairman said.
He noted that the programme is a trust the Foundation owes to its youth and to the legacy of their forebears.
“Our fathers gave us knowledge, character and unity. It falls to us to add to that inheritance the means of livelihood, so that our young people are strong in this life as they are rich in the next. A believer whose hand is productive is a believer whose faith is shielded from need.”
The Chairman urged the community to see the initiative not as charity, but as a responsibility.
“Let no youth among us sit idle while opportunity is built around him. And let no one who has been empowered keep the light to himself, for the one who lifts another lifts a whole household. This is how we were taught, and this is how we shall rise, together.”
The Programme Coordinator of the Foundation, Muhammad Abubakar Dahir, outlined the scale and structure of the initiative.
He said TYEDI has two core objectives: to equip 100,000 youths with market-ready skills, and to build from them an organized, civic-minded community of one million members who are skilled, self-reliant and active in nation-building.
“Under the programme, we train a young person, we help them start, we connect them to a network of peers, and we stay with them until they are established. When you empower one, you touch the ten who stand behind them. That is how a community of one million is not a slogan, but arithmetic,” he said.
Dahir explained that beneficiaries will be trained in 22 market-relevant skills covering agriculture and livestock, creative and digital trades, vocational and technical work, home production, and finance and trade.
Each participant will receive a starter pack and continuous mentorship through a structured pathway from training to mastery, enterprise, and an established livelihood.
He added that all participants will be registered through a verification process that records them down to ward and polling unit level to ensure empowerment reaches real members of the community.
According to him, Bauchi was chosen to lead the programme because it is the founding home of the community and where its structures are strongest.
“What we prove in Bauchi will become the model every other state will follow,” he said. From Bauchi, the programme will expand across the three northern geopolitical zones: North-East, North-West and North-Central.
He described the inducted coordinators as the backbone of the effort.
“Each of you now carries the trust of thousands. Through you this promise reaches the wards, the villages and the homes. Guard that trust with your integrity, and history will record that this movement began in your hands.”
Dahir called on governments at all levels, development partners, philanthropists and people of goodwill to support the initiative, describing the region’s youthful energy as its greatest untapped asset.
“A generation that is skilled and organized is a generation that builds, not one that waits, and not one that can be misled,” he said.
“What we are raising here is a firewall against idleness and a foundation for prosperity. It is a gift not to one community alone, but to the peace and progress of the entire nation.”
Programme Details
Equipping participants with practical trade skills including computer operations, tailoring, shoe and bag making, printing, and agriculture; and distribution of start-up kits, business support tools, and financial grants.
The Khamzid Charity Foundation is a registered humanitarian and development institution operating across Northern Nigeria within the community of Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi. It delivers skills training, enterprise support, humanitarian relief and community development.
TYEDI is a nationwide programme for youth empowerment and civic engagement. Participants will be drawn from the vast Tijjaniyya and Tsangaya youth community — disciples of the revered Islamic scholar Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi — whose network of schools and learning centres spans every state of the Federation with students and teachers numbering in the hundreds of thousands.