OVERVIEW
Incorporated in 2005, TGI Cares Foundation is committed to transforming lives in all geographies of Tropical General Investment (TGI) Group’s operations, by providing appropriate educational, social, and economic relief for poverty alleviation. TGI Cares Foundation is the charitable foundation of TGI Group companies and its Promoter – Mr. Cornelis Vink MFR. The primary focus of the Foundation is to further drive food security in our operating by: Striving for Zero Hunger.
TGI Cares Foundation
To achieve this, the Foundation champions three key causes:
1
Combatting Existential Food Struggles
To combat malnutrition and fight hunger by ensuring that all people have access to nutritious, safe, and sufficient food and supporting food security programs
2
Providing Education
To promote advancement and propagation of quality education for all, support educational institutions, and offer scholarships and learning opportunities for the youth to increase their earning capacity. This will improve livelihoods with a huge potential to break poverty cycles and bring more families to better living standards with hunger being a thing of the past.
3
Providing Support for Victims of Humanitarian Crisis
To provide immediate humanitarian relief to communities displaced by natural disasters by donating medicines, food supplies, and investing in long-term rehabilitation efforts, all in a bid to combat situational hunger.
Impact Footprint
Feeding Programs
Through our community engagements and our partnerships with governments at all levels, food banks, other charities, and so on, we have provided millions of meals across Nigeria.
Education
We have adopted schools, volunteered to speak to and mentor girls’ schools, donated digital tools, conducted digital literacy trainings etc.
Relief Materials
From internal crisis displacing thousands of people, to deepening vulnerability in our communities especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the world experiencing more impact of climate change, the world and our communities have required us to step up. In the last 2 decades of existence, we have provided relief materials at IDP camps, potable water supply in different communities, relief materials to flood victims, donations to food banks, etc.
