Durian NG

Durian NG At Durian, we empower rural communities to be self-sufficient through transforming their local waste into value as well as a means of livelihood.

19/05/2026

Access to credit is good — but only when you know how to use it well.  Many rural women get credit and spend it on personal needs instead of growing their businesses. Mustirat used to see this happen often.

As a numbers-driven Itaja Women Fellow, Mustirat is now passionate about changing this story. 

Through the fellowship, she has gained practical knowledge on distinguishing good credit from bad credit, maintaining proper business records, and aligning finances with actual business goals. She’s excited to return to her community and equip other rural business women with these vital tools so they can finally access credit confidently and use it to build sustainable growth.

By the end of her fellowship, Mustirat will have reached and trained 10 women in her community with this life-changing knowledge. This is how we’re building a stronger, financially literate rural economy — one woman at a time. 

Fellows like Mustirat are the reason we’re on track to equip 1,500 rural businesses. If you’re a young woman (18–30) in Ondo Central or Ondo North with OND or equivalent in Business/Accounting, this could be your story too.  Applications are open → bit.ly/ItajaFellows3

Rural is Cool.

RuralIsCool

18/05/2026

“We are farmers. We just want to live and work in peace.”

These were the words we heard directly from farmers during our field training and engagement in rural communities.

While they work hard every day to put food on our tables, insecurity has turned their farms and villages into places of fear.
They cultivate in daylight and sleep in darkness, constantly vulnerable.

At Durian Foundation, we believe in co-creating solutions with the people we serve. So we listened. And while we await a permanent solution from the government, we are taking immediate actions- providing solar lanterns as a practical tool for safety, protection, and peace of mind.
In partnership with HAVEN Lantern, this initiative will empower over 200 farmers to continue their work and keep food accessible for all of us.

Security should not be a luxury for those who feed the nation. You can help bring light and safety to a rural farmer today. Donate here: https://bit.ly/DonateLanternsForSafety

Every lantern is a stand for peace and food security.

SupportOurFarmers

Meet Mrs Ikumapayi from Imafon community, Ondo State. Before Itaja, she was already selling.She woke up every day, opene...
05/05/2026

Meet Mrs Ikumapayi from Imafon community, Ondo State.
Before Itaja, she was already selling.
She woke up every day, opened her shop, served customers, and moved products.
But at the end of every month, she still couldn’t tell if she was making a profit… or just surviving.

Like many rural businesswomen, she was running her business with drive but without clarity. No proper records. No idea where her money was going. No clear path to growth.

Then Itaja reached her.
Through the Itaja Women Fellowship, she received hands-on training in bookkeeping, financial record-keeping, reading her numbers, and positioning her business for real growth.

Today, she runs the same shop — but now she knows exactly where every naira is going. She is no longer operating blindly. She is in control.

Right now, many women across Ondo Central and Ondo North are still where Mrs Ikumapayi used to be.

If you are a woman aged 18–30, based in Ondo Central or North, with an OND or equivalent in Business or Accounting, the Itaja Women Fellowship was built for you.

Applications are open on a rolling basis.

Apply now: bit.ly/ItajaFellows3
Know someone who qualifies? Send this to her today.
Rural women built this economy.
Now they’re learning how to lead it with knowledge and confidence.

FinancialLiteracy

What do you do when a situation is completely out of your control?Do you fret? Do you spiral? Or do you find a way to le...
04/05/2026

What do you do when a situation is completely out of your control?

Do you fret? Do you spiral? Or do you find a way to let go and keep moving?

Most of us have been there, but imagine being a rural farmer who sleeps every night with one eye open. Who sleeps with the fear of not surviving the night. Who sleeps with the thought of the safety of her farmland. Only to wake up the next day to see havoc wrecked on her farmland due to insecurity or wake up to the news of another village farm attacked.

That is the kind of out-of-control situation that rural farmers find themselves in silently, season after season.

At Durian Foundation, we exist to stand in that gap. Not to control what cannot be controlled, but to ensure that when the worst happens, no farmer faces it alone. Through community support, sustainable investments, and farmer-first programming, we help rural communities build the resilience to rise after every setback, which is why we launched the Keep Her Safe Keep Her Farming Campaign to help a rural woman farming stay safe even in out-of-control situations.

You cannot always control the storm. But you can decide who stands with you when it passes.

This Monday, choose to be that person for someone.

A rural farmer needs you today. Support her through our Keep Her Safe Keep Her Farming Campaign. Visit the link in our bio or https://bit.ly/DonateLanternsForSafety to see how you can get involved.

FarmerFirst CommunityResilience

What do you do when a situation is completely out of your control?Do you fret? Do you spiral? Or do you find a way to le...
04/05/2026

What do you do when a situation is completely out of your control?

Do you fret? Do you spiral? Or do you find a way to let go and keep moving?

Most of us have been there, but imagine being a rural farmer who sleeps every night with one eye open. Who sleeps with the fear of not surviving the night. Who sleeps with the thought of the safety of her farmland. Only to wake up the next day to see havoc wrecked on her farmland due to insecurity or wake up to the news of another village farm attacked.

That is the kind of out-of-control situation that rural farmers find themselves in silently, season after season.

At Durian Foundation, we exist to stand in that gap. Not to control what cannot be controlled, but to ensure that when the worst happens, no farmer faces it alone. Through community support, sustainable investments, and farmer-first programming, we help rural communities build the resilience to rise after every setback, which is why we launched the Keep Her Safe Keep Her Farming Campaign to help a rural woman farming stay safe even in out-of-control situations.

You cannot always control the storm. But you can decide who stands with you when it passes.

This Monday, choose to be that person for someone.

A rural farmer needs you today. Support her through our Keep Her Safe Keep Her Farming Campaign. Visit https://bit.ly/DonateLanternsForSafety or visit the link in our bio to see how you can get involved.

FarmerFirst CommunityResilience

30/04/2026

Rural Nigeria is going quiet.

Not the peaceful kind of quiet. The kind that comes when fear moves in and farmers stop going to their fields. Communities that once woke up before sunrise, machetes in hand, feeding their families and feeding this nation, now hold their breath when darkness falls. Farmers who inherited their land from their fathers and their fathers' fathers have been driven away from those same lands by persistent attacks from herdsmen. Some have not seen their farms in months. Others have abandoned harvests they spent everything to grow. The land is still there. The people are still there. But the bridge between them has been broken by violence and the paralysing fear of what comes next.

This is not a temporary disruption. It is a sustained assault on the livelihoods, heritage, and dignity of entire communities. When farmers cannot access their farms, families go hungry. When families go hungry, communities begin to die. And when communities die, rural Nigeria loses something it cannot easily rebuild.

When we, at Durian Foundation, went into these communities to listen, the weight of what these farmers were carrying became impossible to ignore. In the face of epileptic power supply and the ever-present threat of attacks under cover of darkness, reliable illumination has become a matter of survival, not comfort.

This is why Durian Foundation, in strategic partnership with Haven Lanterns, is proud to launch the Keep Her Safe, Keep Her Farming Campaign. Together, we are putting solar lanterns in the hands of rural farmers across these communities, illuminating their homes and farmlands so that night no longer means defencelessness.

A lamp is not just a lamp here. It is a boundary. A signal. A way of saying, this farm is watched, this home is protected, this family is not invisible.

If you believe that the people who feed us deserve to feel safe while they sleep, this is your moment to act.

Donate towards the Keep Her Safe, Keep Her Farming Campaign today and help us bring light to the communities that cannot afford to go dark.

Donate here: https://bit.ly/DonateLanternsForSafety

A farmer who cannot protect her harvest will eventually stop farming.And when farmers stop, we all go hungry.From pest i...
29/04/2026

A farmer who cannot protect her harvest will eventually stop farming.

And when farmers stop, we all go hungry.

From pest infestations to abandoned farmlands due to rising insecurity, the causes of food scarcity in Nigeria run deeper than most people realize. Swipe to see the 3 leading reasons Nigeria's food supply is under threat, and what you can do about it.

Support our Keep Her Safe, Keep Her Farming Campaign. Your donation goes further than you think. Donate via https://bit.ly/DonateLanternsForSafety

Know of more causes? Drop them in the comments.

Follow, like, and share widely, because this conversation needs to reach more Nigerians.

FarmerSecurity RuralInvestment Nigeria

She was always the backbone of the rural economy. Now she’s getting the tools to prove it.Cohort 2 of the Itaja Women Fe...
28/04/2026

She was always the backbone of the rural economy. Now she’s getting the tools to prove it.

Cohort 2 of the Itaja Women Fellowship has successfully graduated. These young women didn’t just learn — they mastered the art and science of rural business development. Now, they’re back in their communities, training and supporting rural business women with proper business processes, financial record-keeping, and the systems needed to unlock funding and sustainable growth.

Applications for Cohort 3 are still open on a rolling basis! If you’re a woman aged 18–30, based in Ondo Central or Ondo North, with an OND or equivalent in Business or Accounting, this 3-month hands-on fellowship is built for you. You’ll gain practical skills in small business management, financial documentation, and everything it takes to position rural businesses for real success. Don’t wait for the window to close.

Apply now: bit.ly/ItajaFellows3

If this isn’t for you, please share it with the woman who needs it. Tag her, send it to her, or drop a comment if you have questions.

Rural women built this economy. The Itaja Women Fellowship is ensuring they lead it.

According to , over 1,356 farmers have been killed in the last five years due to worsening insecurity—a figure that onl...
27/04/2026

According to , over 1,356 farmers have been killed in the last five years due to worsening insecurity—a figure that only captures the documented crisis in Northern Nigeria. In the rural settlements of the Southwest, large-scale farming enterprises are facing a similar, silent siege. These Southwest villages are home to massive agricultural potential, yet their struggle rarely makes the front page.

At Durian Nigeria Foundation, we know that true Agricultural Transformation is impossible without a foundation of physical safety. We "support" rural communities and co-create the structured economic systems they need to thrive. But no system can function when the farmers—the primary drivers of the hinterland—are living in fear.

To move African agricultural brands from ordinary to unicorn status, the farm must first be a safe space. By partnering with .lantern, we are installing solar lighting to protect the "agricultural vanguards" of our community.

Transformation requires more than just seeds; it requires security. We are raising funds to light up the farms of Imafon, Ibushi, Ilado and our farm village in Iyemero to ensure our farmers are not just another uncaptured statistic.

Your donation directly funds high-impact Haven Solar Lanterns.

Be the light for a farmer today: bit.ly/DonateLanternsforSafety or check the link in our bio.

Farmers EconomicSafety OndoState

Looking back at our 1st Cohort of the Itaja Women Fellowship is nothing short of inspiring. These young women are passio...
24/04/2026

Looking back at our 1st Cohort of the Itaja Women Fellowship is nothing short of inspiring.

These young women are passionate about seeing rural businesses thrive and committed themselves to getting the Durian Business Development Masterclasses during the mandatory one week training. What sets them apart from those who gained theoretical knowledge of MBA is their immediate deployment to the markets in their communities charged with the sole goal of making women-owned rural businesses findable and fundable.

We shared a very exciting one week together getting to know them as much as they got to learn about our sustainable economic empowerment model of intervention. It was a very eye opening residency learning experience for them and we can't wait to welcome more women living in selected communities to join our next cohort.

Application is open now. Like, and share this post with someone who has been looking for an opportunity like this.

Note: To apply, check the link in our bio.

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