Welcome to FAMA-Alek Foundation!!

FAMA-Alek Foundation is a family, not-for-profit organization inspired by our father, Hon. Francis Alek Mgbulu-Amadi who did not live long enough to reap the fruits of his labor. However, his legacy, vision, and foresight live on by efforts of his children through FAMA-Alek Foundation. His accomplishments were outstanding in the vital areas of Agriculture, Clean Water Supply, Communication, Education, Health, Politics, and Public Service for his community and country.

History of Hon. Francis Alek Mgbulu-Amadi aka F.A.M., (1919-1964):
Early in his life, F.A.M was instrumental to the organization and inauguration of Nsukka Divisional Union in 1939, as a forum for the articulation, protection and projection of the interests of the people of Old Nsukka District in Nigeria.

In 1940, he rallied some of the young men of his hometown Aku, to form the first “Aku Youth Association.” This association mobilized and sensitized the entire town to increase the attention paid to education which led to the establishment of a system of communal payment of school fees for all children of school age. This was ostensibly a veritable form of free education.

Community wide, he contributed to the achievement of the following:

• 1944 – Free Primary Education in Aku, Enugu State, Nigeria.
• 1947 – The establishment of a Maternity Home in Aku.
• 1947 – He attracted the first rural Water Scheme at Agbase in Aku, which was built to harness the spring water of Ase Hills under the guidance of Chief Attah Nwa Okanya.
• 1948 – The establishment of Aku Postal Agency.

1951-1959: He taught at Government Teacher Training College, Kumba, Cameroun (1951-1953) after which he proceeded to England in pursuit of university education. He graduated from University of Southampton (1956) where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from Lincoln College, Oxford University (1957). He returned to Nigeria with a vision of making a difference in the lives of his people. Hence he continued with his quest for sustainable development in all spheres of life. He joined the civil service as an Education Officer. From 1957 to 1960, he taught at St. Charles College, Onitsha, Government College Umuahia, and St Theresa’s College, Nsukka where he contributed to molding the next generation of educated persons for the country.

1960-1964: He worked tirelessly with the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) to help Nigeria gain her independence from Great Britain in 1960. He successfully ran and won an election to the Nigerian House of Representative which earned him the title “Honorable” representing his community Aku and the greater Igbo-Etiti and then Nsukka Division. During this period, throughout Nsukka Division, he championed public service, education and giving back to the community.

In 1960, he founded Igbo-Etiti Grammar School with a Military Cadet, an innovation and first of its kind in Eastern Nigeria, integrating grammar as a major component of secondary education with disciple, leadership, and moral building of young men from all parts of Nigeria. Many students came from Western and Northern Nigeria to benefit from the vast experiences the school provided.

He also attracted integrated style farming when the Eastern Region government established a branch of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation (ENDC) in Adada. That was a vision!

As a result of an endless drive and passion to give back to his community, he ventured into sustainable agriculture by investing on making it possible for rural people to have access to land for their own individual agricultural practices to enhance productivity and means of livelihood thereby alleviating rural poverty. He opened his large farmland in Opanda to allow peasant farmers access to land to grow cash crops. He supported them by building the first rice mill in the area. He maintained exchange of ideas between rural farmers and workers from agricultural institutions in Nigeria.

1964, June 22nd – He passed on.

FAMA-Alek Foundation (Post F.A.M.) 1964 – 2011

As an unregistered organization, FAMA Alek-Foundation existed as a family dream. The rice processing mill for rice croppers in Opanda farmland continued to be operational until the Nigerian civil in 1967.

In 1971, our mother, Mrs. Mary Amadi (of blessed memory) championed the advancement of the original desire to allow rural farmers access to farmland. The family then re-established the provision of large farmland in Opanda which had stopped due to the 1967-1970 Nigeria civil war. This allowed the farmers the ability to earn their livelihood by growing cash crops, though at a subsistence level of farming.

In 1990, the family led by our late brother, Ozo Ossei Chuma Amadi, instituted an educational award in honor of our father, late Hon. F.A.M. Amadi at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka – a Prize for the Best Graduating Student in Resources Development.

In the quest for continuous giving back to the community, in 1990s, the family provided massive agricultural land areas for fresh graduates of Nigerian universities to carry out farming. This was a program initiated by the National Directorate for Employment (NDE) in Nigeria.

A family member, Lady Carol Adaeze Omiko, contributed immensely especially to women empowerment in the business sector, welfare, social, and religious activities in Abuja, Aku, and Afikpo between 1996 and 2011 prior to her passing.

In June 2011 another family member, Ms. Ifeyinwa Amadi-Davis championed and successfully executed a World Bank Family Network Book Project. A 40-foot container load of books donation from the World Bank were distributed to over 50 pre-selected schools in Nigeria. Recipient schools are Universities, Colleges, Secondary (High), and Elementary schools from eight States and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

In August 2011 FAMA-Alek Foundation was formally registered as a not-for-profit organization with the dream of achieving the vision of one-man Hon. F.A. Mgbulu-Amadi.