A women-led, faith-inspired NGO, rooted in Nigeria
We work alongside communities to safeguard vulnerable individuals, build resilient futures, and enable safe, dignified, and lasting opportunities for growth and self-reliance.
Hope isn’t just a feeling. It’s the belief that a safer, healthier, more dignified future is possible, and the willingness to help build it together.
Jasmine Hope Foundation (JHF) is a women-led, faith-inspired Nigerian NGO working alongside communities to protect people at risk, build resilience, and open up real pathways to opportunity. Our work spans Northeast, Northwest, Northcentral and all areas that are vulnerable in Nigeria and beyond, with a particular focus on women, girls, children, older persons, people with disabilities, and other groups who are too often left behind.
We go where vulnerability, poverty, exclusion, violence, climate pressure, and lack of access to basic services all meet at once, because that’s usually where the need is greatest.
We believe change lasts when it starts with people themselves: their voices, their dignity, their knowledge, and their own capacity to shape what comes next.
To restore dignity, strengthen resilience, and create real opportunity for people and communities who need it most.
We work with communities, government, civil society, development partners, and the private sector to get at the root causes of violence, inequality, exclusion, and poverty, not just the symptoms. Through locally-led solutions, solid evidence, strong partnerships, and a willingness to try new approaches, we help people access protection, healthcare, education, livelihoods, and the everyday services that let them thrive.
A future where everyone is safe. Where every woman and girl can live with dignity and choice. Where every child can learn and grow. Where every community has what it needs to build a better tomorrow.
We’re working toward communities where no one is left out, every voice counts, rights are protected, and hope has room to grow into something lasting.
Called to serve. Rooted in love. Grounded in the Word.
Jasmine Hope Foundation is a faith-based organisation. Our work is inspired by the conviction that every person is made in the image of God and carries inherent worth and dignity. Scripture calls us to act, not merely to feel compassion, but to put that compassion into practice for the vulnerable, the forgotten, and the oppressed.
“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me… to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives… to comfort all who mourn… to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning.”
This passage anchors our identity: restoring dignity, building hope, and creating opportunity are, for us, an act of faith lived out in service.
Micah 6:8“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
James 1:27“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Proverbs 31:8–9“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.”
Galatians 6:2“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.”
While JHF is guided by these convictions, we serve all people with equal dignity and respect, regardless of faith, ethnicity, or background, and we do not condition assistance on religious participation.
In many underserved communities, people aren’t facing one problem. They’re facing several at once.
These problems are connected, so our response has to be too.
That’s why JHF brings protection, health, education, livelihoods, resilience, and community development together, instead of treating them as separate boxes to check.
Seven connected areas of work, delivered together rather than one at a time.
Making communities safer and strengthening the systems that protect people from violence, abuse, exploitation, and discrimination.
Because health is the foundation for everything else.
Every child deserves the chance to learn and grow.
Protection means more when people can also build a secure livelihood.
Safe water and sanitation are the backbone of health and dignity.
Helping communities adapt as climate change reshapes food security, health, and safety.
Helping communities rebuild trust, ease tension, and stay inclusive.
We don’t believe in showing up with solutions designed somewhere else and handing them over. We listen first.
We learn from what people already know and have lived through. And we work side by side with communities to figure out priorities, design solutions together, test what actually works, and build the local capacity to keep it going.
Communities sit at the center of decisions that affect their own lives.
We stand for dignity, equality, inclusion, and access to basic rights and services.
We rely on data, research, and honest learning to understand needs and improve what we do.
We work with government, communities, civil society, private-sector partners, and local networks, because no one does this alone.
We build on local knowledge, local leadership, and systems that already exist.
We look for solutions that can outlast any single project or funding cycle.
We believe change builds step by step.
Protection creates safety and dignity
Access to services improves health
Education and skills open up choices
Livelihoods strengthen households
Community leadership creates ownership
Partnerships make it all sustainable
The result: stronger, safer, more resilient communities where people can actually thrive, not just survive.
We focus on people facing the greatest barriers to safety, dignity, and opportunity.
Vulnerability rarely comes in one form. Our programmes are designed to reflect that.
Our roots are in Northeast Nigeria, where communities are dealing with displacement, poverty, protection risks, climate change, and limited access to services, often all at once.
From here, our work now reaches across the Northeast, Northwest and Northcentral regions of Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region, while we build models that can be adapted wherever they’re needed.
Our work speaks directly to eight of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Food security, nutrition and resilient livelihoods
Health, mental health and wellbeing services
Inclusive and equitable learning opportunities
GBV prevention and women’s leadership
Safe water, sanitation and hygiene
Inclusion and opportunity for underserved populations
Climate resilience and environmental sustainability
Protection, justice and peace
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Feasibility study · October 2026
An independent study of how well JHF’s strategy fits the region’s most pressing needs, and what it will take to scale.
Commissioned by JHF and carried out by our research partner Voices and Evidence Frontiers, the study reviewed the 2026 humanitarian needs picture, Borno and Adamawa State development plans, JHF’s own strategy and policies, and consultations with JHF staff, humanitarian coordination professionals and a UN/institutional donor representative. Its conclusion: JHF is feasible, with priority institutional strengthening.
Figures as cited in the feasibility study, from the UNOCHA Nigeria 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan.
JHF’s focus areas, from GBV and child protection to livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture and education, map directly onto the humanitarian sectors and state recovery priorities in Borno and Adamawa.
As a women-led, faith-based national organisation with a Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus approach, JHF is well placed for the localisation agenda.
Policies already cover governance, financial management, procurement, safeguarding, data protection and MEAL.
Documentation, MEAL and communication systems need strengthening, so that policies become consistent practice and JHF can show its impact to donors.
The goal: move from a promising grassroots actor to a credible, grant-ready humanitarian partner, delivering at scale across Borno and Adamawa States.
Download the reportOur partnership model brings together the people and institutions that each hold a piece of the answer.
New partner October 2026
JHF has partnered with Voices and Evidence Frontiers (VEF), who delivered our 2026 feasibility study. VEF says the findings establish JHF as an organisation with strategic relevance and deep grassroots credibility for humanitarian action in Northeast Nigeria, and give JHF a clear blueprint for delivering its mandate sustainably.
If you bring knowledge, resources, networks, or new ideas that can help communities move forward, we want to talk.
Start a conversationEveryone deserves to be treated with respect.
Everyone deserves a voice and a fair chance to participate.
We answer to the people and communities we serve.
We act transparently and ethically.
Communities own the solutions that shape their lives.
We listen, measure, and keep improving.
Safety and safeguarding come first, always.
We’re not trying to just deliver more projects. We’re trying to build models that communities and institutions can carry forward long after we’re gone.
That means identifying what leaves people behind, listening to what communities actually need, designing practical solutions, testing them, learning from the results, partnering with institutions that can sustain the work, and scaling what proves to work.
Our goal isn’t more programmes. It’s stronger communities and systems that keep delivering results on their own.
At Jasmine Hope Foundation, hope only means something when it turns into action.
These aren’t just numbers on a report. They’re what hope looks like when it’s real.
Updates from the field, current issues we’re responding to, and press.
Our new partner Voices and Evidence Frontiers has completed an independent feasibility study of JHF. It finds strong alignment between our strategy and the region’s most pressing needs, and sets out nine recommendations to make JHF a credible, grant-ready humanitarian partner.
Under the 2025 theme “Unite to End Digital Violence against all Women and Girls”, JHF took part in the Orange the World campaign alongside the Adamawa State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the GBV Sub-Sector, the Office of the First Lady and UNFPA: from the opening ceremony and press briefing to school outreach and community sports activities.
See the photosAcross the communities we serve, displacement, flooding and violence rarely arrive one at a time. Our teams are responding with protection services, clean water, nutrition support and psychosocial care, delivered together.
Request support or refer someoneFrom our head office in Jimeta Yola and offices in Maiduguri, Katsina and Sokoto, our programmes now reach communities across northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region.
See where we workJournalists and researchers can reach our communications team for statements, field access requests, data and interviews. Our organisational profile and logo pack are available on request.
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