Our story
Why the Foundationexists.
Blessing Chukwu Foundation was established by Blessing Nkiruka Chukwu Akunne, putting lasting structure around a simple conviction: no child, widow, or family should face hardship alone.
Hardship rarely arrives as one problem. A child leaves school, a mother has a trade but no capital to start, a family skips the clinic. We work on all three, and we stay long enough to see it through.
01The founder
Care work, turned into a Foundation.
Blessing Nkiruka Chukwu Akunne is a Nigerian–Icelandic félagsliði — a social care worker — as well as a caregiver, psychology graduate and mother living in Reykjavík.
- Role
- Félagsliði — social care worker
- Training
- BA Psychology · Félagsliðagátt/brú
- Worked in
- Nigeria · UAE · Spain · Iceland
- Based
- Reykjavík, Iceland
Displacement, poverty and isolation strip people of dignity long before they lose everything else.
She has worked with older adults, people with disabilities, and families who need steady, respectful support — in Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, Spain and Iceland.
In Iceland she supports people in their daily lives with dignity, patience and professional care. That frontline work, and years in nursing homes and community services, shaped the Foundation.
Félagsliði, caregiver and parent: those roles are why the Foundation is built around people, not slogans — food, safety, education, and a chance to stand again.
The Foundation is her way of turning private compassion into public action. Whether through relief for displaced families, community initiatives in the African diaspora, or creative campaigns that keep people visible, the aim is simple: no one should have to disappear just because life became hard.
02Mission & vision
What we’re for.
To expand access to education, livelihood, and basic healthcare for underserved families — especially girls, disabled widows, and children out of school.
Communities where opportunity is ordinary, and dignity does not depend on luck.
03Values
The rules we keep.
Four rules the Foundation holds itself to.
- 01
Dignity
We ask before we act. Recipients are partners, not props.
- 02
Years, not days
Help measured in school years and working livelihoods, not in one-day events.
- 03
Verified
Quiet, measured help that the communities we serve can check for themselves.
- 04
Independent
Not a celebrity campaign, and not a one-day giveaway.
Give
Help someone stand again.
Give once, or give often. Either way it goes straight into the work, and stays there.