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Empowering African
Creatives

The Joyce Ababio Design Foundation, we believe that women and especially young people in Africa hold enormous potential to build a better Africa. Our work is to unleash these creative potentials, through a life-changing career learning, technical and vocational education experience that equips women and youths including differently-abled persons with hands-on skills, tools and entrepreneurial foundation for a lifetime.

The Joyce Ababio Design Foundation, we are committed to providing creative education that plays a vital role in shaping Africa’s future and sustainable development. We deliver high-quality creative leadership and entrepreneurial training to individuals including differently-abled persons who aspire to harness their creative minds. We offer specialized design training, which is tailored to suit the capabilities of the trainees, and provides women and youths including differently-abled persons with the opportunity to change their lives and contribute to build a better Africa.
1256
beneficiaries - 7%
differently-abled
13
countries; fostering 
diversity & inclusivity
80%
of beneficiaries 
receive scholarships
Scholarships
JADF - Enterprise Skills Scholarships provide a life-changing opportunity to women and youths to discover talents, learn new skills, and prepare for a transformative career in Africa’s creative industry and shape the community at large.
Funds to Enterprise
This program expands skill training while addressing the persistent challenges faced by the community at large by providing funding and tailored guidance to scale-up trainee projects that benefit women, children and youth.
Livelihood Support
This recognizes the unique challenges differently-abled persons face and provides them with at a zero-cost training, skills and trade support. By this, we are giving them power - to thrive and succeed, without having to rely on the help of others. 
Research
Research is critical to harness Africa’s talent and grow a skilled population that helps in addressing Africa’s most challenges and equip citizens to take control for their livelihoods and compete with their peers in the global job market.
Creative Mobile Truck
Creative Mobile Truck project seeks to improve livelihoods and ensure that those across hard-to-reach communities, such as displaced people, refugees, and the rural poor, can realize their creative dreams.
Trainers Capacity Building
This program supports the professional development of our facilitators who are breaking grounds in their fields. This is to ensure JADF remains at the forefront of African creative research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

“Thank you JADF for making my dream come through providing me with training, skills at a zero-cost and funds to enterprise. I cannot be more grateful than this.”

Gifty Abedi
Change-makers training with proven results
A life-changing creative arts core fostering critical thinking, accountability, communication and problem-solving skills to create innovative and practical solutions that meets the needs of Africa.
Work focused for Africa’s progress
Our change-makers training and experience results in over 85% of our trainees living and working in Africa; find placement in careers or start their own businesses within six months after internship.
Transforming lives, including differently-abled
JADF enterprise training helps grow the local economy, international business and enable trainees to start new enterprises. 48% of trainees receive financial aid. 54% of beneficiaries are women. 7% of beneficiaries are differently-abled.

Nurturing a New Generation of Africa’s Creative Minds

The Joyce Ababio Design Foundation (JADF) is a non-profit creative arts foundation committed to nurturing a new generation of bold, entrepreneurial and ethical creative leaders our continent and planet need. Our mission is to unleash creative potentials, nurture within our beneficiaries the critical thinking, accountability, communication and problem-solving skills; the community change-makers mindset and the boldness needed to drive their world. Our vision: a better Africa driven by a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial creative leaders.

Founded in 1995 by the visionary Ghanaian Joyce Ababio, with social responsibility at the heart. The foundation has sponsored over 100 people in direct benefit of scholarships and over 2,000 indirect benefits of training, mentorship, coaching dedicated to offering life-changing programs in creative arts that is laser-focused to reshape creative education in Africa.
Donations help JADF grow, expands our impact and provides more support to trainees in need - especially women and youth including the differently-abled across Africa.
1256
beneficiaries - 7%
differently-abled
13
countries; fostering
diversity & inclusivity
80%
beneficiary
scholarships

The best learning happens during hands-on, real-world experiences. I loved the internships and self-directed projects made a core part of the JADF change-makers training.

Razak Yussif

Meet Our Leadership

Joyce Ababio
Founder & President
Akosua Koranteng Adayi
Registerar of JACCD Design Institute Africa
Bismark Dzahene-Quarshie
Lead Programs Officer

Join Us Expand Our Impact

We are deeply thankful and humbled by the generosity and insightful support of our global community, right from the time JADF’s journey begun. This have helped JADF raised the capital to help fund and support different aspects of the JADF trainees experience, transformed lives and provided more financial support to trainees in need - especially women and youth including the differently-abled. 

Today, JADF needs more vibrant community of supporters to help expand its African life-changing impact forward. There are many ways you can help and use your skills and passion to support JADF’s work.
Support
Every donation to JADF of any amount, is a valued gift to support, educate, empower and engage more women and young Africans to make the progress we all need.

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