Emmanuel Agunze

For this child, her smiles and that of many more in Makoko, I am willing to go more miles,

The Makoko Dream... One Touch... Many Lives.

Good News! 50 more Makoko families receive palliatives to help themselves in these trying period.

This was Carried out by the RISE initiative in partnership with The Makoko Dream and YALI Network Lagos.

We rise by lifting others up!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.
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Good News, 5 Makoko women receives Empowerment Loan to help start/support their businesses from The Makoko Dream team!

Earlier in the year, we brought you news of how The Makoko Dream team shared palliatives to over 1053 families(Potential 5259 persons, cos an average family has 5 persons) in Makoko for months during the enforced lockdown in Phases 1-4.

Now, the Lockdown has been lifted, but a whole lot of families have lost their jobs and much more have found it difficult to cope with the 'new normal'.

To address this, we know that Palliatives will not be sustainable, so we went ahead to implement a loan scheme to ensure more women(who are mainly breadwinners in Makoko) have some funds to start or support their existing businesses.

For this first phase, each of the women received a 10,000 Naira loan each. The goal is to keep assisting families like these till we can not only help families to fend for themselves alone, but also help them to create wealth for themselves and their families.

Our goal is to reach out to about 200 families if possible with this Loan Scheme so that more persons will be busy doing something to generate income for their families.

If you would you like to be a part of this program and make more families benefit from this program, please kindly send in your donations to

The Makoko Dream Foundation
1016073859
Zenith Bank

To God be all the Glory!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.

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Tribute to The Makoko Dream COVID-19 Global Heroes Phase 4!

In Phase 4, we reached out to a total of 412 Families in 4 days, and as such, made the grand total to be 1053 families(641-phase1 to 3, plus 412) and a potential 5259 persons, cos an Average Family in Makoko is 5 persons or more that were fed for some days.

Many thanks to: Angela BrokMann, Kate McNamara, Adisa Wali, Gloria Rendon, Laela K, Ron Fernandez, Adam Danser, Chelsey Owen Chelsey Owen Kathleen Prezocki, Kathleen Beehan Prezocki Sandy Gerstle, Gina Melynk, Atim George, Dena Grushkin Dena Grushkin Cathy Crockett, Eric Sinnott, Kurt Synder, Angela Dutton, Angela Connor Dutton David Watts, Lynn Little Stewart, Shirley Cissell Murphy, GUNZ, Sophia Adaeze Sophy Emiator Abisola Oluwadamilola, Abisola Oluwadamilola Queen Marilyn the 1st, and so many more who supported in kind and services.

God Bless you all.


Phase 5 Starts soon.

To be a part of suporting families, kindly send to
The Makoko Dream Foundation, 1016073859, Zenith Bank.

Or Venmo if you are in the US. Or kindly reach out to Angela for the Gofund me link.

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.

Tribute to The Makoko Dream COVID-19 Global Heroes Phase3!

In Phase 3, we reached out to a total of 364 Families in Days1-5 consecutively, and brought the sub total to 641(364 plus 277-Phases 1 and 2).

Much thanks to:
Richard Gunasena, Moji(Heritage Bank), Atim George, Dunwene Joshua, Nancy Marshall, Becca Florcezyk, Dena Grushkin, Connie Farris, Sharlie Khan, Kim Machtolff Swett, John J. Ballback, Maureen Olivia Koppel, Paige Dixon, Patricia Slaughter, Michele Klein, Ayoyinka Owairu, and University of Louisville Students(Nigerian Chapter) Kentucky, USA.

THANK YOU and THANK YOU. You all are the real MVPs.

To God be all the Glory!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.

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Tribute to The Makoko Dream COVID19 Global Heroes Phase 2!

In Phase 2 we reached out to 25 Families in 3 days. 13, 10, 2. And that made it 277(Phase 1-252, phase 2-25)

We want to Appreciate University of Louisville, Kentucky USA Students, Nigerian Chapter(In Diaspora) and WELTI for their donations.
The University of Louisville Students also helped paying Stipends(Rationalised Salary for April) for The Makoko Dream(TMD) Volunteer Teachers who needed some form of Relief.

To God be all the Glory!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.

Tribute to The COVID-19 Global Heroes!

Phase 1 of The Makoko Dream Food Relief Programme for The Lockdown was awesome because certain persons cared.

252 families were reached out to in 2 days in The Phase 1 Stage. We have gone ahead to do three more phases(4 phases in total) and reached out to over 1030 families( That is about 5150 persons as an average family in Makoko is 5 persons per household). Wow!

We want to thank all those who made it possible for Phase 1 to be awesome. You are the real heroes!

People like:
Dena Grushkin, Taylor McCleary, Abdalla Abdel-Rahman, Erica Parker, Pam Rogers, Andrea Valarezo Guerrero, Adrie Buendia, Asiel Mora, John J. Ballback, Ruth Durham, Carrie Jordan, Horizons Dance Theatre LLC, Patricia Slaughter, Patty Slaughter Victoria Calamusa, Sharlie Khan, Cheryl Connor Lewis, Paige Dixon, Marye Dillion, Paul Shelley, Janet Mabley and Vicki Graham.

Much thanks to Angela Connor Dutton for championing the Fund Raising for this cause.

You all made several families in Makoko to not go hungry.

God Bless you all.

To God be all the Glory!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Warm Regards!
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.
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Phase 2-4 tributes still on the way. Thanks for partnering with us in reaching thousands of people this period.

From Makoko with Love...The Makoko Dream Story of HOPE in this Lockdown period.

Good News! Day 3 of The Makoko Dream Phase 3 Food Relief Programme was a huge success. This time, we reached out to 72 more families.

This brings the tally of families reached out to in this period to 467 Families (395 plus 72)

Each family got a sizeable portion of Beans, Tin tomatoes, Spaghetti and Palm Oil.

With this a family of 4 or 5 can have food for some days.

Many thanks to all the donors and supporters.

Many thanks to you all that have been sharing and liking our posts. It goes a long way.

To support, please send to

The Makoko Dream Foundation
1016073859
Zenith Bank.

Or Venmo if you are in the US.

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Day 3 was awesome, watch out for DAY 4, It will be more awesome.

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.

Day 2. 68 Families.
Location: Makoko, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.
District: Migbewe 2

Breaking News! 68 more families in Makoko got to receive palliatives from The Makoko Dream team in this COVID-19 enforced Lockdown period in Lagos, Nigeria.

It is DAY 2 in the Phase 3 of The Makoko Dream Food Relief Project for indigenes of Makoko and we are seeing lives being helped daily.

This time, we tried implementing Social Distancing in our process of sharing the Items.

We also had children in The Makoko Dream School area come volunteer to package things for themselves and families and that of their friends.

Many thanks to the Fundraising team, led by Angela Connor Dutton Angela and the implementation team led by Benjamin Aide in Makoko Community.

With this feat, it brings the total number of families reached out to thus far to 395(327 plus 68).

Each Family gets a Sizeable portion of Beans, Garri and Palm Oil.

Day 2 was awesome, but watch out for Day 3, it is going to be super super awesome.

Many thanks to all those who have been supporting and liking or sharing our posts. It goes a long way in creating awareness for more persons to support.

To see more awesome work we have been doing, simply go to the hashtag

To God be all the Glory!

The Makoko Dream...One Touch...Many Lives.

Warm Regards,
Emmanuel Agunze(The Makoko Prince)
Founder, The Makoko Dream
Lagos, Nigeria.