Our Impact
Every grant we disburse is a promise kept. Below are the ongoing projects and completed grants that have been funded by the TAD Charitable Foundation — each one representing a real person, a real family, or a real community in Timbo, Guinea and beyond.
In the Dabola, Timbo sector — just 6 kilometers from the heart of Timbo — a community has been praying outdoors for years. The TAD Foundation has approved a $15,000 grant to the Islamic Association of Dabola-Timbo to help build a community mosque with a 300-person prayer hall, minaret, solar panels, and ablution spaces.
Phase 1 complete: The foundation is poured, the masonry is finished, and the walls are standing. Thirty community volunteers worked on site under the supervision of a civil engineer. Phase 2 — roofing and interior finishing — is now underway.
Timeline: April 2026 – September 2026 • Location: Dabola, Timbo Sub-Prefecture, Guinea
Help us complete this mosqueGrants already disbursed to individuals and families across the Guinean community — in reverse chronological order.
This school year, the TAD Foundation is supporting 20 students at École Primaire Publique de Timbo Centre with school supplies, a backpack, a daily meal, and a brand-new uniform — hand-measured and sewn by a local tailor in Timbo — covering the full 2026–2027 school year. For these 20 children, it means showing up to class fed, equipped, and dressed with dignity, from 1st through 5th year.
When it rained at École Primaire Publique de Timbo Centre, class stopped. Three classrooms had roofs so damaged that rain poured directly onto students, with ceilings collapsed and floors cracked. The Sous-Préfet, the Mayor of Timbo, and the school's Principal jointly signed an emergency funding request. The TAD Foundation approved $4,510 for new roofing, rebuilt ceilings, repaired floors, and restored windows across all three classrooms. School is back in session — with a roof overhead.
The TAD Foundation's inaugural Academic Excellence Award honored the top 5 students in each of Timbo Centre's ten grade levels for the 2025–2026 school year — 50 students in all, recognized purely on official GPA rankings, with no application required. Each grade level received a $330 award pool, distributed by rank as $110, $88, $66, $44, and $22, for a total of $3,300 disbursed.
Amadou, a young man from Timbo Centre, faced a life-threatening intestinal obstruction requiring urgent surgery — care his $35 monthly income could never cover on its own. He applied through the foundation's website from his phone, and the board reviewed and approved $330 that same day, transferred immediately by mobile money to cover his surgery and medication. Amadou is recovering.
Before the Association Yirde Koudeko (AYK) created the Olympiades de Timbo, the national exam pass rate in Timbo was zero. After year one: 120 admitted. After year two: 124. For the third edition — April 29 to May 2, 2026 — the TAD Foundation funded the full $1,470 budget, covering meals for 133 students over 4 days, prizes for top performers, and teacher stipends.
Fara is the sole health agent for the Kokiya district in the Timbo Sub-Prefecture — a husband, a father, and the first call for hundreds of families at every birth, fever, and midnight emergency. The community started building him a 2-bedroom residence but ran out of funds halfway through. The TAD Foundation approved $1,875 to complete the work in two phases: wall plastering and a concrete entrance step (Phase 1), followed by a hand-crafted geometric wood ceiling with octagonal panels and carved diamond accents (Phase 2). The residence is complete. Fara is permanently on-site.
Maka is a 77-year-old retired professor from the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Conakry who taught generations of students from Timbo. Living with arterial hypertension, he applied for help buying his monthly medication. We approved a one-time grant — and hope to make this support monthly, subject to funding availability.
Aissata, 75, a daughter of Timbo, cares for her paralyzed husband in Conakry while managing her own diabetes and hypertension. With a pension of $30 a month against $50 in essential expenses, she faced an impossible choice every month. Our $500 medical grant ensures she can attend her consultations at Hôpital Ignace Deen without compromise.
Binta, a 52-year-old daughter of Timbo living in Conakry, earns $35 a month while her expenses reach $240. She did not wait to be found — she applied to the TAD Foundation herself, with quiet dignity, for help preparing Ramadan meals. Our $200 emergency food grant gave her the space to fast in peace.
For Ramadan 2026, the TAD Foundation supported 33 indigent elders in Timbo, Guinea with emergency food grants totaling $7,065. Most were elderly women living on as little as $20 a month. Every grant was delivered in person, directly into their hands — no intermediaries, no bureaucracy, just dignity.
These stories happened because someone chose to give. Help us tell more of them — in Timbo, across Guinea, and throughout the Guinean diaspora community.
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