What we are choosing to do now.
Driven by conviction. Showing up everywhere. Now fighting for our own.
For seventeen years, building young people and communities has been at the heart of everything Kingsley and I do. The KNOSK ₦100-a-Day Charity School in Abuja — which now reaches 176 children from the poorest households — was born from a shared conviction that every child deserves a future. Kingsley's three decades through Youngstars Foundation, ASHOKA, and the Young Global Leaders network, and my own work through Raising Girls, shaping thousands of young women worldwide — all of it grows from the same place: a deep belief that where you show up, you give your best.
We have always shown up. And we are showing up now — for our own daughters.
Briona has been through things no teenager should face. She was diagnosed with a bone condition that destroys the joints, and it left her walking with crutches for over a year. In October 2025, she had a total hip replacement at the age of 14. According to her orthopaedic surgeon, she was the youngest patient ever to have that surgery at her hospital.
Elena had hip surgery the same month. Both girls are still in pain.
Neither has stopped dreaming. Briona wants to become a biomedical engineer and build something that changes lives across Africa. Elena wants to become a paediatrician — because she has needed one all her life.
A bone marrow transplant is the only known cure for sickle cell disease. We had heard of it for years but never explored it — we were told it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Recently, we were introduced to a hospital in India that has performed this treatment successfully for years, at approximately $60,000 per child.
For the first time, the cure is within reach. We need $150,000 for both bone marrow transplants and approximately nine months of stay in India.
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