We're a Nigerian non-profit standing with families through brain-tumour diagnosis, treatment, and recovery — and the education, outreach, and healthcare access that hold a family together.
To promote awareness and support for individuals with brain‑tumours, and to empower underprivileged students, widows, and orphanages while facilitating good community health services with a focus on wellness.
What this looks like in practice: standing with families through a brain‑tumour journey, educational assistance for underprivileged students, charitable outreach to widows and orphanages, and healthcare access for the communities we reach.
A compassionate society where those affected by brain‑tumours receive the support they need — and where widows, underprivileged students and orphans are empowered to lead fulfilling lives, free from stigma and hardship.
How we'll know we got there: families facing a diagnosis no longer walk alone, students and widows find their footing, and care reaches communities with dignity and without stigma.
At the heart of this foundation is Bolu — a young woman whose life and journey touched everyone around her deeply. When Bolu was diagnosed with a brain tumour at just 25, her family experienced firsthand the emotional, physical, and financial weight of such a diagnosis.
The hospital visits, uncertainty, fear, prayers, treatments and moments of hope became a journey no family is ever prepared for. But even in that difficult season, one thing remained constant: compassion. The foundation was created to ensure that no individual or family facing a brain‑tumour journey has to walk alone.
We run four programmes — brain‑tumour awareness & support, educational assistance, charitable outreach, and healthcare access & community wellness. It stands as a living legacy of Bolu's strength, kindness, and impact, because healing is not only medical — it is emotional, financial, spiritual, and human.
Each programme answers a specific gap families told us they hit — clinical, financial, educational, or simply human. They run in parallel, not in sequence.
From first symptoms to long-term care: helplines, family counselling, scan and surgery navigation, and post-treatment recovery groups for the families we walk with.
We empower underprivileged students — covering fees, tutoring, and school support so that hardship does not stand between a child and their education.
Community-wide work: support for widows and orphanages, care for families travelling for treatment, and standing with people through their most difficult seasons.
Facilitating good community health services with a focus on wellness — helping to close the distance between communities and the care they need.
A six-month mobile-clinic programme bringing free neurological screening, education sessions, and onward-referral support to communities furthest from tertiary care. Twelve early-stage cases caught and routed to surgery.
Funded full-year tuition, books, and tutoring for 42 children returning to school after treatment.
Opened a 14-bed hostel for families travelling to UCH for treatment. 6-month occupancy: 89%.
Two-day gathering for 180 families and clinicians — published a national patient-rights brief.
A gift to BSF moves immediately into one of four programmes. Most donors give once. The families we serve don't get to make the diagnosis a one-time event — so if you can, please consider monthly.
A 5km morning walk on World Brain Tumour Day. Families, clinicians, and supporters together — followed by a community brunch at the foundation house.
Two days of clinician panels, family workshops, and policy conversations. Keynote by a leading West African neurosurgeon. Travel bursaries available for affected families.
A run held in Boluwatiwi's memory. All proceeds support students and families through our programmes. Runners and walkers welcome — slow finishes celebrated.
Two evenings of training for new volunteers: hospital bedside protocols, family communication, outreach logistics. Open to clinicians, students, and anyone over 18 with a steady heart.