About us

Impact. Opportunity. Integrity.

BCO Foundation — the Benjamin Chukwuka Onuoha Foundation — exists so that where someone is born stops deciding what they get to become.

Why we exist

Across Nigeria, capable people are held back by things that have nothing to do with ability: the cost of a meal, the cost of a course, the absence of anyone to introduce them to their first job. Charity alone does not close that gap, and training alone does not feed a family.

So the foundation does both, deliberately in sequence. We meet immediate need through humanitarian aid, then we open a real route out of it: free training, a place to build something in public, and partners who hire. Relief and opportunity in the same hand.

It began quietly on 2 September 2026 with a community outreach, and it is being built in the open — with published programmes, named accounts and reporting anyone can check.

Volunteers and community members at the BCO Foundation pre-launch outreach

Our four programme areas

Each area stands on its own, and each one feeds the next.

Humanitarian aid & wellbeing

Relief keeps a family alive today; care restores the strength to rebuild tomorrow. We pair direct material support with mental health and psychosocial support, because hunger, displacement and financial shock leave wounds that food alone does not heal.

  • Direct relief: food and water, hygiene and household essentials, and emergency cash support for verified vulnerable households — as we did at the 2 September 2026 outreach.
  • Community listening circles: safe, unstigmatised peer support groups held in local spaces and led by trained community facilitators and health workers.
  • Counselling access: free or subsidised one-to-one support for young people, single mothers and families facing bereavement, trauma or acute distress.
  • Dignity first: recipients are treated as neighbours, with privacy and follow-up, not as names on a distribution list.
Education & training

High-value skills should not be gated by tuition or postcode. Our training runs on Koinos, our separate learning platform, as structured cohorts that take a curious beginner to someone who can ship real work.

  • Tracks: web foundations, React and TypeScript, AI engineering, and payments and financial systems — each four weeks, each cohort-based.
  • How a cohort runs: four-week sprints of self-paced lessons, live clinics with practitioners, and small accountability groups so nobody drifts.
  • Proof, not certificates: learners take quizzes, submit real project work, and earn badges and points that build a visible record of what they can actually do.
  • The next step is built in: the strongest graduates move straight into our build sprints, so learning ends in a working product rather than a PDF.
Work & opportunities

Most prototypes die the week the sprint ends. This pillar exists to carry the best of them across that gap — into registered, fundable companies and real jobs.

  • Build sprints: mixed teams spend weeks on urgent problems — payments and giving rails, health logistics, civic systems — testing both the product and the team.
  • Twelve-week venture studio: the strongest teams get workspace, technical and product mentorship, and build stipends to reach a usable first version.
  • Compliance clinics: company registration, founder and share agreements, tax registration and clearance, and trademark and intellectual property filings — done with them, not explained at them.
  • Placement and capital: demo days in front of investors, plus introductions into hiring partners for founders and engineers who want a job rather than a company.
Community engagement

Lasting change is not delivered to a community; it is led by one. We organise and equip local networks to protect their own health and hold their own institutions to account.

  • Safe health practices: grassroots drives on clean water and sanitation, maternal and child health, and disease prevention, organised through town halls, markets and faith and trade associations.
  • Behaviour change communication: campaigns in local languages through community radio, peer advocates and town criers, on vaccine uptake, hygiene and reducing the stigma around mental health.
  • Election integrity: we recruit and train non-partisan citizen observers who record results at their own polling unit — photographing the signed result sheet and keying in the figures with time and location attached.
  • Checks that catch problems: figures are tested automatically — party votes plus rejected ballots must match the total, and votes cast can never exceed accredited voters — and any later replacement sheet is kept alongside the original rather than overwriting it, so every claim traces back to a source document.
  • Year-round civic town halls where residents question local leaders on budgets, services and infrastructure priorities.
BCO Foundation programme areas: humanitarian aid, education and training, work and opportunities, community engagement

How we work

Impact

Every naira and every hour is measured against people served, skills gained and jobs created — published, not implied.

Opportunity

Talent is everywhere; access is not. We remove cost, distance and gatekeeping from the path to good work.

Integrity

Traceable giving. Named accounts, referenced transfers, and reporting a donor can check without asking us.

Koinos is a separate learning and opportunity platform, with its own site. Visit Koinos.

Where we are going

  1. 2 September 2026

    Pre-launch outreach

    The foundation began with a birthday outreach — food and essentials distributed alongside volunteers and community members.

  2. From September 2026

    Transparent giving

    Campaigns connect supporters in Nigeria and abroad with clearly stated needs, visible goals and accountable reporting.

  3. What comes next

    Programmes shaped with communities

    Humanitarian support, education, work opportunities and community participation will grow around needs identified with the people involved.

The founder

Ben Onuoha, MBA

Founder, BCO Foundation · Co-founder, Africa Blockchain Alliance · Lagos, Nigeria

Ben Onuoha has spent over a decade building technology communities across Africa. He co-founded Africa Blockchain Alliance, served as Country Head for the Algorand Foundation in Nigeria, led community at Easyshare.Africa, and helped coordinate Ethereum community programmes on the continent.

He has spoken at developer and industry events from Lagos to Nairobi to Osaka on using emerging technology to solve real problems in Africa, and writes on why more Africans should be building the systems they depend on.

BCO Foundation is the personal continuation of that work — training and opportunity paired with direct humanitarian support, in the communities he comes from. It launched from a birthday outreach on 2 September 2026.

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