About the MOSAK Foundation

Every foundation begins with a story, and ours begins with a boy for whom school was never guaranteed. Moses Akurugu Ade-Ena grew up where education was a yearly negotiation — between harvests and fees, between hope and arithmetic. Some years the arithmetic won. What kept his journey alive was never luck alone: it was a teacher who waived a fee, a neighbour who sold something precious, a stranger who decided one child's future was worth an inconvenience.

He carried those debts through secondary school and university, and discovered they could not be repaid — only forwarded. For years he did this quietly: fees settled without ceremony, books that appeared when they were needed, long evenings mentoring students who reminded him of himself.

The MOSAK Foundation is that private habit made public and permanent. It is named work now, with a structure sturdy enough to outlive its founder: four pillars, a flagship scholarship that leaves nothing uncovered, and a leadership pledge that turns every scholar into the next door-opener.

We keep our numbers deliberately small — five scholars a cohort, supported completely — because Moses learned from his own journey that half a scholarship rescues no one. The fee waived in one term means little if hunger ends the next. MOSAK stays until graduation. That is the whole model, and the whole point.