About
Us
Adebola Adefioye founded The Afro Women And Youth Foundation after her daughter’s experience of racism in Grade 2. Her daughter was bullied for her skin color and Adebola supported her to build confidence and self-advocate.
After 3 years of demonstrating confidence and resisting Anti-Black racism, she won the “Most Confident Child” award and in Grade 8, she won the Principal’s Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership, respect towards others and being inclusive of everyone’s uniqueness and individualism.
Adebola was inspired to extend more support to other immigrant Black youth and women who may be experiencing racism so she registered the AWYF as a non-profit organization. Over the years with support from various collaborators, sponsors, and community partners, the Afro Women and Youth Foundation’s program and services has reached over a thousand Black immigrant and refugee women and youth in Toronto and Sudbury.
We continue to utilize feedback from program participants, research, strategic partnerships, and collaborations to advance our work.
Our Approach
Our work is delivered from a Strength-Based and Trauma-Informed approach. We also rely on research based data, lived experiences and strategic partnerships and collaborations with organizations of similar interests and funding partners.
