Our Team
Leadership
Sopuruchi Godsfriend Christian
President
Sopuruchi
Sopuruchi Godsfriend Christian ‘Uncle Sop’, is the President of Precious Fountain Foundation, PFF. He’s also studying for a PhD. at UBC. He’s a teacher, and he loves empowering young people with personal leadership skills and children with foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
Uncle SOP tries his best to be humble and make the world a better place. He’s a father and a husband, and he mentors a sizable number of young people.
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji
Director, Fundraising and Development
Gideon
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji was born in Niger State, Nigeria. Because of the challenges he faced while growing up, especially with the inadequacy of quality education, he grew to develop a passion to provide quality education to children especially in rural areas. This informed his pursuit of degrees geared to this end. Apart from bagging a Doctorate Degree in English Language, he has consistently built his professional focus around providing quality education.
Notable amongst these engagements is his training on TaRL methodology in Nairobi in 2023. Gideon has been a teacher and loves to provide opportunities to teach and train teachers on best practices in providing quality education. Apart from being a teacher, Gideon sits as a board member of Precious Fountain Foundation where he currently brainstorms with other team members on a project that provides quality education for children in slum settlements and rural areas in Southern- Western Nigeria. Gideon loves to sing and network with people.
Iyanuoluwa Odunayo Christian
Director, Finance
Iyanuoluwa
Iyanuoluwa Odunayo Christian was born in Akure, Ondo state. Growing up, like most children, she wanted to be whomever was the most exciting that week, from being a pilot to an astronaut, an actor etc. She studied Medicine and Surgery at the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U). Her education has played a major role in who she is today, she is a licensed and practicing physician. One of the skills she learned in medical school is multitasking and she has been able to put it in practice at the Precious Fountain Foundation. As a medical doctor, being able to help people in need has been one of the most important things in her career, particularly female adolescents. She is an executive member of Precious Fountain Foundation (PFF).
Beyond her medical career, she is interested in coding, she developed an interest in tech and she has been taking courses and training to become an expert. Mr Sop inspires me, through his commitment to the personal growth and development of the team. Abisola is also an inspiration to me through her dedication to PFF.
Abisola
Director, Programs and Partnership
Abisola
Abisola was born in Asaba, Delta state. Growing up, she had always wanted to be a medical doctor. She wanted to be a gynaecologist, due to her love for pregnant mothers and their new born babies. She had her secondary education at Niger Mixed Secondary School Asaba. She studied Microbiology at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.
She has further developed professional skills in leadership, project management, first aid and administration even while in school and she has given herself to volunteering in these capacities. She graduated with a second class upper division and has found a career path in Children Education (Foundational Literacy and Numeracy) and public health research.
She is currently the Director of programmes and partnership with Precious Foundation Foundation (PFF). Abisola has grown a great deal through volunteering. She has risen from being just a volunteer with the Nigerian Red Cross society into being a certified practical first aider with other certifications in view. She is a TaRL African Fellow, trained and certified Teaching at The Right Level Master Trainer (TaRL) she was trained by TaRL Africa, Nairobi, where she was trained with skills in foundational learning to help young learners with learning difficulty. As an alumnus of the Young Researcher’s Hub (OAU) she has attended academic conferences and research training.
She has also been shaped into an exceptional programmes manager and leader through working with PFF. Her journey of growth has not been without challenges but she found many reasons to push as she envisions a glorious destination, where Africans build Africa.
Ultimately she found God as her source of strength. She loves reading, traveling, singing, engaging in meaningful discussions and meeting people of like minds. She is interested in children with congenital disorders (special kids) and the overall well-being of young adults. She loves coordination and orderliness. She has managed and co-managed various projects for PFF; Project Restrategise, Youth and Teens Seminar, monthly seminars, Ufodo Summer school, International Leadership Boot camp amongst others. She serves as a strong support for the project managers in PFF.
Abisola is not much of a favorite quote person but she likes to say “All is well” Mr Sopuruchi Christian (Uncle Sop) inspires her a lot, his servant-leadership model has been a strong foundation for her leadership and growth journey. Mrs Iyanulowa Christian’s gentility also inspires her, she is a true definition of strength, resilience and excellence. Her mum Mrs Toyin Mustapha is her biggest inspiration and fan, she describes her as “a woman of substance”.