From a building in Owo to thought-leadership for the nation, the Foundation carries forward Pa Ajasin's lifelong project: educate the child, train the leader, defend democracy, lift the village.
The four areas the Foundation was established to advance, drawn from its founding charter and the life work of its namesake.
Pa Ajasin was the linchpin of the Free Education and 6-3-3-4 policy programmes in the old Western Region. The Foundation continues his work through educational policies and methodologies, research and teacher development, and child development, supported by research, training, workshops, conferences, publications, grants, prizes, and awards.
Pa Ajasin lived a disciplined, committed life in the struggle for the rights and socio-economic emancipation of his people. The Foundation extends this through youth training camps, workshops, community action, and the formation of responsible community and national leadership.
Decades of military intrusion damaged Nigeria's democratic instincts. The Foundation reorients younger generations through the monitoring of democratic processes, public discourse, social advocacy, and education of those born into the military era, restoring civic values in the home, on the streets, in private and public life.
As Governor of Old Ondo State, Pa Ajasin's projects reached deep into rural communities. The Foundation continues that orientation through community action and projects in education infrastructure, local capacity, and social development, anchored in his native Owo and extending outward.
The Foundation's headquarters in Pa Ajasin's hometown houses a research library, a museum, a classroom, offices, a hall, and a 3-bedroom chalet, opened by President Olusegun Obasanjo, represented by Minister Olusegun Mimiko.
A Lagos liaison office operates at 1, Hussey Street, Yaba, handling partnership and advocacy work beyond Ondo State.
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A specialist research library and gallery of art, built around Pa Ajasin's personal acquisitions: books, journals, and reference materials accumulated across a lifetime of teaching and public service.
The collection includes cultural and political documents, especially those of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, the Action Group (AG), the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), and Afenifere, alongside government journals, gazettes, and other documents of considerable historical value to scholars of Nigerian political history.
Two Owo indigenes, sponsored by the Foundation to ICDL Abuja, return to the centre each year to teach local students the computer skills that open the next door. The photograph, taken in the centre itself, captures the work as it is.
We are honest about what the centre is today: equipped, but not yet what it is meant to be. The need for newer machines, faster connectivity, and a wider curriculum is real. Partnering here means equipping the next cohort.
Partner with the ICT CentreThe 6-3-3-4 system Pa Ajasin championed put millions of Nigerian children in school. The Foundation extends that work today through scholarships, the ICT centre, the Annual Colloquium, and leadership training. Every gift carries the same project forward, with the same purpose. This is not charity. It is continuation.
Before he became the architect of 6-3-3-4, Pa Ajasin was a schoolmaster. As Principal of Imade College, Owo, from 1947, he stamped his personality of high discipline, hard work, and academic brilliance on thousands of pupils. He founded Owo High School in 1963.
The Foundation's programmes today extend the same project at scale, beyond a single classroom.
Each year the Foundation convenes scholars, policy makers, civil society leaders, and the public to confront a single question of national consequence. The keynote becomes a published monograph, a record that outlasts the moment. The series to date:
Monograph 1
Keynote by Professor Adebayo Adedeji
Monograph 2
Keynote by Professor Sam Aluko
Monograph 3
Keynote by Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa
Keynote by Adedeji · Aluko · Fafunwa
An award for distinguished youth achievers, recognising the kind of public-spirited excellence Pa Ajasin embodied. The prize is companion to the Foundation's annual programmes for academic achievement and community leadership.
Two indigenes of Owo, sponsored by the Foundation to the International Computer Driving Licence programme in Abuja, return each year to teach the skills they acquired to the next cohort of local students. A small loop, run consistently.