Introduction
About The Millard Fuller Foundation
The Millard Fuller Foundation (MFF) is a faith-driven, non-profit organization which promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships with individuals & organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide on a sustainable basis affordable housing for people in need.
MFF began operations in 2006 as the Nigerian affiliate of the Fuller Center for Housing Inc. (www.fullercenter.org) based in Americus, Georgia, USA. In 2013, Selavip International (www.selavip.org) based in Belgium entered into partnership with MFF to execute projects in Nigeria that were specifically geared towards low-income groups.
Since 2014 MFF has worked with REALL UK (www.reall.net) channeling funds from DFID (now FCDO), SIDA and several other international donor organizations into the housing sector.
More recently, MFF has partnered with another AUHF member, Family Homes Funds, an initiative of the Nigerian Ministry of Finance to deliver affordable housing to Nigerians. The GrandLuvu I and GrandLuvu II Estates built under this partnership are targeted primarily at those earning between N100,000 ($70) and N200,000 ($150) a month.
Between 2016 and 2018 MFF won awards for ‘The Most Affordable Housing project’ in Nigeria. In 2019, the AUHF Secretariat, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance (CAHF) found MFF’s homes to be the ‘Most Affordable’ housing provided by a private developer across the whole continent of Africa.
MFF also seeks to empower the youth by providing building skills training programmes, which have, over the years been greatly supported by the German Government’s Cooperation Agency (GIZ) as well as the Federal Government’s N-Power Programme.
MFF was honoured to host the Nigerian Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo early in 2022 where he dedicated the organization’s 1,000th home and commissioned the 248-unit IFC EDGE-certified GrandLuvu 3B Estate.
MFF is headed by Sam Odia, an architect and Habitat for Humanity veteran while the Project team is led by Funmi Odia, an experienced architect and project management professional.
