President/Founder

Temitope Richard Fashakin is a social entrepreneur, educator and businessman. He is the founder of Giving Aid International Network (GAIN). This Nigerian-based organization, established in 2017, has earned a sterling reputation for assisting economic disempowered students get access to funding for quality education. The Founder has facilitated over five billion naira in scholarship funds and fellowship opportunities for a diverse spectrum of young people who would have been otherwise deprived of the transformative experience of world-class higher education.

Temitope Fashakin’s entrepreneurial spirit has also led him to set up a fashion-and-food services brand, Farii Ideas and Concept Services, and to nurture it into a top brand in Victoria Island, Lagos. In furtherance of his passion for social entrepreneurship, Temitope Fashakin established Quality, Price, Availability & Time (Qpat) Solutions, an outfit designed to provide cost-friendly educational services to schools and organizations. Qpat Solutions has made its services available to students from more than a hundred schools in Nigeria. The average SAT achievement score of Qpat beneficiaries ranks consistently above 1300 /1600.

Temitope Fashakin is the founder of the education & literacy-based organizations bookspals.org and scholarsinresidence.org. He is also a donor to ted.com , a global leader in the dissemination of innovative ideas. And he has been a member of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Yali Network and the United States Information Resource Center.

Temitope Richard Fashakin studied Electrical and Electronics engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University after finishing his secondary school education at the Federal Government College, Okigwe, Imo State. His abiding passion for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment, which he began cultivating during his undergraduate studies, informed his founding of QPAT Solutions. The numerous students that have benefited from the organization's services, including 10 currently on full international scholarship, have received in excess of $5million in funding value.

Temitope Fashakin believes in giving back to his community, and he has dedicated his life to doing such. That commitment was inspired by the legacy of his parents, especially his mother, whose devotion to putting disadvantaged families in her community on the path to economic independence by providing them with training and lift-off funds was exemplary and Temitope Fashakin has passed the baton on to the next generation by supporting a kindred passion in his daughter. At the age 10, she co-founded NaijaKidsGivingBack. In under 4 years, NaijaKidsGivingBack has distributed food, clothing, books, toys and computers worth over ten million naira to children in nine communities.

Temitope Richard Fashakin, a Nigerian born and United States permanent resident. He is one of the few Nigerians in diaspora making positive impact on the Nigerian youths