About Us

ABOUT US

River and Tree of Life Foundation Inc. is a Non-Profit Corporation registered in the United States under 501(C)(3) with (IRS Tax deductible status). RATOLF focuses on fundraising for homeless people in the United States and for the Save Abandoned and Molested Children in Africa campaign. We plan to roll out in 6 nations: United States, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Gabon, and Antigua & Barbuda.We have already started in USA and Nigeria.

RATOLF is also a registered non-profit and public benefit organization in two other nations: South Africa, registration number 2010/017675/08 and Nigeria, registration number CAC/IT/NO 112169.

River and Tree of Life Foundation Nigeria (RATOLF) is an organization dedicated to the support of the Neglected and Abandoned children, Ministries, Prisons, Youth, and Community empowerment. Our attention isalsoon churches, as well as ministries, supporting them by offering strategic programs which will assist them in the acquisition and development of leadership knowledge that will help in Church/Ministry growth.

HISTORY

River and Tree of Life Foundation was founded by River and Tree of Life Ministries South Africa in 2010 and has been a blessing to the people of South Africa in several ways.

RATOLF has been involved in youth empowerment and community outreaches by helping the poor, feeding the needy, assisting the homeless and the less privileged, as well as helping orphans. RATOLF has been serving South Africa in two provinces: Gauteng and Northwest, through supporting Early Childhood Education programs, and being involved in community services. RATOLF has also been supporting the poor, the needy, and the elderly with food parcels and clothing, etc.

Now, RATOLF is extending the same love to Nigeria, and other African nations. Be part of the vision by supporting the River and Tree of Life Foundation today.

PASTOR
ADEKUNLE Remmy-green PETER

Story Behind River and Tree of Life Foundation (RATOLF)

I started this foundation River and Tree of Life Foundation - RATOLF because of the Vow I made with God. My growing up is very hard and painful, I did not enjoy most of my teenage life. I went through pain and agony as I was growing up, I was helpless, abused, neglected, and experienced homelessness many times. I did not have a brother, sister, or uncle to help me.

I put all my trust only in God. I prayed to God that if He could help me and make me great in life, I will help the poor. I went through fire in life in the form of trials, and I nearly gave up.

I cried to God one day and I told God that this pain was too much for me. I told God that He is the only one that I have, and asked Him, “Why do You hate me so much and allow me to go through this pain? WHY ME?” Then God answered, “WHY NOT YOU? Because you can’t give what you don’t have.” God said that He was training me so that you could understand what pain all is about. He said that in the future when I see children or people in pain I would be there for them and help them out.

I was born in a very poor family in Epe Lagos State Nigeria and my father had married 3 wives, my mother being the second wife. In Nigeria, when you are born into a polygamous family that will be the beginning of your warfare. My father was a professional fisherman just like Apostle Peter in the Bible. My father was illiterate as he did not go to school, and fishing was his trade all his life.

My father married my mother as a second wife because of what Yoruba call (Abiku). Abiku refers to the spirits of children who die before reaching puberty; a child who dies before twelve years of age is called an Abiku. According to Yoruba tradition, abiku is a spirit of a child who dies young, the belief is that the spirit returns to the same mother multiple times to be reborn multiple times. It is the belief that the spirit does not ever plan to "stay put in life" so it is indifferent to the plight of its mother and her grief. According to the wisdom of man in the life of my father, coupled with the counsel of men, he was advised to take a second wife. Peradventure, if he married the second wife the spirit might leave him alone, but unfortunately, it was not so. Immediately my mother became pregnant the spirit jumped into her life as well and she lost he first and second child. I remain the firstborn of my mother today but at the beginning of her marital life, it was not so.

According to the frame of God, He laid into the heart of my maternal grandfather to pick me up while I was still being breastfed. I was one year old when I started staying with my grandparents and they promised to take good care of me. Thus, I lived with my grandparent until their death. Little did I know that these would be the best years of my childhood.

3 Tragedies that happened to me within 3 years

My grandfather died in 1978, my grandmother died a year later, and my father died in early 1981, 3 years after my grandfather died. These 3 tragedies caused me a lot of pain in life as I was growing up. My father died while I was in my first year of secondary school. I became helpless and empty when my father died because there was no one to help me.

PASTOR ADEKUNLE Remmy-green PETER

Story Behind River and Tree of Life Foundation (RATOLF)

I started this foundation River and Tree of Life Foundation - RATOLF because of the Vow I made with God. My growing up is very hard and painful, I did not enjoy most of my teenage life. I went through pain and agony as I was growing up, I was helpless, abused, neglected, and experienced homelessness many times. I did not have a brother, sister, or uncle to help me. I put all my trust only in God. I prayed to God that if He could help me and make me great in life, I will help the poor. I went through fire in life in the form of trials, and I nearly gave up.

3 Tragedies that happened to me within 3 years

My grandfather died in 1978, my grandmother died a year later, and my father died in early 1981, 3 years after my grandfather died. These 3 tragedies caused me a lot of pain in life as I was growing up. My father died while I was in my first year of secondary school. I became helpless and empty when my father died because there was no one to help me.

....Story Behind River and Tree of Life Foundation

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I put all my trust only in God. I prayed to God that if He could help me and make me great in life, I will help the poor. I went through fire in life in the form of trials, and I nearly gave up.

I cried to God one day and I told God that this pain was too much for me. I told God that He is the only one that I have, and asked Him, “Why do You hate me so much and allow me to go through this pain? WHY ME?” Then God answered, “WHY NOT YOU? Because you can’t give what you don’t have.” God said that He was training me so that you could understand what pain all is about. He said that in the future when I see children or people in pain I would be there for them and help them out.

I was born in a very poor family in Epe Lagos State Nigeria and my father had married 3 wives, my mother being the second wife. In Nigeria, when you are born into a polygamous family that will be the beginning of your warfare. My father was a professional fisherman just like Apostle Peter in the Bible. My father was illiterate as he did not go to school, and fishing was his trade all his life.

My father married my mother as a second wife because of what Yoruba call (Abiku). Abiku refers to the spirits of children who die before reaching puberty; a child who dies before twelve years of age is called an Abiku. According to Yoruba tradition, abiku is a spirit of a child who dies young, the belief is that the spirit returns to the same mother multiple times to be reborn multiple times. It is the belief that the spirit does not ever plan to "stay put in life" so it is indifferent to the plight of its mother and her grief. According to the wisdom of man in the life of my father, coupled with the counsel of men, he was advised to take a second wife. Peradventure, if he married the second wife the spirit might leave him alone, but unfortunately, it was not so. Immediately my mother became pregnant the spirit jumped into her life as well and she lost her first and second child. I remain the firstborn of my mother today but at the beginning of her marital life, it was not so.

According to the frame of God, He laid into the heart of my maternal grandfather to pick me up while I was still being breastfed. I was one year old when I started staying with my grandparents and they promised to take good care of me. Thus, I lived with my grandparent until their death. Little did I know that these would be the best years of my childhood.

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....3 Tragedies that happened to me within 3 years

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My uncle had four children then and education was so expensive at that particular time. The military had taken over the government in Nigeria and had swiftly put a stop to free education. The Ogun State government changed the education policy whereby every secondary student must pay school fees. My uncle was a teacher, as we all know the government doesn’t pay good salaries to teachers, and he had to pay the school fees of his four children, and he could not afford to pay my tuition fees. My mother also could not pay for my tuition fees because she had no job or business. I was left to carry my cross at the age of 13 years.

There was no one to help me and as a result I had to do odd jobs here and there after school hours. At the close of school each day at 2 pm I would resume at the sawmill for odd jobs. This was what I did throughout my secondary school to pay for my school fees, and buy my school uniforms, shoes, clothing, and other necessities because there was no one to help.

As a result of the suffering, I went through when I was growing up, when I see someone suffering around me, I always give the little that I have to help all the ones I can because I don’t like seeing people suffering in my surroundings. That is why I started this foundation with my wife Mwaka Peter over 12 years ago using our income to help people in South Africa and Nigeria.

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MOTTO:

" Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh? "
- Isiah 58:6-7

OUR PURPOSE

Our Vision, Mission, and Beliefs

We believe God is moving hearts to give like never before, from the nooks and crannies of the world. So, we want to be there – on the frontline of this modern-day generosity movement, and we’re here to help you be a part of it too.

Our Vision, Mission, and Beliefs

We believe God is moving hearts to give like never before, from the nooks and crannies of the world. So, we want to be there – on the frontline of this modern-day generosity movement, and we’re here to help you be a part of it too.

OUR SUPPORT AREAS

The possibilities for support, include funding and organizing: Neglected and Abandoned Children, Christian counseling, Training soldiers for the Lord, Seminars for people suffering from depression, Christian Training on Entrepreneurship to the community, Supporting the poor and the needy, and the elderly with food parcels and clothing, etc.

Community Outreach/Community Impact
Youth Empowerment
Prison Outreach
Global Outreach
Helping the Orphans
School of Worship
Building Projects
Land Purchases
Church and Ministries Registration.
Media Ministries
Ministry Interns
Ministry Interns

The possibilities for support, include funding and organizing: Neglected and Abandoned Children, Christian counseling, Training soldiers for the Lord, Seminars for people suffering from depression, Christian Training on Entrepreneurship to the community, Supporting the poor and the needy, and the elderly with food parcels and clothing, etc.

Community Outreach/Community Impact
Youth Empowerment
Prison Outreach
Global Outreach
Helping the Orphans
School of Worship
Building Projects
Land Purchases
Church and Ministries Registration.
Media Ministries
Ministry Interns
Ministry Interns

Our
Commitments

River and Tree of Life Foundation generate and provides resources for strategic projects and outreaches, into the local and global communities, while communicating the love of Jesus Christ in practical and tangible ways. River and Tree of Life Foundation support the expansion of small communities, small Churches / Ministries, Youth Empowerment, Prison outreaches. RATOLF Engages young people through community-based Education, Mentoring, and Training on how to choose their careers, for those brilliant students who would like to study abroad, we will connect them with the best universities in the world. RATOLF will engage the youth on how to be involved in entrepreneurship in the future and rollout employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties with the kingdom of God, family, and community. In this way, the church can reach more individuals in their community and around the world, helping them in spiritual and tangible ways.

The Foundation also will provide an excellent stewardship opportunity for those seeking to invest in the Kingdom of God. The foundation will utilize funds received for projects in both the short term and long term. The funds will be promptly put to work where they can have a significant and immediate impact, while other funds will be responsibly invested to meet future needs.

The Foundation’s Board of Trustees would evaluate all applications based on need and without partiality or restriction in the field of sectarian religion. We would invite you to submit an application if your Church,community, and your Ministry meets one or more of the objectives of the River and Tree of Life Foundation.