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Afamefuna Atu is the founder and president of Kings Care Foundation [KCF]. Since he graduated, he has been working as a clinician in hospital settings. He provides care for victims of emotionally challenged, psychological trauma and their families. His experiences in dealing with critically ill and dying patients with their families has increasingly nudged him towards not caring for patients but individuals with psychological, social, financial and educational needs as well.  Afamefuna is an advocate of preventive medicine hence he is a fitness freak personality. Most of his leisure time is spent in a gym. His hobbies also includes soccer, reading and traveling

Born in Attakwu, a rural community in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, he holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and United States. When questioned, he is quick to attribute two major events in his past life for his founding of KCF. The first was the stark reality of living in deep and extreme poverty with his parents and six siblings growing up in Attakwu, without adequate food, safe water, proper sanitation, or healthcare. “We went hungry almost every day due to not having enough food to eat,” he remarks, sadly recollecting the health challenges that snuffed out the lives of his maternal grandparents in their prime due to ailments that could be treated for a small amount of money, but which they did not have. His grandmother, he states, died while giving birth to his uncle because of severe anemia caused by nutritional deficiencies. The death of his grandfather was caused by an eye infection he treated with herbal medicine that was largely inefficacious. The death of both grandparents, Afamefuna recalls, brutally destabilized his maternal lineage and “led my mother who was barely two years at the time to become a housemaid to another family at such tender age, thereby perpetuating the cycle of generational poverty.”

Pointing to the wise saying by his father prodding him while yet a teenager, “to never look down on anybody, except, to look down in order to pull them up,” as the second motivation for founding of KCF and interminable charities to the vulnerable, Afemefuna shares: “To be honest with you, I am who I am today because God poured out his extraordinary mercies on me, snatching me from the jaws of generational poverty, hence, my resolve to make sure no one I know or around me goes to bed hungry, or experiences the kind of agony I experienced growing up in extreme poverty.”

Afamefuna holds a Master of Arts in Religion and Ethics with specialization in trauma counseling and ethics, a B.A. in Philosophy. Since graduating, he’s had considerable stint working as a clinician in hospital settings, providing care for victims of emotional and psychological trauma and their families. His lived experience dealing with critically ill and dying patients together with families has increasingly nudged him to not only care for the medically needy, but also individuals with physiological, social and financial and educational needs.

Afamefuna is all about fitness and hence his leisure time is spent in the gym, in addition to indulging in his favourite hobbies – playing soccer, reading, and traveling.