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AFRICA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
Working in poor and underserved areas of Nigeria to educate children and empower community members
What we do
- Construct and renovate schools for educating young minds that include:
- Safe, clean learning environments
- Secure, gated perimeter walls
- Boreholes for clean water
- Toilets with handwashing stations for staff and students
- Furniture and equipment
- Provide scholarships of $300/year/student that include:
- Tuition costs
- Books and uniforms
- Room and board for those living on campus
- Routine building maintenance
- Empower marginalized adults through skills training by providing:
- Course offerings by trainers that include sewing/tailoring, barbering, baking/catering, soap/lotion making and others
- Equipment and materials for practicing skills
- Connections to local businesses for support when possible
- Clean water initiative by providing
- Education to community members on the importance or clean water and the development of good hygiene practices
- Portable chlorine generators to sanitize large tanks of standing water
- Bleach kit to create and distribute a sanitizing solution for home/small business use
Why Nigeria?
There is little governmental infrastructure for social services. No welfare, no food banks, little medical care, a broken educational system leaving many without access to schooling, no unemployment benefits…the list is seemingly endless. If we in the U.S. need help, we call out to family, friends and community or government resources. Were we to have none of those resources, we may be forced to make choices that are a reality for many Nigerians. These choices can have dire outcomes, such as the frequent kidnapping and banditry.
There is little physical infrastructure. You may have a place to live but there is no guarantee of safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity, consistent access to food and material items, or personal safety to carry out the activities of daily life.
Nigeria has the largest population and biggest economy in Africa. It is one of the main political influencers on the continent. It is the fifth largest producer of oil - an incredibly important and lucrative global commodity. What happens in Nigeria reverberates throughout Africa and beyond, yet so few understand that connection.
According to UNICEF*, Nigeria has the most out-of-school children in the world. This report was also confirmed by World Bank in a May, 2022, report. In addition, only about 11% of schools in Nigeria have access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Imagine the number of children who suffer from water-borne and other diseases and the impact on an already underdeveloped healthcare system.
*UNICEF.org/nigeria
There is little physical infrastructure. You may have a place to live but there is no guarantee of safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity, consistent access to food and material items, or personal safety to carry out the activities of daily life.
Nigeria has the largest population and biggest economy in Africa. It is one of the main political influencers on the continent. It is the fifth largest producer of oil - an incredibly important and lucrative global commodity. What happens in Nigeria reverberates throughout Africa and beyond, yet so few understand that connection.
According to UNICEF*, Nigeria has the most out-of-school children in the world. This report was also confirmed by World Bank in a May, 2022, report. In addition, only about 11% of schools in Nigeria have access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Imagine the number of children who suffer from water-borne and other diseases and the impact on an already underdeveloped healthcare system.
*UNICEF.org/nigeria