Out of the 244 million children aged 6 to 18, not in school, more than 40%, or 98 million of them, live in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria (20.2 million), Ethiopia (10.5), the Democratic Republic of Congo (5.9) and Kenya (1.8), according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Education is important in the upbringing of every child. Access to good education can serve as a window to a world of possibility. When any society denies a child access to education, such society will not cease to battle poverty and violence. There are many boy children across Africa who are being forced into child labour, war and violence. Our mission in Africa is to educate the boy children who will grow up to choose to do what is right for their immediate society and the world at large.
In the UK, the law makes it mandatory for every child to be in school. It becomes a criminal offence for parents who choose to deny any child education. This is not the case in Africa. Hence the need to help boy children return to school.
Our mission is to help 500 boy children (in the next five years) in Nigeria (Africa) who are out of school to return to school.
Our long-term goal is to build free primary schools across Africa where education for children is either not affordable, available or accessible.
If you want to sponsor a boychild back to school or donate books, kindly find out how you can do that here.
The greatest gifts to give to any child are two things- Education and Protection. Children cannot give the world anything more than they have received from the same world. If we want peaceful men in our societies, we need to raise peaceful children. If we want a tolerant and prosperous society, then we must empower our children with such virtue- Michael O’ Adetu