Every child should be given equal educational opportunity to be the best he/she can be. Knowing however, that not every child has the privilege to be sent to school by their parents, the project seeks to extend the educational opportunity to the less privileged, especially the children of widowed, divorced, separated and single parent mothers; as well as help the destitute widows find a means of sustaining their livelihood.
Vulnerable fatherless children are sent to the streets to hawk wares by their mothers to find what to eat, while their fellow children from privileged parents are in school. Most of the girl children fall victims of rape and ritual killings. Most of the boys join bad gangs. Eventually, these children brought up under these conditions end up being street touts, prostitutes, armed robbers, kidnappers and general nuisance to the society; that is, if they survive the streets!
This project will strive to assist the fatherless children in discovering themselves and their potentials by giving them the opportunity to acquire proper education. The project will try to take these children off the streets and into the classrooms. Also, this project will strive to bring hope to destitute widows by helping them know and defend their rights through provision of legal aids and counselling. Additionally, skills acquisition seminars and talk shows will be organized for them.
Primary beneficiaries of the project include 20 fatherless children who will be sent to school at the first instance, and 50 destitute widows who will be empowered to earn a living through skills acquisition training and empowerment. At the long run, the society at large will benefit, as this project will aim at reducing to the barest minimum, societal violence and vices by taking the children off the streets and to the classrooms.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
