Solar-powered offline learning hubs keeping 600 riverine girls learning during 4-month annual floods in Niger Delta.
Every year, floods close schools in Niger Delta for 4 months. In Omoku, Rivers State and riverine Bayelsa and Delta, 600+ girls living in creeks miss 120+ learning days. When schools close, girls are sent to crowded IDP camps. No light, no books, no privacy. Teen pregnancy and GBV rise by 35% during floods. Girls with disabilities and young mothers never return - 60% drop out permanently. Existing schools have no solar power, no offline learning, and are inaccessible by boat.
CreekLearn Rivers transforms flooded community halls and high ground into 6 solar-powered offline learning hubs. Each hub has: 20 offline tablets loaded with literacy, numeracy, SRHR and climate justice in Pidgin and Ijaw Solar charging kit + 50 solar lamps for girls to study at night in IDP camps. When floods cut off mainland schools, learning continues by boat and on higher ground. Girls study safely, stay together, and stay in school. In our pilot, 1,300 girls kept 85% attendance .
600 riverine girls per year learn without interruption during 4-month floods, complete primary school, and avoid early marriage. 12 young women facilitators gain income and leadership. 6 communities have resilient solar learning hubs owned by girls. Model scales to 20 Niger Delta creek communities = 2,000 girls keeping learning during climate shocks.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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