“Many African children grow up without having seen, let alone owned beautiful, well-illustrated books which inspire them to a life of reading, beauty, learning and curiosity for the world” – Bibi Bakare of Cassava Republic Publishers
Bibi is quite right because this is the reality for about 95% of children like Muna and her little friends in public/community primary schools in the most populous country in Africa; Nigeria.
Most of the parents of the children that we serve like that of Muna and her friends in the rural communities of Lila, Gilmari and Lainde our partner schools, the CDM Schools in Mubi Hills in Mubi North Local Government Area cannot afford to buy textbooks for their children, let alone storybooks that will inspire them to become lifelong learners. When we started supporting the schools in 2017, the children had never seen a storybook before and the last time they got a donation of textbooks was in 2010.
The schools are located in the remote villages of Adamawa State without any form of social amenities/infrastructure (power, roads, hospitals, internet, schools). The schools that we work with are the only access that these children and their families have to civilization. Therefore, storybooks are extremely important because through the stories that the children read they can travel to places in their imaginations, beyond the confines of their limiting environment and dream of a better future.
According to Kate DiCamillo, "Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift." We strongly believe that although textbooks are vital for literacy and with your investment, we have donated more than 2,342 textbooks, they can be a chore or duty for children to read. However, classic storybooks like Peter the Cat and the Ugly Duckling improve their creativity, critical thinking skills, imagination, communication and overall literacy skills.
Thanks to you; our GlobalGiving Donors; Muna and her 86 classmates in CDM Primary School Lainde love school and reading the over 165 storybooks donated to the school. However, we still need $$ 30,295 to go to ensure that little girls like Muna, and their friends continue their education and follow their dreams. CDM Primary School Lainde still needs flooring and windows, CDM Secondary School Lila needs solar panels for their computers, and more laptops and all the schools need educational materials (writing materials, textbooks and storybooks) and over 75 desks. Kindly consider becoming a recurring donor and donating to our project. Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues so that we can invest in more children like Muna and her little friends, to give them storybooks that will inspire them to continue on their journey as lifelong learners and to a bright future!
Therefore, we encourage you to invest in the future of Muna and her little friends so that they can become successful adults. Muna dreams of becoming a teacher. Please visit our project page bit.ly/2TLI6Bm for details. Thank you so much for all you have done and are doing to promote quality education in underserved communities.
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Education was one of the major causalities of the Boko Haram insurgency, with over 3 million children in need of emergency education support in Northern Nigeria; especially in States like Adamawa State in Northern Nigeria. The new school year is usually a period of concern for the parents of pupils like Zachariah and the management team of our partner organization CDM Foundation. The parents of the pupils in the three CDM Primary Schools (Lila, Lainde and Gilmari ) that we adopted in 2017 in Mubi Hills in Adamawa State are peasant farmers and paying the school fees and getting educational supplies is a burden that most of them struggle with, thus leading to low enrolment and attendance rates in the new school year. When these peasant farmers cannot provide educational supplies or writing materials for their children like Zachariah, the children become demotivated and uninterested in school, leading to low attendance and eventually dropping out of school.
Also, for the management of CDM Foundation, the lower the enrolment rate, the more difficult it becomes to keep the schools running effectively. The CDM schools are right in the communities of the children, unlike the public schools that are about a 3-hour trek away. Studies have revealed that children who lack writing materials fall behind in learning during the early years and often stay behind for the remaining time they spend in school, and the gap widens over the years. The number of years of education a child also receives directly affects their future earnings.
Our dear donors, according to the Coordinator of the schools; Comfort; since 2017, when you decided to invest in 13-year-old, Zachariah, his peers and their teachers by taking the burden of buying educational resources from the parents; the enrolment rate in the schools has doubled by 100% and the attendance rate has gone up by 95%.
In September last year, after the children resumed for the new academic year, we did fundraising for Back-To-School supplies to ensure that little girls like 7-year-old Dorcas and young boys like 13-year-old Zachariah will have access to quality education stay in school and will not be left behind. Our goal for the Back-To-School Project was to support pupils like Dorcas and Zachariah in the underserved community primary schools; CDM Lila, Lainde and Gilmari with writing materials. We are glad to inform you that we raised enough funds because of you our wonderful donors to support 479 pupils and their teachers with writing materials. Thus, with your investment our amazing donors; every child who enrolled for the new academic session like Dorcas and Zachariah got writing materials and no child was left behind!
However, we still need $$ 30,296 to go to ensure that little girls like Dorcas, young boys like Zachariah and their friends continue their education and follow their dreams. CDM Primary School Lainde still needs flooring, and windows, CDM Secondary School Lila needs solar panels for their computers, and more laptops and all the schools need educational materials (writing materials, textbooks and storybooks) and about 75 desks. Kindly consider becoming a recurring donor and donate to our project. Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues so that we can invest in more children like Dorcas and Zachariah and their Schoolmates, especially in this Covid-19 season to give them a foundation for their future and dreams!
Therefore, we encourage you to invest in the future of Dorcas, Zachariah and their schoolmates so that they can become successful adults. Zachariah dreams of becoming a doctor. Please visit our project page bit.ly/2TLI6Bm for details. Thank you so much for all you have done and are doing to promote quality education in underserved communities.
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PROMOTING QUALITY EDUCATION THROUGH ACCESS TO WRITING MATERIALS
"Lack of educational supplies such as #books and writing materials is the 4th barrier to quality #education." - @Global Citizen
There are several barriers to quality education and the lack of writing materials is ranked the 4th. Quality Education is a major key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. When children like Dorcas and Zachariah in their early years do not have access to quality education, it affects their chances of having a bright future, which invariably impacts the world negatively, because our children are our future.
Studies have shown that when children have access to Writing Materials, it increases and improves their creativity, attendance in school, grades and academic performance, love for learning, and intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. Writing Materials are resourceful to both teachers and children because they need them to learn effectively and improve their literacy skills.
In February 2017, as a result of the Boko Haram Insurgencies and its devastating impact on the education of children like Dorcas and Zachariah in Northern Nigeria (low school attendance, destruction of classroom blocks and properties and high dropout rate); we adopted 3 primary schools in Mubi Hills in Adamawa State (CDM Primary School Lila, CDM Primary School Lainde and CDM Primary School GIlmari) and Ethnosreach Primary Schools Mazu’Muari Kamberi, Niger State.
Since adopting the schools in 2017; thanks to your immense support donors, and the GlobalGiving team, the enrolment has increased to over 520, Keeping It Real Foundation has supported over 1,800 pupils like Dorcas, Zachariah and their teachers with writing materials and donated over 2,000 academic and leisure books to the children and their teachers, set up 4 Reading Corners, equipped a community library with furniture and books. This has led to an increase in enrolment rate, attendance, the academic performance of the children and commitment from the Parents, and Teachers Association in the schools.
The schools have resumed for the new academic year and we are currently fundraising for Back-To-School supplies that will ensure that little girls like 7-year-old Dorcas and young boys like Zachariah will have access to quality education. Our goal for the Back-To-School Project is to support the over 520 pupils like Dorcas and Zachariah in the underserved community primary schools; CDM Lila, Lainde and Gilmari with writing materials.
Furthermore, we still need $30,702 to go to ensure that little girls like Dorcas, young boys like Zachariah and their friends continue their education and follow their dreams. CDM Primary School Lainde still needs flooring, and windows, CDM Secondary School Lila needs solar panels for their computers, more laptops and all the schools need educational materials (writing materials, textbooks and storybooks) and about 75 desks. Kindly consider becoming a recurring donor and donate to our project. Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues so that we can invest in more children like Dorcas and Zachariah and their 520 Schoolmates, especially in this Covid-19 season to give them a foundation for their future and dreams!
Therefore, we encourage you to invest in the future of Dorcas, Zachariah and their schoolmates so that they can become successful adults. Zachariah dreams of becoming Doctor., Please visit our project page bit.ly/2TLI6Bm for details. Thank you so much for all you have done and are doing to promote quality education in underserved communities.
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In 2017, Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation adopted 4 Primary Schools in Northern Nigeria that had been affected by the Boko Haram Insurgency. A major problem that the schools had was lack of educational materials especially textbooks. One of the schools is CDM Primary School Lila in the remote village of Mubi Hills in Adamawa State. The school had not gotten textbooks in almost seven years, because the parents of the pupils are peasant farmers who despite the backbreaking work of farming in the rocky hills of Mubi can barely get enough to pay the school fees, so textbooks was a luxury they could not afford. Nelson Mandela famously said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Unfortunately, not all people have access to free or affordable education, especially children who live in poor communities in developing countries like Nigeria.
According to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), lack of learning materials is the 4th barrier to education.Thanks to the commitment and investment of our GlobalGiving donors, Keeping It Real Foundation in partnership with the Parents Teachers Association of the School, set up a library for the pupils; so that the pupils can have access to as many books as they need. Godiya and Dan are the first generation in their families to go to school, their parents are peasant farmers and cannot afford textbooks for their children. Textbooks improve the performance of children in schools and helps them to understand the world around them better. Where learners do not have access to books in their own homes, textbooks in the schools can potentially remedy this educational barrier. Thanks to our donors, Godiya, Dan and their 270 classmates now have access to textbooks.
However, we still need $30, 922 to ensure that children like Godiya and Dan and their friends continue their education and follow their dreams. CDM Primary School Lainde still needs flooring, windows, desks, CDM Secondary School Lila needs solar panels for their computers, more laptops and all the schools need educational materials (writing materials, textbooks and storybooks). Kindly consider becoming a recurring donor and donate to our project; https://www.GlobalGiving.org/projects/educate-270-children-in-northern-nigeria/. Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues so that we can invest in more children like Godiya and Dan and their 270 Schoolmates especially in this Covid-19 season to give them a foundation for their future and dreams!
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Happy and Prosperous New Year dear donors and friends,
It has been a challenging two years for our world testing our agility as we sought to respond to the ever-changing pandemic circumstances and steering ourselves to continue to create a better future for the children that we serve. It would have been impossible to continue with the work in the rural communities in Mubi Hills in Adamawa State without your investment!
According to World Literacy Foundation, 8 out of 10 Nigerian students cannot read, write or communicate effectively in English. We believe that literacy is the foundation for lifelong learning and education and people who cannot read and write find it more difficult to succeed in the knowledge and technology-based 21st century in which we live. When we look back on our journey with you since 2017 and especially the last two years, we want to sincerely thank you for your unwavering support. You have enabled us to positively impact the children that we serve in the rural communities of Lila, Gilmari and Lainde who are in our partner schools, the CDM Schools in Mubi Hills in Mubi North Local Government Area. The schools are located in the remote villages of Adamawa State without any form of social amenities/infrastructure (power, roads, hospitals, internet, schools). The schools that we work with are the only access that these children and their families have to civilization, more so, through the books that your investment has provided. The children can travel to places in their imaginations, beyond the confines of their limiting environment and dream of the possibility of a better future.
Since 2017, your donations have helped us to provide children like Thomas, Tobias, Affordia, Sefia, Peace, Zion, Michael, Selina and their friends with more than 2,342 textbooks and 572 storybooks, so that they can read, write and communicate effectively in English. Their ability to read has given them the confidence to dream of a better future than their peasant parents who toil away doing back-breaking work in the farms all year round with little or no profit. These children like your children want to become doctors, teachers, lawyers and return to their communities to lift their parents out of poverty. Please take a look at our previous reports to learn more about the amazing difference your giving has made.
Comfort the Coordinator of the CDM Schools in our interview with her said; “The donation of the books and the educational supplies has encouraged the parents to send their children to school instead of keeping them in the farms, school attendance has gone up, more girls like Peace, Felicia, Rita, Blessing and their friends are going to secondary school, instead of being married off after primary school”.
However, we still need $31,031 to ensure that children like Thomas, Michael, Sefia, Peace, Tobias and their friends continue their education and follow their dreams. CDM Primary School Lainde still needs flooring, windows, desks, CDM Secondary School Lila needs solar panels for their computers, more laptops and all the schools need educational materials (writing materials, textbooks and storybooks). Kindly consider becoming a recurring donor and donate to our project; https://www.GlobalGiving.org/projects/educate-270-children-in-northern-nigeria/. Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues so that we can invest in more children like Thomas, Tobias, Sefia, Peace and their friends especially in this Covid-19 season to give them a foundation for their future and dreams!
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