Empower 20 Million Dreams In Nigeria

Giddy2School Quarter 1 Report 2026 – Empower 20 Million Dreams Project

We hit the ground running on our ‘Empower 20 Million Dreams’ Project, at Giddy2School. Big thanks to all of you, who believe that kindness, empowerment and quality education should not be a luxury, that education can and should go round, even to some of the most marginalized children, and youths in the world.

While it is sad that up to 20.6 million children and youths in Nigeria are yet currently locked out of access to quality education, we are glad to report that your support has secured and empowering six young people’s dreams to access quality education and useful skills. While providing educational resources for up to 31+ primary school children. We call our beneficiaries champions, because we look forward to telling their stories from a place of dignity, strength and courage. When you indeed get indepth with each of them, you would undoubtedly see why we call them champions. 

Meet Ewaola, who is the last born of 12 children, solely catered for by her single mother, and the only one who currently got the opportunity to attend a university in the whole family. We met Ewaola on our 2023 fellowship, alongside other fellows who signed up for our leadership fellowship, now the – Giddy2School Global Leadership and Innovation Fellowship. Ewaola is now in 300 level in Lagos state University studying Political Science. In a bid to make her self-reliant, this project has provided the hope of empowerment through vocational training – braiding of hair that she has now been enrolled in.

And there is Pelumi, a 400 level Geology student who would have dropped out of the university, had he not gotten the support of the scholarship. Currently on a Second Class Upper, this project gave him hope that education is still that ladder to achieve his dreams and potentials even while all hope was long gone.

Efejiofor and Oreoluwa whose dad is deceased, have left basic education for some years, grappling with several hurdles to get into the university, each of their stories representing what the endless structural inequality marginalized children and youths face everyday, and how typically, dreams get dimmed because no one cared. Through this project, they both got scholarships to register for University and continued learning support for them to realize their dreams. Oreoluwa wants to be a Biochemist, while Efejiofor wants to become a lawyer, such grits their dreams were made of, and so many others on our shortlist.

In the next quarter, we want to empower more dreams, more young people in forgotten places. We are extending our reach to even more villages and low-income communities through your support. A particular partner school where children seemed to have lost the ability to dream and drop out at the slightest. Introducing Project Kishi, and a set of now 42 children who did nothing wrong rather than where they happened to be born. But with your support, we can change that narrative and give them a dream and an empowerment to realize that dream.