Give 200 Children in Rural Nigeria an Education!

Our learning safe space, set-up in 2019 has been providing out-of-school children in Kware community who have never had access to any form of formal education, access to literacy, numeracy and social skills lessons every weekend for two (2) years following a carefully designed curriculum to aid accelerated learning, and help in their possible transition into formal schools.

Over the years, we’ve recorded inspiring stories of learning growth, one of such beneficiaries is the story of Masouda. Masouda was brought to Kware community by an elderly woman who needed a companion and someone to help with house chores. She has never attended any formal school and started coming to the safe space with an enrolled beneficiary during her free time, as a playtime activity. Seeing how playful she was and to prevent her from distracting other children from learning, the safe space facilitator started engaging her to learn by employing the play method. This piqued her interest in learning, and she slowly started learning the alphabets. When Masouda joined the safe space program, she couldn’t write or read, however now she can write all the letters of the alphabets, read out some letter sounds, and recognize certain numbers.

Masouda’s story isn’t a singular occurrence, we’ve had other children like Bakir, Sheriff come to our safe space having never been to school, and yet are at different stages of learning; blending sounds, adding numbers, and reading out short phrases. The safe space caters to the basic learning needs of these children and helps us build their foundation for a learned future.

Kindly keep supporting our work by donating and sharing why you choose to support us with your community of family and friends.

Thank you!

Rahina,
For: The ACE Team

In January, we enrolled 30 out-of-school children for a new phase of ACE Charity's Safe Space Programme to receive literacy, numeracy and social skills lessons every weekend for nine (9) months. Following an update of the Safe Space Curriculum, the learning period has now been extended to a period of two (2) years, to further increase the learning outcomes achieved by our beneficiaries, especially when allowed to transition into formal schools. 

Over the months, we have held lessons every weekend and the children enrolled in the Safe Space Programme have made improvements that have been both remarkable and exciting to see. It goes beyond the fact that these children who have never had a formal education now understand the concepts being taught, are able to identify and apply them in multiple real-life scenarios. This certainly doesn’t come as a surprise as the children themselves have remained committed to attending the lessons, participating actively, attempting questions asked in the class, and challenging themselves by doing all assignments and tests given to them. On various occasions, we even have children come along with their friends and siblings to learn.

The access to learning, the matching interest by the children to learn and the evident benefit it serves to both the children, their families and Kware community keeps us committed inensuring that children can acquire the foundational educational knowledge and skills they need to grow and thrive. 

Kindly keep supporting our work by donating and sharing why you choose to support us with your community of family and friends. 

Thank you! 

Vivian,
For: The ACE Team