Help 160 Conflict-Impacted Families in NE Nigeria

Apr 17, 2018

The Impact of Your Support

By Jo Cooke - Group Communications Manager

Children decorating the new child friendly spaces

Earlier this year we emailed with you with the amazing progress we had made in NE Nigeria all thanks to your support. We were excited to share the plans we had for 2018 which included:

- building 60 more temporary learning centres, rehabilitating 120 damaged classrooms and training 450 teachers across the North East.

- helping 23,000 conflict-affected children not only to have access to basic education, but benefit from teachers and social workers trained in counselling and child protection.

Now we can share with you that this work has begun - we are in the process of building 30 child friendly spaces where children who have been impacted by on-going conflict have a safe space to play, learn and access counselling if they need it. Thanks to your support, we will also be providing families with business grants and training to address the over-arching barrier to education for internally displaced and host community families: household poverty.

Thank you so much again for supporting our work to help conflict-impacted children and families in Nigeria. With your support, we are changing lives.

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Jan 18, 2018

Supporting Children & Families in NE Nigeria

By Jo Cooke - Group Communications Manager

In late 2016 Street Child announced its intention to make a difference in the North East of Nigeria where on-going conflict had impacted the lives of millions of children and their families. Thanks to your support we have been working flat out all year to get our programme off the ground.

We have made huge progress! We helped 100s of children in 2017 and are set to help 10s of 1000s of children in 2018.

In July this year we built a temporary learning centre to provide over 300 children with a basic education. It not only gives these children a safe space but our 10 teachers provide education not only in literacy and numeracy, but also on essential emergency related topics including basic hygiene, psycho-social counselling and gender based violence. We have also provided 100 livelihoods packages to address the over-arching barrier to education for internally displaced and host community families: household poverty.

Even more excitingly, Street Child is now in a great position to take these achievements to scale. Already for 2018, we have secured funding to start work on the following projects:

- building 60 more temporary learning centres, rehabilitating 120 damaged classrooms and training 450 teachers across the North East.

- helping 23,000 conflict-affected children not only to have access to basic education, but benefit teachers and social workers trained in counselling and child protection.

There are many people and organisations who have come together to make this possible - but you, our supporters, are the vital link in the chain. Without you, none of this would have been possible. Thank you.

Of course, there is so much more to do - and we continue to ask for your support. There are an estimated 2.5m children out of school in North East Nigeria. We want to do more to support some of the most vulnerable children in Nigeria to go to school.

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Oct 20, 2017

Thanks to your support...

By Jo Cooke - Group Communications Manager

Naomi working on her farmland

1.3 million children have been forced to flee their homes from conflict in North East Nigeria. There are thousands of families struggling in temporary camps where disease and hunger are rife. Street Child's project is empowering 160 families to set up small businesses to be able to afford basic care and education for their children.

Thanks to your support, we have been able to support mothers to set up and expand their business so they can support their children. Mothers like Naomi:

Naomi is the sole parent of 10 children. After her husband was killed by Boko Haram, she made the impossible decision to flee their home to save herself and her children.

She fled to the New Kuchingoro refugee camp, desparate, homeless and terrified for her children's futures.

"The situation has put me in a difficult position, by playing the role of father and mother to my children at the same time." she says.

"To flee from Boko Haram and further attack on us, we left Borno state to settle in New Kuchingoro refugee camp in Abuja. My children's education is a concern for me."

Naomi was determined to rebuild her life for the sake of her family, and to find a way to make money to support her children through their schooling.

Now, thanks to the support of people like you, Naomi has been able to get their lives back on track.
‘I currently have one hectare of farmland,’ adds Naomi, from her farm in Kaburu, in Nasarawa, nearby to the New Kuchingoro camp.

With Street Child's support Naomi could buy what she needed to develop a sustainable source of income. Naomi has been able to buy chemicals for her farm, putting an end to insect infestation and increase the value of her produce - meaning she can afford to take care of her children and begin to plan for the future.

‘After harvesting the produce in the next two months, I will keep some for family consumption and
sell some. The money I make can then the re-invested for the next season.

‘The grant has made life easier for me and my family, and I am proud of my children.’

Thank you for your support. Together we are changing lives.

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