Education Nigeria Project #52526

Keep a Girl in School In Northern Nigeria

by Serendipity Healthcare Foundation

Keep a Girl in School In Northern Nigeria

Project Report | Mar 21, 2025
Hold on Education?

By Samirah Faruk | Project Leader

One of our beneficiary

Dear family, Friends and supporters of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

We are grateful for your continued support of our project, Keep a Girl Child in School in Northern Nigeria. As we mark the third year of this initiative, we are proud to report that we have made significant progress in promoting girls' education in Northern Nigeria.

Project Achievements:

- We have provided scholarships to over 500 children, with 70% of them being girls, enabling them to access quality education.

- We have distributed textbooks, exercise books, writing materials, school bags, and shoes to our beneficiaries, ensuring they have the necessary tools to succeed in school.

- Some of our beneficiaries have graduated to secondary school, demonstrating the project's positive impact on their educational journey.

Challenges:

As we write this report, we are facing an unexpected challenge. The Kano state government has closed down all schools until April 16th due to the Ramadan fast, which coincides with the Christian fast of Lent. This closure has affected our project's implementation, and we are working closely with our local partners to find alternative solutions. This is one of the biggest challange we have in the Northern part of the country as our state governors do not see the value of education and how important it is. However, this will not deter us as we have achieved a lot for the past three years and thus would not relent now.

Adaptation and Innovation:

In response to the school closure, we are exploring alternative ways to engage our beneficiaries and continue providing educational support. We are considering the following options:

- Organizing community-based educational activities, such as literacy programs and vocational training, to keep our beneficiaries engaged and learning.

- Providing educational materials and resources to our beneficiaries, enabling them to continue learning at home.

- Collaborating with local organizations and stakeholders to advocate for the importance of education and the need to prioritize girls' education in Northern Nigeria.

Call to Action:

Despite the challenges we are facing, we remain committed to our mission of promoting girls' education in Northern Nigeria. We urge you, our valued donors, to continue supporting our project, even in the face of adversity. Your contributions are crucial in helping us overcome these challenges and ensure that our beneficiaries continue to receive the educational support they need.

We are grateful for your ongoing support and trust in our project. We are confident that, together, we can overcome the current challenges and continue making a positive impact on the lives of girls in Northern Nigeria. Thank you for your continued generosity and commitment to our mission.

Best regards,

Samirah Faruk

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Nov 21, 2024
20 More children added to our scholarship scheme

By Adama Faruk | Project Coordinator 2

20 more school children given scholarship

Dear Friends, Family and supporters of Serendipity,

Earlier this year, we adopted 20 vulnerable children from a community school we in Tofa Town in Tofa Local Governing Council in Kano. Our objective is to ensure these children continue with their education as they were dropouts and with your generous donations, they were able to return back to school as tution fees were paid, school bags given, school shoes, exercise books and writing materials.

Follow up on the first twenty for the last three terms showed the first 20 children had a lot of improvement in their lives and studies as they all scored an average of 60% a growth from 20% previously recorded. With this resounding success we added 20 more vulnerable children adopted and now we have 40 vulnerable children under our scholarship program to ensure our children get quality education and lead better lives.

Inflation is currently at 38% and thus things are becoming more difficult for our rural communites as poverty and hunger is on an all time high. And with research still conducted and the rate of out of school children has risen from 75% to now almost 100%. This is as a result of the cyrrent policies in place that is affecting the poor more because they can longer afford basic needs unlike before and only looking at how to survive instead of living.

Tuition fees were paid for one year for the 40 children, school uniforms, school shoes, school books, and school bags were distributed for the 40 children in Primary two, the new class they are in now. Updates about their progress in class will be posted after each term.

Our next goal is to include other areas of support to the school as there are cross cutting issues we intend to achieve to facilitate their learning experience.

We want to specifically thank you our donors especially our recurring donors for bringing a smile upon our children to access education as when you teach a girl child a community is being built.

Thank you once again!!

Follow our stories on our social media handles and website to be updated as we go along with our girls story on Facebook/serenhealthcare, Instagram/serendipityHea1, Twitter/serendipityHea1 , our Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaDRnvrKLaHtBHbfxJ0m or our website on Https://www.serendipityhealthcare.org.in

See work we have done thus far in our links and pictures.

Thank you so much for your continued support as we want every girl child not to be left behind!!

Your faithfully,

Adama Faruk

Tuition fees for the new batch of 20 children paid

School books and materials given

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Aug 23, 2024
Against all Odds, there is hope

By Adama Faruk | Project Coordinator 2

One of our Girls

Dear Friends, Supporters and Family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

2023/2024 School Session is over and our children under scholarship will be moving to the next class which is Primary Two, this is all because of your kind donations.

There is a state of emergency on education declared by the Kano State government on the 8^th of June (Punch Newspapers – http://punchng.com ) This was declared because of the critical challenges plaguing the education sector in the state which is to mobilise resources, implement urgent reforms and focus on strategic interventions to rebuild educational infrastructure and necessary materials.

We all know of the current protest ongoing in Nigeria and Kano being the worst hit in turns of destruction and violence by the teeming youths which most of them have not been in the four walls of a classroom hence which the facility of critical thinking. This is because of vast poverty, hunger, lack of education, health and all other cross cutting issues hence resorting to violence, destruction and looting at any opportunity. There is hunger and poverty in the land and hence cannot be blamed totally for their actions because there is evidently no political will to change their lots.

We at Serendipity have come up with a strategy to start with baby steps with our adopted schools with a school feeding program as that is one of the major causes of children not attending school because they are too hungry to come to school, their parents cannot afford a nutritious meal for them, besides how can they learn when their tummy is rumbling? We want to ensure that this chosen set of school we have will make a difference and become critical thinkers with all the cross cutting issues in place. We want to implement this strategy by the coming session that starts in September, 2024.

We are continuously grateful for your continued support with us all through these years. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

You can follow us on our social media pages to learn more, follow us, like, comment and share our pages, https://www.facebook.com/serenhealthcare https://www.Instagram.com/serendipityHea1 https://www.twitter.com/serendipityHea1 https://www.LinkedIN.com/company/serendipity-healthcare-foundation and also our website https://www.serendipityhealthcare.org.in

Best Regards,

Adama Faruk

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