This Project will focus 500 shoe-less boys roaming the streets in tattered clothes. With bowls move around in groups begging for alms and food. Their religious teachers, supported by parents and cultural beliefs, encourage them to beg. Future Hope Links Initiative Planned to Provide them Access to quality education, with meals bags schools Uniforms and food and Books to Restore their Hope for a Better Future
Sokoto, home of the caliphate and the Muslim spiritual leader, is now among states with a huge number of out-school-children who in the name of seeking Islamic education are used as child beggars. With a Total population of five million, school-age children population of 1.1 million and school enrollment of 610, 886, it is reported to have a literacy level as low as 15.1 percent, one of the least literate states in the northern geopolitical region of Nigeria.
The program Main objective is to provides Child Beggars with the necessary life skills to lift educational support themselves out of poverty with regular with access to Free education Provided by Government through enrollment Drive Back to School Programme. Meanwhile, Child Beggars suffer from the day in day out Begging all-round the Street, looking for Food and other Basics Needs for livelihood. The also Programme Tends to provide Poverty Alleviation Support.
The project will educate 500 child Beggars, allowing their Future Restored with education as Means of Poverty Alleviation which will be Provide for their families' health and well-being.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).