The School Without Walls (SWW) project is a learning center for children at all levels (from primary to secondary) and vocational training center located close to 2 Internally displaced person camps. The aim of SWW is to provide access to formal education for the out-of-school internally-displaced children. Currently, over 700 children attend the school with the provision of one meal per day for every pupil and access to medical services.
More than 5 million people who have been displaced by the Boko Haram attacks in the North East of Nigeria. Among these people have been children and young adults (over 2 million) who are not getting basic formal education, enough food and medical facilities. As a result, starvation, unemployment and diseases have become rampant in their resettlement camps. In the long run, this standard of living may cause more deaths, violence and crime in the community and its neighboring communities.
Our organisation has recognized the growing need to instill formal education for these poor and marginalized children. We believe our flagship project, School Without Walls, is much needed to provide formal education environment, basic medical facilities, and food for 2000 children in 5 camps in Abuja to rehabilitate these children who have experienced the horrors of war and to eventually reintegrate into the mainstream society with their acquired skills and education.
We hope these 2000 children in the 5 designated camps will become leaders in their communities due to our provision of a basic formal education- This will improve literacy levels and equip the children to achieve tertiary education, attain employment in the formal sector and acquire vocational skills that will improve the standard of living for themselves and their families.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
