Kechie’s Project Launches Sustainable Education Program in Nigeria

April 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Kechie’s Project (KP), an organization that empowers girls in Africa with education and social support, officially announced its Sustainable Education Program and launched its first campaign, The Nigerian Initiative by donating workbooks to 1000 children in Nigeria.

The Sustainable Education Program is a comprehensive approach to improve the quality of education in underserved areas so that girls can have the facilities and means to learn. This program will work in concert with the Young Scholars Program, which covers the tuition of promising high school and university students. To start the program with a country-specific focused, The Nigerian Initiative was developed, and its first priority is to equip children with the academic tools to learn. The workbooks were distributed to students of the schools selected to participate in the initiative, Community Secondary School and Adekunle Anglican Primary School along with its after school tutoring program partner, Makoko Youth Movement for Health.

Community Secondary School in Obinagu-Uwani, Akpugo in Enugu State was once a high school for girls, but it recently became co-ed due to low attendance. Providing workbooks to the students, along with soon modernizing the classrooms, is aimed to attract girls to regularly attend school in the area.  The workbooks will ease the financial hardships of some families who find it difficult to pay for books and schools supply fees. Some girls, especially from single parent families, are generally kept out of school because secondary education unlike primary education is not provided by the government. In a country where most people live on less than $2 a day, tuition is expensive for even the most modest high schools such as Community Secondary School.

Adekunle Anglican Primary School and Makoko Youth Movement for Health, are located in the Makoko neighborhood of Yaba, a suburb of Lagos. Makoko is plagued by poverty and sanitary problems. The residents live in homes on wooden stilts above water. The majority of students at the school and after school program are orphans. Few children have parents or benefactors who can provide them with school supplies such as books.

Kechie’s Project is eager to continue the momentum of working with the schools. More books, desks and chairs are clearly needed in the classrooms, and meeting these needs are part of the program's agenda.

Upon the success of The Nigerian Initiative, The Sustainable Education Program will have a proven model to boost the academic quality of schools across Africa.

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Kechie’s Project empowers girls in Africa with education and social support. Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of women to become future leaders within their communities and beyond for a better Africa. Founded in 2010, Kechie’s Project is an international non-profit organization headquartered in New York. The Earth Right’s Institute is the fiscal sponsor of Kechie’s Project while we are in the process of obtaining our 501(c)3 status.