Rise and help to reduce school drop out!

In rural communities in Nigeria, school dropout is on the increase, crime and abuse of drugs by the young people are the order of the day.

Are you sitting down? Each year, more than a million kids living in Nigeria’s rural communities will leave school without earning a senior secondary school certificate — that’s approximately 7,000 students every day of the academic year. Without that diploma, they’ll be more likely to head down a path that leads to the possible continuation of a cycle of poverty that creates immense challenges for families, neighbourhoods, and communities.

For some students, dropping out is the culmination of years of academic hurdles, missteps, and wrong turns. For others, the decision to drop out is a response to conflicting life pressures — the need to help support their family financially or the demands of caring for siblings or their child. Dropping out is sometimes about students being bored and seeing no connection between academic life and “real” life. It’s about young people feeling disconnected from their peers and teachers and other adults at school. And it’s about schools and communities having too few resources to meet the complex emotional and academic needs of their most vulnerable youth.

This is why we are committed to championing education on a global basis, helping children from poor homes to attend school. With your generous support, we can build a school and enable children living in some of the most remote, isolated communities to attend lessons and break free from the cycle of poverty.

We believe that improving education and giving children the best start in life is one of the most effective ways to beat poverty. Please help us raise the money we need in any way you can.