Slum2school Africa, a volunteer based development organization driven by young social reformers to provide scholarship and psycho-social support for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC’s) in slums in Nigeria and across Africa, launched its campaign for 2013/2014 Academic session tagged #1000 Voices in August 2013 and was meant to last till September 2014.
The campaign was geared towards enrolling 1000 kids from 5 communities namely Makoko, Okuagbo, Sogunlo, Aiyetoru in Yaba Local Government and Emina community, a remote island in Epe into schools under our scholarship and support programs.
Slum2School Africa was founded in February 2012 and since then; it has enrolled about 650 children into schools around Lagos. The organization’s founder and Executive Director, Otto Orondaam stated in a recent stakeholder meeting saying “though our impact in 2013 had increased by over 100% and currently we are supporting about 650 children in schools, we are still far from our 1000 target and we need to do more”. We need to ensure that these children stay in schools and are getting the best form of education and moral/mentorship training” so 2014 will be a year for more Action. “The impact that we have made in the communities is so amazing, but we realize that we have only just scratched the bark of the tree. The 2013 UNESCO report posited that about 58 Million children of school age in the world are presently out of schools, 10.5 million of those children are in Nigeria alone.
The campaign’s strategic emphasis is on the use of new media and several social media platforms and the volunteer’s network/ partners to reach its target audience as it did in its last successful campaigns.
To donate towards this campaign, kindly make payments only to the following Slum2School accounts:
For further inquiries contact support info@slumtoschool.org or call +234 814 2828 750 or 0700Slum2School
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