By Alexander Akhigbe | Project Leader
In Nigeria, so many factors contribute to the increasing number of out of school children and this shortfall is contributing negatively to the economic growth of the country. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2018, affirmed that about 10.5million children are not in school and this is majorly as a result of finance.
With this in view, African CleanUp Initiative came up with the waste to education intervention (Recyclespay Educational Project) which has both directly and indirectly made under privileged communities see the value in the sustainable use of waste and in turn has brought about behavioural change and interests of more schools within disadvantaged communities to participate.
In view of this, we have established our presence through recycling advocacy programmes in schools for students and sensitization programmes during PTA (Parents Teachers Association) meetings prior to the lockdown in Nigeria as a result of the pandemic. Currently, this got us operating in four (4) low-income schools and we have been able to pick-up recyclables from them before the lockdown and during the ease of the lockdown.
These four low-income schools got to contribute their own quota by gathering her own recyclables aside from what the parents bring to the school for their kids and at the end of the day whatever is realised is used to get academic materials, maintain the school structure and get more kids to remain in school.
At this point, we want to use this medium to thank all those who have gone through their way to put smiles on these kids’ faces and impacting the lives of their family. We appreciate you and thanks to your donations, we were able to receive from GlobalGiving a sum of $4,539.42 which makes up 25% of the funds that have been utilized so far to recover 1,830.51kg of recyclables from four (4) low-income schools and have impacted 58 households within the space of three months. The remaining 75% is planned to be deployed on reaching out to more schools and making significant impact over the next nine (9) months.
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