Planned, in partnership with United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), it will connect 100,000 children to the Learning Passport, an online resource, over the next five years.
Airtel, with a presence in 14 countries in Africa, has over 50 million subscribers in Nigeria, its biggest market.
Airtel Africa’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Segun Ogunsanya, in a statement, yesterday, said 100 schools would be connected yearly in the country, as part of the five-year $57 million partnership with UNICEF signed in October 2021.
Ogunsanya said the partnership aims to provide access to education to at least one million disadvantaged children, mostly in rural and hard-to-reach communities across 13 of its 14 country operations in Africa.
