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iAfrica set to teach 200,000 out-of-school children in 2022

Nigeria’s leading impactful education-based initiative, iAfrica Cloud School Foundation, has called on concerned Nigerians

iAfrica Cloud School Foundation

Calls for sponsors, partners, local community participation

Nigeria’s leading impactful education-based initiative, iAfrica Cloud School Foundation, has called on concerned Nigerians and community leaders to join hands with the initiative to expand its reach in ensuring that children from indigent backgrounds and displaced families also benefit from the project’s offerings.

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iAfrica Cloud School Foundation is a social impact project developed by a team of seasoned educators working with 21st-century methods and practices of teaching adopted by most elitist schools.

Their laudable vision is supported by a board of notable Nigerians, comprising; Mrs. Aisha Muritala – Oyebode, Mrs. Remi Odunlami, Mrs. Funkazi Koroye Crooks, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Mr. Lateef Abassi, Mr. Valentine Nwandu, Mr. Hubert Shaiyen, Mr. Olusola Seriki and Mrs. Modupe Adeyinka – Oni, who all share passion for the emancipation of the Nigerian child from a life of poverty, simply because no one took the time to teach them to read and write.

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Mr. Lateef Abassi, who serves as chairman, believes that the problems of Nigeria will be half solved if the populace were empowered to read and write.

He sees the iAfrica project going beyond children of school age as it also has the potential to support adults, especially women.

iAfrica Cloud School Foundation deploys a digital academic solution that gives unlimited access to every child regardless of age, location, or status, and is optimised for smartphones and available to all age groups desirous of opportunities to learn how to read and write. The literacy learning programme is learner-friendly without a barrier for non-English speaking learners.

This concept was formed by the convergence of two progressive initiatives namely the Lekki, Lagos-based Nursery and Primary School, Standard Bearer School (SBS), and the renowned Inclusive advocate, EDWIIN. For everyone in the SBS community, it is their way of giving back as a CSR project after the COVID-19 lockdown revealed an astronomical number of street youths and children.

Head Teacher, Mrs. Antonia Omonze, said that it was the godly thing to do being that Lekki was one of the more expensive communities to live in and it was disheartening to see that we cohabited with the poorest people. “Change will come if we all get involved.”

iAfrica has so far, introduced its concept in three different communities across Nigeria namely, Kuchigoro IDP camp Abuja, Roydek and Morning Dew Schools Makoko and CLAPAI Orphanage Jos, is also scheduled to come on board with The Ajegunle Library Project Ajegunle and the Itedo Community School.

Efforts to onboard teachers for training as the local educator counterparts within each community have commenced. To date, a total of 1,500 children in Nigeria are scheduled to embark on its pilot programme. Judging from the interactions in the various communities, the ‘learn to play and play to learn’ teaching pedagogy they adopted certainly captivated both the pupils and teachers alike and some teachers expressed excitement at the knowledge of them being able to acquire the new 21st Century skill for themselves.

With the synchronous and asynchronous learning programme, iAfrica is set to substantively reduce the worrisome statistics of 13.5 million out of school over the next 5 years.

A renowned educator and Executive Director of Standard Bearers Schools, Lekki, Modupe Adeyinka-Oni,
who is the founder of the iAfrica initiative, said the teaching of literacy in an engaging way that involves a multisensory programme will allow for inclusivity as the programme was designed around the Finnish teaching pedagogy, using the globally acclaimed Jolly Phonic Reading Programme. This allows for the various multiple intelligence styles to be incorporated fully into the lessons as each lesson is engaging with appropriate repetition to carry everyone along. The class activities can be done outside the classroom which takes the pressure of ‘serious learning’ off the children.

She went on to say that the programme has been designed for scale, however, funding poses a challenge.

“Beyond the economic meltdown and political crisis that have undermined the education system of Nigeria, every child, regardless of background and social standing, has a fundamental right of access to quality education as enshrined in important international protocols such as the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are therefore challenging ourselves and all well-meaning Nigerians to support our efforts,” She stated.

Modupe and her team are eager to bring the literacy level of the average child in Nigeria to a level where they can read, write and communicate effectively. This, they believe will help them in their various schools as reading remains the bedrock of all learning.

Interested community leaders and prospective sponsors are required to invite the iAfrica Foundation in writing with details of the community and peculiarities that will prepare the team effectively ahead of possible programme adoption.

“Within six months of its commencement in the target community, the Africa Cloud School Foundation expects that all participants will be reading 4-5 letter word without assistance and by the end of three cohorts of 3 months each their level of comprehension will have a direct impact on the levels of assimilation of their school’s curriculum with higher performance.

“It is a fact that our children are smart and once we show them the way, they will fly. No child should be left behind and with an alarming 60.5 million children and youths out of school and employment, it behoves on all Nigerians to support the programme in order to lift our nation out of the current economic crisis,” she said.

Uri Ngozichuckwuka went further to say that the best way to cultivate the young population is to give them a sound education and equip them for the opportunities and challenges of the future.

“The operation of iAfrica includes reskilling and upskilling teachers with the requisite training and learning modalities required for digital academic exercise.

“ We stream weekly live classroom teachings to children from the main school here in Lagos, thereby ensuring that the quality of education and learning process is not reduced at any
point.

To facilitate this process, we equip communities with laptops and projectors after giving teachers the necessary digital training to run some pre-recorded lessons. We also equip both students and teachers with workbooks. iAfrica currently focuses on providing the children with basic literacy which will enable them to read and write, a skill that is required irrespective of the career path one may choose in the future.

“Over time the model of education has proven to be wholly inadequate in preparing our young people for the opportunities and challenges of the future – not to mention the fact that quality education is increasing out of the reach of a large segment of the population in this country.

“It is time for us, as a nation, to reassess the ultimate purpose of education, so we can realign ourselves back to meeting global standards for all.

“The essence of early learning for children irrespective of the background is closely tied to community development, which is grounded in the principles of empowerment, human rights, inclusion, social justice, equality and respect for diversity, self-determination, synergy and teamwork,” she said.

The iAfrica Cloud School Project is an innovative educational initiative designed to give indigent children a unique learning experience in a bid to transform their present prospects and empower them to ultimately transform their communities and nation by extension.

The stakeholders thereby requested public interest and community leaders to join them in the battle against illiteracy and ignorance.

“It doesn’t matter where the children are. iAfrica meets them in their respective comfort zone. There are volunteers spread across the nation, who are trained and equipped with the requisite tools to teach the children using 21st century methods in a hybrid classroom.

So far reached no fewer than 2,000 students in Nigeria from its pilot project at the Kuchingoro IDP Camp in Abuja, to other economically challenged communities in Lagos State and around Nigeria such as Ajegunle, Makoko, Itedo and other suburbs in Lagos. And the initiative is currently having a conversation with other communities who have identified interest in her projects.”

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