Every year Slum2School Africa identifies vulnerable out-of-school children across several under-served communities and States in Nigeria, the volunteers and partners raise resources, funds and develop new partnerships to provide scholarships and enroll the children into schools where they are educated and supported through school.

Since 2012 Slum2School has enrolled over 1660 children into schools and supported over 32,000 children through various programs and this year was no different.

The Fundraising campaign to sponsor one thousand out of school children into school was officially kick-started on Saturday the 18th of August 2018 and was themed #AThousandDreams. The goal was to raise resources to enroll a thousand children into school for the 2018/2019 academic session and on the 27th of October Slum2School successfully enrolled 510 out-school-children between the ages of 4 years and 15 years into schools for the first time.

The enrollment ceremony was officially opened by the Board Director of the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Mrs Abosede Adelaja, and in attendance were the founder of Slum2School, Orondaam Otto, board members like Dr Modupe Adefeso and several volunteers, several board members from the ministry of Education, Directors and Board members from SUBEB, the Commissioner for Budget and Planning in Ogun State Ms Rele Adesina, the Country Director for Dutche bank, Mrs Abiola Azeez, Professor Abiola Awosika  and several admirable personalities.

Acceptance letters and enrolment cards were given to successfully selected children across communities like Iwaya, Sogunro, Makoko, Aiyetoru, Tarkwabay etc and each were presented with their school bags, school supplies and kits.

Various partners for the campaign were in attendance and hundreds of volunteers were equally in attendance. Eat n Go Nigeria Limited, who lauched a fundraising campaign for Slum2School using their coldstone brand were present with boxes of Domino's pizza, and hundreds of Cold Stone Ice-cream and Pinkberry Yoghurt for the children, while also presenting a cheque of N2.4 million to sponsor more children to school.

A major highlight of the event was the tour into the community to visit some beneficiaries and among the important guests that were present were Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, Co-founder of Transparency International and former word bank Vice president, Meirav Arlosoroff, Senior commentator and editor, The Marker daily newspaper, Gary Sussman and a host of others local and international volunteers.

Slum2School Enrollment Ceremony for 2018 was very colorful and inspiring and as always the volunteers put in time and energy to make sure the event was a success. Over the coming weeks more enrolments will take place in communities across Port Harcourt, Abuja, Borno and Ibadan.

Slum2School Africa has undertaken several projects in the past in line with its vision to ensure that every child irrespective of their background is given the best quality of education. Apart from providing scholarships and series of support to over 32,000 children, over the past years some learning centers which had been built includes several Early childhood development centres, school clinics, computer labs, STEM and Innovation Labs, e-library etc and thousands of partners, volunteers and mentors support the children with various learning tools across these learning spaces.

In one of Slum2School’s adopted schools within the Makoko community which is being developed to become a model public primary school both in the quality of education and infrastructure, on the 27th of October, 2018, Slum2School launched its Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) where over 1000 children and youth between the ages of 9 years and 24 years will learn how to set up small businesses and also learn skills to become professionals.

As a principle, Slum2School believes that a wholesome education involves training the head, the heart and the hands, as education is not just about academics. A child has to have a wide repertoire of skills and the confidence and enabling environment to fulfil their potentials. 

The organization also understands the importance of skills acquisition as a means of poverty alleviation and revenue generation. Preparing the children intellectually and technically to face the challenge of 21st century therefore becomes the driving factor behind the establishment of the Enterprise Development Centre.

The Enterprise Development Centre is a learning centre where children and youth can learn relevant skills like fashion design, tailoring, bead making, cooking, catering, shoe and bag making etc.

Speaking at the commissioning, the founder of Slum2Shcool, Mr. Orondaam Otto mentioned that the project was funded by Slum2School volunteers and it will be managed by well trained staff. The centre is a facility containing different sections and machinery. It consists of sewing machines, kitchen equipment, shoe making tools, bead and bag making machines, hair dressing and make up kits e.t.c

Slum2School believes that this will go a long way to improve their mental abilities and teach them the requisite skills required for future relevance in life.

2019 is one to look forward to as Slum2School plans to scale into several new communities and states across Nigeria and Africa and volunteers and partners are welcome to be part of this impact.

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#Together Let’s Do More.

Slum2School Africa is proud to announce her 1st Global Campaign for Education which is scheduled to hold on Saturday October 10, and Sunday October 11, 2015.

As part of their ongoing fundraising campaign to enroll 1000 children into schools within slums in Lagos, IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps in Abuja and eventually across northern Nigeria, they are organizing a global campaign for education with over 20 different mind blowing activities taking place this weekend.

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We would like to share some pictures from our Global campaign for education with took place across 10 countries over the past weekend. Our volunteers stretched themselves and took on over 20 challenging and thrilling activities with a goal to create awareness and raise funds to support the education of the less privileged children. It was filled with so much excitement with several of our celebrity ambassadors and supporters like, Monalisa Chinda, Seyi Shay, Tunde Ednut, Lala Akindoju, Isaac Geralds and many more.

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