The Civitas Auxillium Foundation (CAF) has donated desks with chairs, books, and writing materials to six schools inside the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in the Wasa area of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Development Diaries reports that the effort was part of the nonprofit’s ‘CAF-Kit a Child School Outreach Programme’, supported by Equipping the Needy Initiative, Abuja.
According to CAF’s Chief Operations Officer and founder, Elizabeth Duille, the initiative aims to give less privileged children, especially those living in IDP camps, access to high-quality education and learning resources so they can realise their potential and fulfil their dreams.
Moving Star Academy, Tanzak Best Academy, Seat of Wisdom Academy, ECWA Zion Academy, Deseret Preston Academy, and Well Bred Academy were among the beneficiary schools.
‘The aim of this organisation is to support vulnerable women and children, who have been victims of violent conflicts across Nigeria, and most of them reside in the IDP camps’, Duille said.
‘There are over 5,000 IDPs residing in this camp. So, we selected six schools with an average of 800 pupils that we are currently working with.
‘We identified their needs and discovered that there was no basic infrastructure in over 50 percent of them. They have no chairs, schoolbooks to write and, of course, textbooks’.
The organisation delivered wooden desks with chairs attached, 2,000 notebooks, and kits of writing supplies like pencils, erasers, and biros.
A representative of Equipping the Needy Initiative, Nathaniel Agu, reiterated their commitment to helping the needy, orphans and vulnerable groups.
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