Many African families leaving in low-income communities are still suffering from extreme poverty, which prevents their children from attending school due to lack of school fees.
Aramide Kayode the founding executive Director of Talent Mine Academy in Nigeria says she started the school to empower children in low-income communities with access to quality education.
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The First-class Economics graduate of Covenant University and an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Education explains that she started with Saturday lessons, and then evolved to a model where she started enrolling children in low-income communities into top private schools.
“This model helped us to provide 52 children access to 12 years of fully funded quality education in private schools. However, early last year, we started getting reports that our primary school kids were being verbally abused in school. One of our students dropped out in January 2022 because of this,” she sadly said.
She further mentioned that they had a conversation with the school and they promised to fix it. But the children continued to feel unsafe.
This made another girl drop off in August last year and they started reporting that they were being called names in school – shoemaker son, zombie or something goes missing in class and they are the first suspect.
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“It takes a lot to convince a child from a low-income community to go to school. This is because school attendance does not yield quick profit compared to daily hawking. So, how then can we enroll children in a school, and wrong words are being used to kill their interest in learning?” she questioned.
The CEO mentioned that the challenges made start her own nursery and primary school, one that will provide a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for children in low-income communities to access quality education.
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“We have already secured a leased property, but we need your support to set up the space to be a conducive learning environment for our kids,” she added.
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