Gabriel Oshokha
A non-governmental organisation, Onelife Initiative for Human Development, has launched a community-based learning programme targeting children who combine schooling with street trading in Oyo, Ekiti and Akwa Ibom states.
The project, tagged Standing School, will deliver basic literacy and numeracy lessons in community spaces such as viewing centres and television repair shops where children spend time after school.
Executive Director of the initiative, Sola Fagorusi, stated during the unveiling of the organisation’s permanent office in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, that the intervention seeks to address learning loss among children whose families depend on their income contributions.
“Some children, despite attending school, return home to engage in street trading because their parents depend on their contributions to household survival,” Fagorusi said.
He said the project would deploy digital educational resources to strengthen reading, spoken English and basic arithmetic for such children.
Fagorusi sought public support for the programme, stating that
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