(Written by Njideka Raleke-Obiora) Fair Life Africa’s Disadvantage to Advantage initiative seeks out children with potential, but who are disadvantaged, and enrols them in educational and vocational institutions for learning and development. Ten young children have now been assisted with payment of their school fees, owing to their excellent performances in academics. Unfortunately, we are all…
Category: Child Development
Against The Odds!
(Written by Njideka Raleke-Obiora) Typically, children from disadvantaged families are associated with poor performance in school or outright illiteracy. However, we have come across children from impoverished homes who have a thousand and one reasons not to excel, but have totally defied these odds, and are excelling in their academics and many other skills. One…
Diet and Education – Are they related?
(Co-Written with Njideka Raleke-Obiora and Simran Daryanani) Education is something that most of us are concerned about, and as an organisation working with children, it is important to us too. Often, the approach to dealing with poor academic achievement is to throw more money at the problem, or instill more discipline. However, could it be as…