Education – The Rising Star

The Fair Life Gist: The Girl Child

There’s this brilliant 12-year-old girl who lives down my street. Let’s call her Blessing. We don’t interact that much, but I’ve noticed that she’s always up very early. Sometimes when I’m on my morning jog, I’d see this girl balancing a bucket of water on her head, coming from the community borehole which is quite a distance from her house.

My heart twists inside my chest each time I see her. I mean, if she’s waking up that early, at least let it be to revise for a probable test coming up at school later in the day, not to begin with neck breaking work…

The Fair Life Gist: True Independence

Did you know that across Nigeria, an estimated 18.3 million children are currently out of school? That’s 10.2 million children of primary-school age and 8.1 million at the junior-secondary level! And this statistic is based on a 2024 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, so it isn’t hear-say.

What this means is that roughly 15% of the global out-of-school cumulative stems from Nigeria, especially the rural and northern regions.

When a child is locked out of the classroom for any reason, it creates a chain reaction that traps families in cycles of poverty and vulnerability…

The Fair Life Gist: New Beginnings

If you stepped out on the streets of most Nigerian states last week Monday, I’m sure you couldn’t have missed it. There was that typical back to school vibe in the air: the energetic hustle of parents ushering their wards to school, new backpacks strapped over pressed uniforms, and sparkling white socks in danger of turning a different shade by afternoon…

Valentine’s Brunch with the New Kids

Last Saturday, we invited the FLA Kids enrolled in our Disadvantage to Advantage Initiative to join us for a brunch at Woodgreen, Lekki. About half the children in attendance were not part of our last Valentine’s Brunch,which we held at Foodies Lekki in 2020, right before the lockdown. It was great to see so many…

Valentine’s Day at Pinefield Schools

The world over, Valentine Day is a day set aside to show love, not just between couples, but to friends, family, and neighbors. In the spirit of love, Pinefield Schools, Lekki usually extend an invitation to their adopted children for their Annual Valentine’s Day Event. This year’s theme was ‘God is Love,’ with the text…

A Mother’s Testimony: How FLA Has Impacted My Life

As published on GlobalGiving.org on 29/08/2022. We reached out to one of our sponsored children’s guardians for a testimony, and this is what she wrote: Dear Sponsor, My daughter, Precious, joined FLA Kids in 2018, and since then it has an amazing experience for her and a dream come true for me, cos we were…

Just in Time for Christmas…

It’s been a tough year for Mary, but it seems she has a guardian angel… Mary met her sponsor, Yinka, for the first time at our Valentine’s Brunch, which held at Foodies, Lekki, this year. They had time to chat and get to know more about each other, and Mary shared about some of her…

This Christmas, Give The Gift Of Education

Last year, during our Girl Empowerment Programme, which we did with SAGE Foundation, we met 12 year-old Mary. She’s a brilliant girl, who hails from Oyo State. She lives with her mother and three siblings in Jakande, Lekki, in Lagos state and attends a small private school within her community. She is now is JSS2…

Interview With Our First Valedictorian

Read our latest approved GlobalGiving report! *** Our report today comes in a different format. We thought it is about time you hear from the mouths of the children we support together, directly, so we are carrying out our first ever interview with an FLA Kid. She also happens to be the first Valedictorian among our…

Chronicles of a Social Worker – The Beauty of Dreams

A better car, a better house, better grades… The list is endless as to what every individual wants in life. Human want is insatiable. There’s never a state of utopia as different stages of our lives demands we go higher than our current levels. Every significant movement up the ladder of progress has its share…

Chronicles of a Social Worker – Fighting Poverty Through Education

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela The United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17th and this year’s theme was Overcoming Extreme Poverty. According to Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO, ending poverty is not…

Chronicles of a Social Worker – In Need Of A Miracle

‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.’ – Maya Angelou Walt Disney’s animated stories are always fun to watch. Take the evergreen story of Cinderella for instance. A young lady finds herself at the mercy of her cruel step-mother and step-sisters after her father unexpectedly dies. Despite her circumstances, she refuses…