The Foundation's assessment at Durumi IDP camp in the Federal Capital Territory found what assessments in non-camp and camp settings across Nigeria tend to find: children present, willing and without a place to sit and learn.
The response was a classroom furniture project agreed with camp coordinators. The detail that matters is who is building it. The carpenter lives in the camp.
Where a community holds the skill, we buy it there. The same expenditure creates a learning space and an income, and a piece of furniture made by a neighbour is a piece of furniture that gets repaired rather than replaced.
