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Education & Skills

Displacement takes children out of school, often for years. This pillar exists to put them back in, keep them there, and carry those who can go further as far as they are able to go.

Educate the mindPillar 1 of 3

Our first pillar is built on a conviction the Foundation inherited from the educationist Dr A. A. Nwafor-Orizu: to educate the mind is to liberate it. We treat education and skills not as acts of generosity but as the most effective and lasting route out of poverty.

A child out of school for three years does not simply resume where they stopped. That is why this pillar covers catch-up learning as well as fees, and why we measure whether a child is still in school at the end of the year rather than whether a fee was paid.

The work

Programmes in this pillar

3 programmes sit within this pillar.

A boy writing in an exercise book at a shared classroom desk while other children work beside him
Education & SkillsOur flagship education programme

Learning Access & Retention

Known publicly as Train a Child

Gets out-of-school children back into school, and keeps them there.

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A boy sitting at a wooden desk in a classroom, smiling towards the camera
Education & Skills

Synia Scholars Fund

Scholarships for senior secondary and tertiary study.

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Two children leaning on a classroom bench together, smiling
A young girl laughing, with other children playing behind her
A group of women and girls standing together, smiling
An older man sitting on a kerb, smiling towards the camera

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