I-Africa Foundation Extends Scholarships, Empowers Indigent Students in Lagos

iAfrica Foundation, a UK registered charity working within some of the poorest communities in Africa, the initiative founder, Modupe Adeyinka-Oni, has called for collaboration to reduce illiteracy to a barest minimum in the country through supportive educational stakeholders. 

Adeyinka-Oni who also doubles as Executive Director, Standard Bearers Schools, Lekki, made the call at the foundation’s trustees and award ceremony held recently at Yaba Local Council, Adekunke, Lagos.

She that, “The teaching of literacy in an engaging way which involves a multi-sensory programme will allow for inclusivity while reaching out especially to indigent and underprivileged children. Nigeria has some of the world’s highest number of illiterate and uneducated people. That is not only unsustainable but a recipe for disaster. This is the first edition of the awards but it doesn’t end there. We will be back next year. At the edu lab, we are raising a generation of independent, confident and fast thinkers.”

Roy Dek Academy and Morning Dew Academy were the two schools that participated in the implementation of the education programme and had four pupils from the two schools get scholarships in forms of books, tuition and cash awards. Eighteen pupils also got certificates at the awards ceremony as well. Some of the visibly elated awardees and their parents thanked i-Africa for the initiative and prayed for the continued existence of the initiative as well as the brains behind the programme.

Adeyinka-Oni added that, “We instill in them the conviction to be Africans in a genuine way. We are not Europeans. We do not copy their styles. We want to raise a generation of authentic and confident African children. We are also in collaboration with some companies in Finland and we are domesticating maths and science for these children.”