Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory in Nigeria, about 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school.

Education deprivation in northern Nigeria is driven by various factors, including economic barriers, cultural norms, and practices that discourage attendance in formal education, especially for girls.

This project builds on a legacy that VCC started 15 years ago during the Luke 4 Challenge campaign, when we learned that people in rural Nigeria were dying for no reason other than lacking clean water.

Today we have the opportunity to partner with God again in this area of Nigeria, to change the course of history, and to end generational poverty for hundreds—if not thousands—of children.

• More than 120 children will be served in both the high school and vocational school in the first year, with a capacity to expand to 300 students the following year.
  
  
• The schools will employ 65 members—teachers, assistants, psychologists, administration staff, cooks, cleaners, and security—that will be local from Nigeria.
  
  
• A vocational school will offer catering, digital marketing and coding training, carpentry, metalwork, cosmetics, and mechanic classes.
  
  
• Graduates will know what it means to have an authentic relationship with Jesus.
  
  
• The children attending this school are less likely to be targets of human trafficking.
  
  
• As a result of the trauma-informed education, students will know how to give care, receive care, negotiate, work as a team and use their voice to advocate for their own needs and those of others.
  
  
• Families will be transformed, experiencing restoration and healing as a result of the teachers’ work with the children and their families.
  
  
• These schools will change the course of history for hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children in Nigeria every year.