Prioritise Education Amidst COVID-19 - International Day of Education: Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation.
Words like "I just want to thank you for supporting me thus far. May God Almighty bless you... My generation would forever be grateful to you," is part of the reasons we keep at what we do in ensuring that we contribute our little quota towards educational development particularly in Nigeria. That statement is from one of our beneficiaries. About 11 years ago, among other children, he was in JSS 2 in a rural settlement in Ekiti State where we started our outreach on education. Today, he is a 400 level civil engineering student in University of Benin (UNIBEN), sponsored by SHADE-IN. The truth is, when you educate a person, you educate a generation. When you deprive a person of education, you deprive a generation. Through our previous researches, we have identified key issues in the Nigerian educational system, using some schools in Edo State as a case study. While solving these issues has been an uphill task for the Nigerian Government, COVID-19 has posed its own challeng