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EU and UNICEF Launch €1 Million Education Program for 20,000 Children in Nigeria
The European Union and UNICEF have initiated a €1 million effort in Nigeria's Sokoto State to return over 20,000 children to school amid ongoing conflict. The two-year program includes accelerated learning, infrastructure improvements and psychosocial support. Similar education disruptions persist in Sudan, where 8 million children remain out of school due to civil war.
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The European Union and UNICEF launched a €1 million intervention in Sokoto State, Nigeria, to bring over 20,000 conflict-affected children back to safe classrooms over the next two years. The programme, funded by the European Union's humanitarian arm ECHO, targets children aged 5 to 17 living in internally displaced persons camps and host communities across Sokoto State.
It aims to expand access to quality education and life skills for vulnerable children.
Community-led enrolment campaigns will identify and register out-of-school children under the initiative. Children who have missed years of learning will be placed in accelerated learning programmes, while those already in school will receive remediation support to build foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
The project will rehabilitate water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities in target schools.
It will also provide training in basic pedagogy and crisis-sensitive teaching methods for educators. Mental health and psychosocial support services will be offered, including child-friendly spaces. Over the 24-month period, the programme will strengthen Education in Emergencies coordination at state and local government levels.
Alexandre Castellano, head of the European Union's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Office in Nigeria, said, 'No child should have their future determined by conflict. In a related education crisis across Africa, 8 million children in Sudan are currently out of school, according to UNICEF.
