A school in the slums of Bariga, which started three years ago to train children for stage shows, has metamorphosed into the only regular
school offering basic education to the community. SAMPSON UNAMKA reports on how the school is the bright spot in the community which lacks basic amenities.
Awobajo explained that their failure to attend school was because there was none in the community of about 15,000 people. “Some of the teachers have National Certificate in Education , Bachelor of Science Certificate and two Master’s students. We also have volunteers who come from the community. But it is compulsory that every teacher with BSc must go for teacher training every month. We send them to Learning As I Teach Foundation where they train teachers to be 21st century teachers”.
“Of course it is not government approved yet but it is going to be, we shall one day work towards it,” Awobajo said when asked about the school’s approval status. Thirty-seven of the children attending Bright Achievers School also live with Awobajo. The 28-year old Creative Arts graduate of the University of Lagos said the children remind him of his own childhood and how he was raised by strangers.
“I have been a student of Bright Achievers since last year, I was attending Ansar ud deen Nursery and Primary School. I moved from my previous school because my primary school teacher informed me about the examination going on in Bright Achievers, when I wrote the exam I passed and qualified. So he said if I’m interested in the school I should tell my parents. Ansar ud deen does not have a secondary school and I live in this community.
The 12-year-old said: “If I had an opportunity to rename Bright Achievers, I will rename it ‘small but mighty’, because as you can see the school is small, but as small as it is, what they teach us is mighty. They take us out for excursion; we have been to African Artist Foundation AAF and other places. My father is a military man, and my mum is a trader. I don’t stay in the community, I trek down from my home to school.
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