Teach the Child is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of the highly competitive Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF) grant. This award of the $10,000 development grant will provide funding to support Teach the Child’s ongoing efforts to advance educational reform in Nigeria and implement the 100 Youth Project.

About Teach the Child:
Teach the Child is a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping young individuals to become economically self-sufficient adults through improved literacy skills. These 21st-century skills enhance every individual’s ability to thrive in today’s rapidly changing world. Learn more at teachthechild.org

About NYFF:
The Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF) is a collaborative program of LEAP Africa, MacArthur Foundation, and Ford Foundation that seeks to strengthen, support and enable young people in Nigeria for youth leadership, activism and social change through outcome-driven policy engagements and inclusive resourcing that will support youth in shaping and supporting medium and long-term national development.

“The NYFF grant is indeed very timely for us as an organization and It will go a long way in spearheading youth active participation in policy enactment towards a more efficient educational system in Nigeria. Especially as we are faced with the dire consequences of an ill-equipped educational system which has resulted in the high rate of unemployment and underemployment with the youth being the most affected population” – Blessing Onwudiwe, Project Manager, Teach the Child

What we hope to achieve through this project is an educational reform. One that focuses on strengthening the capacity of young people to meet the current needs of the job market nationally and internationally.

Signed:
Pearl Utuk
Chief Executive Director, Teach The Child