Time We Made A Change
It’s time for a change! Almost 50% of people living in Nigeria currently live in extreme poverty and we just think you understand. It means that if you meet about 100 people every day, 50 of them are living on...
Quality Education – The Solution!
Education is a fundamental human right. Millions of children are robbed of an education because of who they are, where the live or grew up, what social class they are born into and their gender. Many are deprived of learning...
A Bethesda child – Have You Met One?
A Bethesda child is the epitome of hope, always smiling and ever grateful. I have been fortunate to meet a lot of them and even though they are unique, they still have some similarities. They usually have a back story...
Education: The Answer to Extreme Poverty
Last week was about the world food day and the international day for the eradication of poverty. Tackling two very serious problems affecting our world today. World leaders and the world at large pulled together to discuss solutions to the...
Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable
According to UNICEF, there are currently 10.5 million children out of school in Nigeria. This is currently the highest number of out-of-school children in the world! Girls, street children and children of nomadic groups are the most affected. Cultural and...
Dear Child
You are the promise of a better today, Hope for a brighter world. Our expectations of you are high, Yet your constraints and challenges are many. But true greatness was never attained without a struggle Nor victory without a...
My Views on Child Beggars in Nigeria by Osamudiamen
In Lagos, according to research by an Economist on CNN, there are about 3 million beggars and about 1 million of them are children. Most of these children do not get the opportunity to have a quality education which deprives...
My Bethesda Experience by Urenna Uzoukwu.
Upon meeting the students of Bethesda Nursery and Primary School, I was very nervous. I have never given a presentation to a place like their school before, and I simply did not know what to expect. I understood that this...
Meet Olaitan!
We would like to introduce you to one of our rising academic superstars, Josephine Olaitan Ayanfe. She is in primary 1 and came first in her class this term. She scored 98% in English and 92% in Mathematics. Inspired by...
What Does It Really Take To Keep A Child In School?
Providing free education to disadvantaged children has never been easy for Bethesda. The model was to assign a child to a sponsor and each sponsor pays for a particular child’s school fees. Out of the 800 children currently enrolled...