HOPEVISION CHILDREN SCHOOL, Ilaje (Ago-Egun Community)
Ilaje (Ago-Egun Community) is one of the most “secluded” areas in Bariga, It is an age-long watershed community area first inhabited by the Egun people
known for their remarkable fishing exploits. The suburban community is densely packed with finely built makeshift wooden structures and a slightly modern version of concrete buildings, devised by Yoruba settlers in the early 90s — from where families live and carry out their daily activities. Secluded area With decaying housing structures and littered gutter-like surroundings, these hybrid community dwellers are happy but not satisfied as they carry out their everyday dealings peacefully and mindfully. In what looks like thatch-roofed shanties of window-and-floor planking, the community people, though unassuming from afar, possess a very strong sense of self-protection, at a much deeper level.
In the entire ilaje area there is no public school and public amenities
are completely nowhere to be found, for instance, no public school, no
hospital, no good road and no pipe burn water for drinking.
The children are all over playing during school hours and poor parents
complain that they have no money to sponsor the children education
at any level.
WHAT WE INTEND TO DO
we have an existing school structure with 10 standard classrooms, 110
Children in various classes, and a kitchen and we intend to do the
following
1. Attract and enroll 150 additional children, 90 girls and 60 boys.
2. Employ 5 new teachers
3. Raise 12 months' salaries for 5 newly employed teachers
4. Equipped the School kitchen with a Gas cooker, 300 plates, and
spoons.
5. School Uniforms for 120 newly enrolled children.
6. 300 bags and stationery for 300 children.
7. Employment of 2 non-teaching staff the Nanny and gateman