How They Educate Kids in Borno State, Nigeria, under Trees

There are about 40 pupils in a class. Instead of chairs, they have stones for seats. They have their laps as desks even if they can not use them because they have no exercise books or pencils. The tree branches above them luckily shelter them from the sun and they are equally lucky the rains had fallen the previous night. What would have bothered them, made them ill, in a village where there isnt even a dispensary, is the dump cold earth. But they are lucky they have stones that separated their bottoms from the earth. Their ages range from 4 to 5 years and are primary one pupils in Grim Primary School, Borno State, Nigeria.
The teacher, a volunteer, stands before the class with a whip as his only teaching aid. He has no blackboard and therefore wouldnt even dream of having chalk or duster. It is the tail end of the second term and the learning level of these pupils is the repetition of the English alphabets after the teacher. With youthful energy and eagerness to learn, they repeat the alphabets, as their parents, who out of sheer zeal to see their children get education, left them behind at school while they planted on their farms

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• Borno
• State
• Nigeria
• under
• Trees

[almustash]

It is so sad, leaderofnow.

[leaderofnow]

and sas is at as party spraying money on a female singer

[Fabatcha]

I feel ashame of how Nigeria is functioning. If we can provide for future then what do have