Like most girls in Northeast Nigeria, Sidikat, an eight-year old girl living in the rural part of Northeast Nigeria has never set foot in a school. She is orphaned, having lost her parents when they flee from an insurgent attack.

So, the best thing her community thinks is best for her is to be an errand girl. And when she is ten or eleven, she would be married off to an older man who they suppose can take care of her.

Let’s talk about Hajarra, a child mother of sixteen with no education or skill. Hajarra is caught in the vicious web of illiteracy, ignorance, and poverty. Having no money, education, skill, or a husband, Hajarra is left with two boys who help out on her small farm Hajjara’s husband has left for town in serach of better economic conditions – and for two years now, nothing has been heard about him.

RACEEI to the rescue! Through the organisation’s sub initiative, Project ‘Quality Education for All’, Sidikat and Hajarra can now participate in the accelerated literacy and numeracy programm. While Sidikat now goes to a proper school, thanks to the sponsorship provided by RACEEI’s project ‘Quality Education for All’, Hajjara now sews for the community to earn a living – having been sponsored by RACEEI’s Project ‘Quality Education for All’