FastTrack is one of AREAi’s leading educational intervention programs that combines contemporary technology and innovative solutions to help out-of-school internally displaced persons (IDP) children learn and grow in literacy and numeracy.
Despite Universal Basic Education (UBE), which provides free education for the first nine years of schooling in all Nigerian states, social, traditional, and cultural barriers, as well as infrastructural deficits, continue to be major factors discouraging parents from enrolling their children, particularly girls, in school.
Aid for Rural Education Access Initiatives launches the Getting Girls Equal Project with a press conference in Oyo State to address gender disparities and barriers to girls’ education.
The objective of this TOR is to develop a QR Code attendance mobile application to collect data, keep the data secure, and accessible, and generate accurate and timely reporting.
AREAi hereby solicits a quotation for the following service: “The Provision of mobile phone devices with warranty”. AREAi – GGE Initiative is looking for mobile phone service providers for the provision of mobile phone devices for 60 sets with a 2-year warranty.
We Won! AREAi was selected as the winner of the 2022 LEAP Challenge Project, hosted by Solve-MIT and the Jacobs Foundation. Earlier this year, Aid for Rural Education Access initiatives joined the LEAP Challenge using AREAi’s flagship program, Fastrack.
The Digital Skills Accelerator program of the Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative, aimed at training 300 secondary school girls in basic digital skills across ten secondary schools in Nigeria’s Federal Capital, Abuja.
The desire to ensure that all children can exercise their fundamental right to learn inspires AREAi to remain a driving force in the education world and to be recognized where it matters.
The year 2022 began with a goal of ending learning poverty and transforming education by expanding the reach of AREAi’s flagship program, FastTrack, to provide foundational literacy and numeracy skills to 2,500 out-of-school refugee children in 4 Internally displaced camps.
Imagine a child who is in primary 3 and can’t pronounce the word “cup” correctly. Nor can he identify the letters in the word “mother.” Imagine children randomly picked from Primary 4, and they can’t do a normal subtraction of two digits nor identify mathematical symbols like subtraction, Plus, Division. How bad!
Truly, HumansofAREAi have made the journey of impacting lives and making a statement in education for a better world a realistic and achievable dream for Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative, AREAi, day by day.
According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU), more than half of the wolrd’s women who are not online and who will work in a developed sectors will be exposed to low pay, abuse and exploitation.
For decades, the 27th of May has been dedicated to celebrating children in Nigeria. This year’s celebration presents a unique opportunity to reiterate our commitment to leveraging innovation, technology, and collaboration in driving foundational skills development, digital equity, girls’ education, and access to education for children across Nigeria.
Following his remarkable organisational accomplishments and significant contributions to the advancement of educational development globally and locally, AREAi’s Founder and Chief Executive, Prince Gideon Olanrewaju, has emerged as one of the newest Malala Fund Education Champions, a network of education activists who are creating solutions to address systemic barriers to girls’ secondary education in their communities and countries.
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi and the Chief Executive Director, Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) flanked by representatives of the AREAi Team to the left and NITDA to the right.