Empowering Shelves

Donate books, change lives

Empowering Shelves is a platform that seeks to bridge the gap in Nigeria's educational sector. We intend to do this by donating books, creating supportive reading environment as well as volunteer ICT teaching programs in schools which is geared at increasing capacity development for teachers and educators while increasing  involvement in ICT development in line with the United Nation's goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all.

We believe teachers and educators have the right to access tools that will sustainably create an enabling environment for sound teaching at all levels. Also, with increased access to relevant textbooks, students can get steps closer to finding their pathway to success.

Our aim is to provide accessible educational materials to schools in Nigeria, while creating an awareness on the importance of books, a healthy reading habit and it's contribution to quality education. 

Nigeria has over 10 million out-of-school children, representing approximately 20% of the world's total out of school children. With inadequate facilities, lack of qualified teachers and unstable government policies, the educational system in Nigeria is in such a deplorable state. Empowering Shelves is a platform that seeks to bridge the gap in Nigeria's educational sector. We intend to do this by donating educational materials to teachers, creating supportive reading environment as well as volunteer teaching programs in line with the UN's goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all. 

 Technology is integral to our solution because of the need for e-reading centers and hubs, training of teachers with the latest cutting-edge technology which have been identified as a sustainable means of providing long-term learning opportunities for all. A new innovation in the latest educational model was built to deliver information to students and the general public,teaching them basic facts and knowledge.

With the guiding principle of education in Nigeria being to equip every citizen with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values as to enable him/her to derive maximum benefits from his/her membership in society, lead a fulfilling life and contribute to the development and welfare of the community.

our 12 month goal is to:

1. Train Teachers so as to increase their involvement in the ICT ecosystem.  
2. Create new reading spaces across the 6 geo political zones in Nigeria.
3. To renovate existing learning centers in the 6 geo political zones in Nigeria.

A survey of the Nigerian educational scene reveals a series of disparities. There is disparity between urban and rural schools, and between schools owned and controlled by the federal government and those owned and controlled by the states and private agencies.

1. We seek to reduce these disparities by providing teachers and educators with quality educational materials, computer lab, thereby improving teachers skill-sets. 

2. We would work with international community partners to conduct trainings for teachers at all levels

Equip schools with the necessary resources, libraries, books facilities and providing adequate training for teachers which have been identified as essential to making literacy widely available to all Nigerians. 

We have been able to identify 20 schools in need quality educational materials and we seek to donate books monthly to schools in areas facing security challenges in Nigeria.

With over of 10 million out-of-school children in Nigeria and 65 million illiterates, We intend to reduce the number of out of school children 20% by 2022 by donating books to schools and the number of illiterates by 20% while creating new learning centers across Nigeria.

The wealth of knowledge at solve is enormous and with MIT being the seat of knowledge in the world, we know there is much we can learn from your monitoring and evaluation teams.

Travelling to the northern part of Nigeria and security threatened areas to donate books are a big challenge for us, as well as access to meaningful funding. 

Solve can help by providing funds for the platform.