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Giddy2School Education Initiative

Quality Education for All

Nigeria currently has 20.6 million children out of school, the world's highest and endemic situation that we are set out to solve - Using quality education to empower and reduce the illiteracy index. We have three thematic solutions approach and the overall aim is to reduce the out-of-school index in Africa, empower youth leadership, and overall sustainable development.

HundrED 2025

Overview

HundrED has selected this innovation to

HundrED Global Collection 2025

Web presence

2021

Established

6.87K

Children

3

Countries
Target group
Community
Updated
August 2024
Giddy2School Initiatives aim to remedy Nigeria's 20.6 million children and youths out-of-school crisis by 2030, we do this through targeted interventions and strategic partnerships, thereby reducing Nigeria’s illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty index as a compound effect. Our vision is to develop a community of young changemakers equipped with practical skills and strong leadership qualities.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

A GIS Report linked underdevelopment in Nigeria to illiteracy, civic apathy, unemployment, and lack of access to quality education. Post-Covid, 20.6 million youths are currently out of school. Apart from this, our formal school curriculum lacks the needed 21st-century skills. 7 in 10 graduates lack real-world application knowledge, hindering holistic development and problem-solving abilities.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

GIDDY2SCHOOL EDUCATION INITIATIVE is a nonprofit ameliorating the out-of-school and school
dropout index of children in low-income communities; rural and urban cities in Nigeria. While we have various initiatives around taking kids off the streets, our mission is to keep
children off the streets and in their schools until they graduate to reduce our communities poverty rate. An educated community is an empowered community.

The Innovation’s main objectives and activities revolve around:
1. Academic Revamps
2. Poverty alleviation palliative intervention
3. Fellowship, Career & Academic Mentorship.

In Practice, we are set out:
1. To support and empower young people through our tuition-free school, tuition aids, scholarships, and grants so they can be educated, self-reliant, solutions-driven, and responsible citizens,
2. To eradicate poverty having provided access to mentorship, quality education, vocational, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills through our Learning Management Systems

How has it been spreading?

Our innovations have been spreading through two major system designs:

1. Direct Beneficiaries: Our impact stories are on the increase yearly. Our book club programs have been expanding in secondary schools in several states in Nigeria, contributing to improved literacy rates.

Additionally, our academic fellowship program is designed to support secondary school leavers in transitioning to tertiary institutions. This program focuses on providing mentorship, scholarships, and opportunities for further education, and upskilling their leadership career.

2. Indirect Beneficiaries: We have developed an online leadership curriculum that is potentially accessible to millions of young leaders. This curriculum aims to enhance skills development and empower young people from diverse backgrounds.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Our various projects are focused on solving various problems in our communities. A proper dive into our value propositions would be to identify what problem we want to solve. However, you can apply to our fellowship program, enroll your school in our Academic ICU intervention, enroll your school or pupil in our GiddyBook Club, as well as stay updated via our website and social media platforms.

Impact & scalability

HundrED Academy Reviews

Giddy2School shows a significant impact on students' academic performance, leadership skills, and community involvement. The integration of mentorship and targeted interventions addresses the root causes of dropouts, ensuring sustainable benefits.

Giddy2School is scalable with the leadership curriculum, book club and academic fellowship that aim to enhance the literacy and practical skills of learners. Scalable in particular in contexts where more underprivileged groups exist.

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Implementation steps

Giddy2School Leadership Learning Management Systems
1. Go to www.giddy2school.org on the internet
2. Navigate to 'Project' Section on the website homepage
3. Click on GiddyLeadership Curriculum
4. There you have access to our Disruptive Leadership Education Curriculum for bridging the inadequacies on our formal education curriculum towards sustainable development goals, 21st century skills, design thinking, and national development.
Giddy2School Academic Fellowship
Our fellowship follows a strategic timeline that enables young people to actively participate, from age 16-35. To be a beneficiary of this, applicants need to be updated through our social media platforms for updates, eligibility, and proceedings.
1. Design the outcome mapping from project aim and objectives
2. Pick a thematic focus
3. Source for a model of sustainability
4. Implement and Pivot, and Evaluate.
Our official website is www.giddy2school.org and stay updated on our programs.
Giddy2School Academic ICU
This program is currently operated as 'School Embedded' which makes it an intervention strictly between the formal education space. Because of the nature of the target audience being low-fliers, and students who would naturally have dropped out of school if no special attention was given to them. A prospective user would enroll in a partner school in low-income communities to be a beneficiary. After performance evaluation, a tailored improvement plan would be designed for improved outcomes.
Giddy2School Book Club
1. Enrol beneficiary in a partner school
2. Show the critical need for literacy intervention
3. Get a literacy material/improvement design
4. Onboard facilitators,
5. Kickstart the club
6. Track, assess, and evaluate progress
Giddy2School Palliative Intervention
To do this project successfully, follow the following steps:
1. Source for a critical in-need low-income community.
2. Get the necessary legal consent or authorization
3. Do a pre-assessment of need
4. Do the feasibilities of intervention focus
4. Resource Mobilization and Distribution
5. Impact Recording and Evaluation

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