Hiring of Therapists, Sign Language Interpreters, Digital and Vocational Instructors
Public Inclusive or Mainstream schools In Nigeria do not have therapists in school. This is essentially needed to aid growth of differently-abled children. In addition, there is 1 sign language interpreter to 50 children with disabilities in public inclusive schools. This demotivates every child with disability. To aid holistic development of children with disabilities, therapists […]
Renovation of Inclusive Schools
School buildings of children with disabilities in Africa are dilapidated. This increases marginalization and makes education inaccessible for children with disabilities. This year, we want to renovate 4 inclusive schools in Africa. This will give over 500 children with disabilities access to quality and inclusive education. Education is the basic right of every child irrespective […]
Building of Skill Empowerment Center (TVET CENTER)
Children with disabilities can thrive, become independent and contribute their quota to the society when empowered with skills tailored to their abilities. We want to build an empowerment center to empower over 1 million differently-abled children with digital and vocational skills such as graphics design, web design, coding, shoemaking, tailoring, hairdressing, catering, arts and crafts. […]
THIS ABILITY 2.0
This is our second annual children’s day event for celebrating children with disability. The theme is unleashing abilities in disability. It’s a disability awareness event to enlighten the society about abilities of special needs children. It going to take place May 26/27th 2023. The event consist of Parent Seminar, Talent competition and Skill Exhibition of […]
Getting Out-of School Children back to School
UNICEF published in January, 2022 – “10.5 million children are out of school in Nigeria, which is the highest rate in the world. ” Nigeria has the world’s highest rate of out-of-school children. In Nigeria’s 2022 budget signed into law, 7.2 per cent is allocated to the education sector which is very less compared to […]
Sport Fest
This is an annual event dedicated to show the sporting abilities in children with disabilities. It is done to commemorate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities . This event will be held on December, 3rd 2022. We will be inviting four inclusive schools with over 200 children with disabilities, vendors who are persons with […]
Building Of A Digital Innovation Hub
This is a long term plan of Raising Star Africa to build a private digital innovation hub that will privately cater for every child with disabilities in Lagos, Nigeria. We will enroll children with disability immediately graduating from secondary school for early intervention. We will equip them with skills such as coding, web design, programming […]
Impacting Skills To Children with Disability
Children with disability needs a lifelong skill to become independent and interdependent in future. We will be employing vocational teachers who will empower our children with vocational skills peculiar to the children in five inclusive schools for 2022/2023 session.
