We are utterly thrilled to welcome you to our monthly newsletter—your exclusive pass to the heart of our mission, vision, and all the incredible work we are doing together. But before we dive into the juicy details, we want to take a moment to say a heartfelt THANK YOU. There are no Child Scholars without YOU.
September marked the end of summer break and return to school. We are excited to welcome back 53 children and five teachers to Veritas Academy, Ikorodu Nigeria!
Nigerian Cooking Class This July the Okenyes taught a Nigerian cooking class as a fundraiser. We auctioned the class as a donation item at Geneva Academy, a Christian School in Roseburg, Oregon.
We are raising funds to write an online curriculum that our kids in Nigeria and other English-speaking countries around the work can use.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas! Over the last few weeks, we have been invited on some media appearances to tell our story. Another local TV show featured us as The Emerging Leader of the month. Here’s the hyperlink to the 3 min video.
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Here at Child Scholars, we are gearing up for a very BIG day in the nonprofit world: this year’s #GivingTuesday. We want to make this year’s global day of philanthropy our best yet—please join the movement and help make education education a reality for disenfranchised kids in Africa.
I wanted to send you a note to thank you for your generous support this past year. Your contribution during our fundraising event helped us provide education to more than 40 disenfranchised kids in Nigeria. It was an amazing thing to accomplish. Without you, we simply would not have reached as many kids.
Public school is not free in Nigeria. Lee University alum Emmanuel Okenye experienced this firsthand while growing up in the town of Ikorodu, and he often had to skip meals in order to pay for his education. Years later, in an effort to offer better education and health care to children in Nigeria, Okenye started the nonprofit Child Scholars shortly after he graduated from Lee.
When he was growing up in Nigeria, Emmanuel Okenye, OMS III, says his family’s grocery money was often spent on his and his siblings’ schooling. Okenye vowed that if he got into college someday, he would find a way to help kids living in poverty go to school.
