EDUCATION MISSION

Education:
The challenge of African community is to provide African children with the same or better quality public education as their counterparts in other parts of the world. NPU-USA supports efforts to provide quality instruction and leadership, promote professional development, develop effective curricula (pre-school through 12) through pilot projects, increase community involvement, and enhance basic skills and further literacy enrichment. After-school activities and intramural sports with academic components have received on-going support to help fill gaps in the extra-curricular programming.
In recognition of the pivotal role of quality teaching and leadership, the organization also supports recruitment and retention efforts, teacher training, and principal recruitment.


Areas of interest include:

  • Building classrooms, computer labs, libraries, science labs, and sport recreation areas.
  • Stimulating creativity and productivity among young people and adults through programs that encourage learning as a lifelong process.
  • Providing international volunteers to teach in classrooms, work in the health centers, libraries, and laboratories.
  • Organizing and operating summer camps, youth groups, preschools, and teacher training facilities,
  • Securing books, school supplies, and educational materials for the classrooms
  • Pre-school through 12 curriculum development
  • After-school programs
  • Literacy enrichment
  • Teacher recruitment and training
  • Technology education
  • Career and technology education programs
  • Advanced academic/gifted and talented programming
  • Post-graduate remediation curriculum
  • Access to higher education institutions
  • Alternative schools/programs, particularly high schools
  • Principal recruitment, development and retention
  • Transition from high school to community college and to two-and four-year colleges
  • Working in partnership with the Nigerian Government, the United Nations, the U.S. Peace Corps, non-governmental organizations, universities, and high schools throughout the world.