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Pillar 02 · Education · In design · first cycle Aug 2026

Back-to-School Drive .

Notebooks, pens, school uniforms, sandals, backpacks, calculators. The basic kit a child needs to walk into school on the first day with everyone else.

§ 01 · The Drive

Why back-to-school drive?

The Back-to-School Drive aims at one stubborn fact: in a household that's choosing between food and notebooks, the notebooks lose. Children turn up to a Primary 4 classroom with one shared exercise book between three siblings, or no school sandals, and absorb the lesson that they are different from their peers before the teacher opens the textbook.

We pack age-banded school kits in the diaspora — Primary 1–3, Primary 4–6, JSS, SSS — and ship them to Iwere Land for distribution by school principals and the Pillar 02 Education committee.

The numbers that make this drive matter

  • Nigeria uses Primary (1–6), JSS (1–3), and SSS (1–3) — not US K-12 — and supplies are priced per child, per term.
  • A complete Primary kit (uniform, sandals, notebooks, pens, schoolbag) costs roughly $35 delivered in Warri.
  • School-uniform absence is the #1 reported reason for first-week absenteeism in Warri South LGA.
§ 02 · What goes in

The manifest.

Exercise books · 80-page
10–15 per child per term
Pens · pencils · erasers
Bic pens preferred — locally familiar
School uniforms
Sourced locally in Warri to support local tailors
Black school sandals
Required by most public schools
Backpacks (durable)
Sized for Primary or JSS
Mathematical sets · calculators
JSS + SSS only
Textbook subsidies
Cash component for term-specific texts
§ 03 · The cycle calendar

When this drive runs.

CycleNotesStatus
Aug 2026First Congress-wide cycle · ahead of Sept resumptionplanning
§ 04 · Ways to help

Pick the way that fits.

Send something home.

$35 fully equips one Primary student for a year Your contribution joins a published cycle with a published manifest.