A team of U-Reporters resident in Maiduguri, North-east Nigeria have emerged global winners under the Education category of the Generation Unlimited Youth challenge. This initiative in its second edition is organized by Generation Unlimited, UNICEF, UNDP, Plan International, and the Scouts
Team MUDA at the UNICEF Field Office, Maiduguri during the Announcement of their win
Coming one year after the first sets of winners were elated with huge waves of excitement, inspiration, and enthusiasm, this year’s competition scaled up from an initial participation from 16 countries to 36 countries participating in the global contest. Teeming ideas must have flooded the competition as young people all over the world demonstrated the use of vibrant skills to solve community-based issues. Potentially pitching their willingness to have their innovative ideas supported through seed funding, mentoring by some of the brightest minds out there and networks that expand horizons, team MUDA shared their ideas amidst the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The team are concerned with the staggering number of Nigerian youths not in school despite primary education being free and compulsory. In order to address this issue, the team developed Street2school, a blended online-offline community learning hub that empowers adolescents who are not in school to learn basic foundational and soft skills.
The team members are: Jubilee Ayuba, Abdulkadir Ahmed, Haruna Ibrahim Ahmed, and Shamang Deborah. With a vision to reach over 2,000 young people aged between 13-20 years from marginalized communities across Northeastern Nigeria the team are using alternative learning methods to access basic literacy, numeracy and soft skills by 2023. They also envision that the initiative will impact-fully provide the street children with the necessary skills required to become productive members of their own communities.
As active U-Reporters the members of team MUDA have benefited from the information shared on U-Report24x7. They have also grown aware of the community needs with a matching solution driven team work. You too can become a U-Report by sending SHIGA to 24453 on your mobile phone and start engaging free.
Read about other category winners of the GenU Youth Challenge from the Generation Unlimited website
