We are the KNOSK N100/25cents A-Day Charity Secondary School in Kuje Area Council of the FCT Abuja - Nigeria, established in 2019 to provide quality and skill-based education to ONLY children from poorest households and out of school kids in the community. For N100/25cents A-Day fees, less privileged students get books, uniform, sportswear, lunch, monthly sanitary pads for girls and computer based education!
While N100/25cents A Day fees does not cater for the children education, our model is to find sponsors to match and sponsor/co-sponsor a child's fees at N66,000 / $165 per term.
To ensure that students graduate from KNOSK with grades and trade-able skills with which to advance to the next phase of their lives, KNOSK School deploys Action Learn Model that emphasises deep learning, skills acquisition, technology, project based learning and character development.
We currently have 107 children and 28 teachers.
Our 2023 - 2025 Strategic Goal is to build our first KNOSK School building that can accomodate 400 learners and have 300 bed students hostel. The School facility will also comprise a functional vocational skills center, ICT Lab, innovation hub, library, clinic, sports field, multipurpose conference hall and teachers residence. The classrooms will be smart, connected and solar powered. The School will serve as a model center of excellence for lowcost schools.
We have secured our first land, a 7,900 square metres land and building of classrooms and hostels commences in 2023. Individuals and organisations are signing up to donate or build a classroom or hostel in their names as a legacy project.
In a country where 55% and 43% of girls drop out of secondary school and 75% of learners from low income communities struggle to read and write, we have found innovative ways of dealing with these challenges, as we have recorded Zero drop out since inception and learning among students is high.
Long term - we hope to replicate and scale our model to reach millions of children from low income communities and push for reforms in the secondary school education sector in Nigeria.
Watch a 2 minutes video documentary about our work by Reuters News International via this link
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/25-cents-day-poor-nigerians-get-shot-science-education-2022-03-22/