The entire community primary schools in Abia state Nigeria serves over 1 million students in primary and secondary schools. A severe shortage of classrooms and school furniture means that these students have studied for years in discomfort—on dirt floors or even on the ground outside under shade trees.
The beginning of Abia K.I.N.D project; ‘Kids-In-Need of-Desk’ will eventually deliver 46,000 desks to schools across Abia communities. The project will give tens of thousands of kids, the opportunity to sit at a desk for sometimes in schools; there has been high rate of failure in examinations both internal and external by the primary school pupils in Abia State. Many education stakeholders are not happy. Some even blamed the teachers for the failure of pupils to excel in examinations. To save the primary education from total collapse, the Federal Government set up a nation-wide retraining workshop for overall professional development of all primary school teachers in the country.
But, the Federal Government did not provide the less common physical facilities desks and classrooms, which constitutes partly as conducive-environment for early-child development. This is in a bid to achieve universal primary education which is one of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. This nationwide teacher development workshop has given the teachers opportunity to gain both subject matter knowledge and pedagogical skills. On coming back to their schools, they are expected to put into practice what they learnt. One the things that would help them impart knowledge to the pupils are physical facilities, obviously that is lacking. On the other hand, while the government blames the teachers for not been committed to duty, the teachers blame the government for not providing the physical facilities that will help them impart knowledge to the pupils. Physical facilities are those facilities provided by the schools for the purpose of enhancing teaching and learning. It includes the classrooms, buildings, laboratories, laboratory equipment, the school furniture, the chalk board, tools and machines, audio and audio visual aids etc. The importance of physical facilities for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals cannot be overemphasized. They help to promote teaching and learning in schools. The availability of quality physical facilities in schools will attract the admiration of the members of the community.
THE PROJECT CONCEPT
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Design: A simple height adjustable combination -school desk and chair
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Vision: The school desk and chair project execution is local at various communities
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Manufactured locally in Nigeria :Standard Cost of Delivered to school is local
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Model (School desk and chair)
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Products:Double seat chairs,primary desk, school desk, chair for child
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Min.to communities 100:100 Set
