Education and Training Centre for physically challenged and able children and young people in Amokwe, Nigeria

In Nigeria persons with a special need for support are for the most part excluded from general social life in the society, and doomed to an inhuman existence. Children with a special physical need for support are almost always denied a formal education. Because they most often cannot contribute to the economic welfare of their families, they are considered and treated as a burden. Mothers bear the main responsibility for the care of their children with a special physical need for support, and they have virtually no outside help or support.

Amokwe Nigeria Association set itself the goal of financially supporting the establishment and maintenance of a Centre for the education and training of both children and young people with a special physical need for support and those without a special need for support in Amokwe. It desires to enable these young people gain access to opportunities and visions for their future. The infrastructure of the Centre currently includes:

  • a multipurpose building with rooms for:
  1. administration offices
  2. a classroom
  3. dormitory for pupils with a special physical need for support
  4. room for computer instruction
  5. business centre (internet café, typing, photocopy, lamination and binding)
  6. toilets and showers
  • Sports fields
  • arable space for agricultural use
  • an extension tract B02 (currently under construction)

 In the future the Centre expects to have:

  • Schooling, training and production area for children and youths with a special physical need for support and children and youth with no special need for support 
  • Multipurpose hall
  • Living area for young people with a special physical need for support
  • Dispensary/Physiotherapy area
  • Staff quarters
  • Sports fields
  • Gardens and orchards