The level of poverty, which is affecting all aspects of life including education is alarming, as described in my last [post]. Parents/guardians cannot afford to take care of the basic educational needs of their children/wards, due to many challenges mentioned in the introductory post of this project.
Why Edusteem Project?
My attention was drawn to students sitting on the floor to write from the board, when I visited Government Secondary School (GSS), Mararaba, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. I noticed too that more than 90% of them had no books or writting materials.This pain has given birth to the 'edusteem project', which aims to provide educational materials to the less priviedged in the society.
From my findings, the problem of the inability of people to afford good education is not perculiar with Nasarawa State alone but all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, though, some states are better off.
Our Vision
No child in Nigerian schools will lack key stationeries and facilities which promote life long learning.
The 'edusteem' logo
This logo was designed by dray91eu for 'edusteem.
Mission Statement
Edusteem is a not-for-profit organization, which provides educational materials to indigent students in Nigeria, build capacities of both students and their teachers that help promote lifelong learning, leveraging the steem block chain.
What we do 'edusteem project'
- We partner education.
- Help students achieve their dreams.
- Promote life long learning.
- Promote the steem blockchain.
- Empower to succeed in life.
CORE VALUES
- Transparency
- Diligence
- Trust
- Kindness
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
We aspire to reach five (5) million students in Nigeria, targetting about 0.85 million/geopolitical region.
Achievements So far
- A letter of intent to pay a visit to GSS, Mararaba was submitted.
The Head teacher (Pricincipal as we call them in Nigeria) has approved our letter. He said they are waiting to see us on the date we chose for the program.
- Payment of N40,000 (~140 USD/35SBDs) for the production of 300 steemit branded exercise books and a banner. This is the receipt of payment.
- We have paid for the design of a banner to create awareness of our visit to GSS, Mararaba, Nasarawa State.
- The branded steemit exercise books have also been designed.
See the first ever designed steem exercise books(first 300 copies produced).
300 copies of printed branded steem exercise books
Front view
Back view
Almost all is set for our program at GSS, Mararaba, slated to hold on Wednesday 28th February, 2018 at 12 noon (- 1 UTC) in the school hall.
Funds Realised As At 23/02/2018
- @maryfavour's donation of=10 SBD
- @charisma777 gave a donation of= 3SBD
- @stadex donated = 2SBD
- Liquid SBDs paid out from my 1st post of this project = )17. 257SBD
Total SBDs realised for the project so far = **32.257 SBD's out of 488 SBDs
Note Please: We paid for 4 T-shirts and to design Steem logo on it for N5800 (5. 8SBD), we paid for renting projector for N7000 (7SBD) and also paid for snacks and drinks for N15000 (15SBD). Total is 27. 8SBD. We spent 35SBD's for the production of 300 exercise books and with the purchase and printing of t-shirts and hirring of projector. We have spent a total of 62.8SBD's as against 32.257 realized for this project.
APPRECIATION
We would like to appreciate everyone who supported this project from inception with your upvotes, who resteemed our introductory post and those that sent us SBD's. @maryfavour sent us 10SBD's, @stadex sent 2SBD's and @charisma777. Also, we are grateful to ausbitbank, msp-curation, @officialfuzzy, @kubbyelizabeth, @lindahas, @techslut, @carlgnash, @redfishpillar, @sircork, @greenrun, @flipstar, @kottorinn, the Nigerian Steemit Community and many others. We are able to achieve all this because you all believed in us. We are grateful to you all. Cheers!!
Our Resolution and Call To Action
Execution of 'edusteem project' would be according to the value we realize on a weekly basis.
The meetup will also hold as planned. We would like to sieze this opportunity to invite all those resident in Mararaba, Nasarawa State to join us at GSS Mararaba. A live streem of parts of the Nasarawa meetup would be explored using dlive.io. Feel free to join us.
This project solely depend on our upvotes, supports and resteem to achieve it-. Please, help resteem this post so that we can actualize our objectives of meeting the academic
needs of these students.
Kindly upvote, resteem, comment and follow us @edusteem, @eugenecr7 and @maryfavour.
Thanks for visiting our blogs.
We remain your humble "steemit philantropists".
great initiative and great project. I hope it will help many poor people . really you are doing a great job . may god bless you. I will keep you in prayers.
The idea of this project is to help the poor. Someone ones said you choose to either be a solution to Nigeria's problems or part of the problem. We have chosen to be a solution no matter how slow it might look, we will get there. Edusteem is here stay @learner365
Mehn this is such a powerful project. I love this! Resteemed
Thanks a bunch, @eurogee. We appreciate the resteem and your support. It would help a great deal.
My dear how we go do, our aim is to help the poor and take our dear community (steemit) to a greater height @eurogee
I'm very excited about the work in progress, @eugenecr7. Good success is in sight and the vision of #edusteem project
would be actualized. Let's keep working.
@maryfavour & @redfishpillar.
Yes ma'am, you have been a great pillar to me. Its our idea, I remember some days ago when we spent over 12hours on this update post. This didn't just happen once. Thanks a lot @maryfavour
This is an interesting project. Thanks for the mention. I've shared this on Twitter. Good job.
@ greenrun, you re worth been mentioned for all your support. Cheers man!
Thank you.
Wow wow wow. This is a deal idea. Great work and project. God will crown your efforts. Resteemed
Amen dear! Thanks for the prayer @offoremmanuel
I totally support your initiative.
You can find me on discord, send me links of your upcoming works and general progress.
Wow! Thanks a bunch. I will do as you have said you will see update post of our meetup some ours from now. @cryptonfused
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O yeah! Just doing the little we can. Thanks a bunch