2015
ERC FREE HOLIDAY COACHING
Appeal
for Donations and other Forms of Support
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) annual Free
Holiday Coaching is here again. The commencement date for this year's edition
is August 4, 2015. We appeal to members of the public to render whatever
support possible to this year's edition of the project. Cash donations and
material supports in form of books, writing materials, food and drinks are
welcomed.
The Free Holiday Coaching is an annual project
of the ERC to enable poor and indigent secondary school students (from SS1 to
SS3) who may not be able to afford the cost of private coaching to be able to
receive free but quality teaching during this summer holiday. As everyone
knows, teaching condition in public schools is so bad that students need extra
classes during the holiday especially if they are preparing for external
examinations.
Through this project, we also help to highlight
government criminal neglect of the education needs of the poorest of the poor
living in disadvantaged communities. Our belief in the ERC remains that until
government deploys the vast resources of the country, which is otherwise
looted, to invest in public education up to the point of provision of free and
quality education at all levels, our education sector will continue to be the
exclusive preserve of the rich few. This is why together with the free holiday
coaching, the ERC is active in the advocacy and struggle for funding of public
education.
Since 2005 and at an average of 300 annually, the
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has provided teaching free of charge to over
3000 secondary school students in Ajegunle community of Lagos State. Many of
the beneficiaries are now graduates and in many tertiary institutions across
the country.
We could not have achieved this feat without
the incredible sacrifices and contributions of our team of volunteer teachers
(most of whom are fellow youth with hearts large enough to render their service
free of charge). Also crucial to the success of this project is the support of
the public as well as organisations like ActionAid Nigeria, media and
individuals too numerous to name. This same support and more would be needed
for the success of the project this year.
The economic crisis ravaging the country has adversely
impacted on low-income and vulnerable families who are the targets of this
project. The consequence of this crisis is that poor parents more often than
before now have to make a choice between their children's education and how to
stretch the family's tiny income to cover food needs for the month. We
therefore expect a far larger turnout of indigent students this year.
For this, we are assembling a bigger team of
volunteer teachers who can take various subjects. If there are more resources
this year, we would like to introduce computer training which has been a dream
for years now. Given the conversion of the Universal Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) to Computer Based Test (CBT), our ability to provide
training in computer would be of invaluable help to the students. Therefore,
the support of the public in whatever way possible is urgently needed.
Once again we will like to thank all those who
have supported us in any way in the past including all those who have visited
the coaching to speak at the Friday Career and Counselling Talk or just to see
at first sight what we are doing on the ground.
From the ERC team and on behalf of the
Volunteer Teachers - Our heroes, we say "THANK YOU!"
For further enquiry, please call 07033697259 or
send a message to edurightsforall@yahoo.co.uk
Read below the reports of some of the past
editions of the Coaching
2006 ERC: Ajegunle Chapter Holds Free Coaching Classes
2012 ERC Free Summer Coaching Ends withSymposium
2013 ERC Rounds Off Free Holiday Coaching
2014 ERC COACHING CLOSING
H.T
Soweto
National
Coordinator
Education
Rights Campaign (ERC)
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