AFRICAN EDUCATION OUTREACH, INC

Our goal is to provide education to girls and other youths in and near Abakaliki who desire it but cannot afford it for financial reasons. In Nigeria, there are no free public education at all levels. Hence, many children whose parents cannot afford their tuition, end up on the street. Abakaliki is a farming community, unfortunately the soil is hardly productive due to overuse and abused. Our goal is to build a quality school that will teach the children of these farmers modern and mechanized farming which their parents do not have. This will save the soil and improve food production for a population that is growing very fast.
We believe we have received graciously and we must give graciously. Graduates from our school will be distinguished not by the background they come from, but by their zeal for academic excellence, character development, openness to new experiences, as well as by their aspiration to recognize and appreciate all of God's gifts and their readiness for a life of service.
The school we aim at building will be a coeducational school; when in full operation, the school will have a Nursery-Primary Section, a Secondary Section and the Sixth Form (Advance Level). The Primary School will include students from kindergarten to 6th grade, and the Secondary School will include students from 7th to 12th grade. The Sixth Form is a one year internship for students who want to specialize in any of the entrepreneur. This will equip them to start their own business. It will also offer a second chance to students who did not succeed in their university qualifying examination. At full capacity, the Secondary School will have a total of 900 students with an optional boarding facility for about 700 students. The Sixth Form will have room for only twenty students. The Nursery-Primary (K to 6th grade) will have a capacity of 500 students.

We plan to adopt means and ways to raise the capital to fund the goal of the organization. This will include but not limited to grant writing, fundraising activities, speaking to congregations at places of worship, at social clubs and at work places.
We have registered with South Carolina Association for Nonprofits and we are joining umbrella groups for nonprofit for capital campaign.
We are starting a mass mailing campaign.
We are setting up online solicitation and crowd funding.
We are working with financial advisors to set up endowment program.
We are investing in the local community to recruit and staff the new school.
We are using the media, we are publishing article about the organization in the local newspaper, campus newspapers and television. We have published fliers that we are distributing. We have Facebook account, board members are sharing the story on their personal Facebook and LinkedIn pages. We have a twitter account and personal Instagram accounts. We are using every means possible to get the word out to the community.

We have board members who have experience in Grant writing. We have also contracted the services of a grant writer
We have board members who have wealth of knowledge of the law and the legal system. Their enormous gift has prepared the organization to succeed and to be in compliance to the rules and regulation for nonprofit. We have set up rules and modalities for accountability and transparency.

We have received a donation of about ten acres of land in Abakaliki to build the school. The property has been surveyed and graded, We have constructed access road to the property and built a culvert bridge linking the farming community with the rest of their neighbor. We have conducted a geophysical survey of the land to determine a better source of aquifer and underground water since water is a major problem in this community. We have obtained architectural design of the school.

Water plays a major role in livelihood (healthcare, poverty and environment) hence its shortage is always a severe problem to mankind. Development of water resources is thus a major factor for economic growth as well as human and environmental health, and poverty reduction. We sank two bore-wells for the school and for the community around the school.
We plan to build the school in phases. We have completed the first six classrooms and have admitted and educating some sixty seven students in our school. That number is going to increase this academic year. We have accommodation for some sixty students, and fifteen staff members.
We build security/privacy wall around the school.