From the Field
Posts & reflections from our work in Nigeria
At the PTA meeting yesterday at Big Dam Primary School, we heard about the boy Bello Bello for the first time. He was twelve years old we were told and absolutely brilliant – undoubtedly the best student in the school. Both his uncle and the Head Teacher stood and complained to us that they we
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Recently several of you have received news reports of rampant killings of Nigerian farmers, (or Christians,) by Fulani herdsmen and have asked me for an explanation.
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Salihu is a polio survivor. We first met him in his camp in the Kogi State bush, where we were enrolling Fulani children to attend Hope Academy, Emiworo. Salihu was not in line for his picture, in fact, I caught him hiding in a little, nearby hut, just peeking out of the door from time to time to wa
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Returning to Nigeria in May 2015 after the kidnapping changed everything in our work among the Fulani people.
Read full postWith 600 children now in school and more to come, we'd like to invite you to help with this important project, an initiative bringing hope for a better future for the Fulani people.
Read full postAre YOU aware of the importance of SOUND in your child’s learning to read and write?
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Nelson Reed and Danny Scott, representatives of Action International Ministries, in Nigeria for a ten-day tour of the work of Schools for Africa, started out a little roughly in the Port Harcourt airport.
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This is so true! And time has never flown so fast as during these past, few days in Seattle, spent with family and friends.
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