(30 Aug 2025)
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Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria – 24 July 2025
1. Wide of Islamic school students playing football
2. Mid of students in class
3. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Ramatu Usman, 18, Out of school student: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4++
“When I was asked to go home, I felt very bad. I went home and sat down confused. My parents cannot afford school fees somewhere else, because we do not have the funds.”
4. Wide of Ramatu and her mother entering the school premises
5. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Ramatu Usman, 18, Out of school student: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 6, 7, 8++
“The time I used to go to school, I was always happy because I was learning a lot, but now I sit at home just sewing prayer hats. No one at home to speak to, because they all go to school. I am always home alone and not happy.”
6. Various of Ramatu in her former classroom
7. Mid of students in Islamic school
8. Ramatu and her mother leaving the school
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Israel Peter, 14, Out of school child: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 10, 11, 12++
"Now, I’m always going to the farm and doing house chores. When I see some students wearing uniform and going to school, I feel sad; I wish like I’m one of them."
10. Mid of school students leaving the school
11. Mid of students in the school premises
12. Mid of students in a classroom
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Suleiman Aliyu Abdullahi, Director, Future Prowess Islamic Foundation Schools: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 14, 15, 16++
"Without proper funding, these students that were enrolled in the school maybe possibly they could have been roaming the streets, and only God knows where they will end up, with the insurgency that we have."
14. Mid of students in a classroom
15. Mid of students studying
16. Various of students in the school premises
STORYLINE:
Israel Peter was 6 years old when Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria and his family fled. Eight years later, he still hasn’t returned to school.
A rare opportunity to change that disappeared this year, when a nonprofit offering free education to Boko Haram victims rejected Peter’s application.
It cited the abrupt loss of U.S. funding as the Trump administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development. Multiple backers of the school had received USAID funding.
"When I see some students wearing uniform and going to school, I feel sad; I wish like I’m one of them,” said Peter, who dreams of being an engineer.
He spends his days helping out at his father’s small farm. They cannot afford to pay school fees.
The school run by the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation has benefited 3,000 children in Borno state, the epicenter of the 16-year conflict with Boko Haram that has displaced and orphaned many.
Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic law in the region, forbids Western education and rose to global prominence after its mass abductions of students.
The Associated Press visited the region to document how funding cuts by the U.S., Nigeria’s once biggest donor, have affected civilians in one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
More than 35,000 people have been killed and 2.6 million others displaced in parts of Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
With U.S. funding gone, the school has let go of 700 of its 2,200 students as well as 20 teachers, officials said, with no new enrollment and further cuts likely.
Millions of people in the region have relied heavily on aid groups and foreign partners to survive.
That’s short of the 15% to 20% global benchmark recommended by UNESCO.
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