(30 Aug 2025)
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Maiduguri, Borno State – 24 July 2025
1. Various of Islamic school students playing football
2. Various of students studying
3. Various of students in class
4. Various of Israel inside the school premises
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Israel Peter, Out of school child:
"I want to go to school because I want to help my family and to help my nations and my relatives. But they did not admit me to the school, and my parents cannot afford to pay school fees."
6. Various of students leaving the school premises
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Israel Peter, Out of school child:
"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."
8. Various of students in class
9. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Ramatu Usman, Out of school student:
“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.”
10. Various of Ramatu in her former classroom
11. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Ramatu Usman, Out of school student:
“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 have all gone to school. I am always home alone and not happy."
12. Various of students playing football
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Suleiman Aliyu Abdullahi, Director, Future Prowess Islamic Foundation Schools:
"When the school was established in 2007, we started with 36 pupils, but the school grew to 2,240 pupils and students in the school. But because of the cut in the funding, more especially with the USAID, the number of enrolments has to reduce from 2,240 to less than 1,500 pupils and students. We have 102 teachers in the school; now it has to be cut down to 82 staff in the school."
14. Various of students in class
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Suleiman Aliyu Abdullahi, Director, Future Prowess Islamic Foundation Schools:
"Without proper funding, these pupils and 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, they can be part of it. There are issues of stealing, there are issues of drug abuse, there are issues of smoking, and there are issues of so many bad habits. But with the establishment of the school and then with the number we have in the school, that goes a long way in reducing the number of children that are roaming the streets, and it also goes a long way in giving them the education that will build their future."
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.
“Now my future will not be great,” said Peter, who dreams of being an engineer.
His trembling voice was barely above a whisper.
He spends his days helping out at his father’s small farm.
They cannot afford to pay school fees.
Millions of people in the region have relied heavily on aid groups and foreign partners to survive.
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