According to a report by UNICEF(2022), 70 percent of children in Nigerian schools are in school but not learning. Globally, Nigeria also faces the biggest shortage of teachers, accounting for 12% of the global total. It is interesting to note that many of these challenges, including teacher capacity, are linked to public as opposed to private schools, and if not properly tackled, will put millions of Nigerian children at risk of poor quality of life in future. Following these widening disparities between the private  and public schools and its attendant effects on the access to education and proper education management, there is a need to pursue every legitimate and logical means to bridge this `lacuna. Furthermore, beyond the policy-cum-intellectual solutions to fixing these issues, and the advocacy currently in place to push for the enrollment of more out of school children in Nigeria, there is an obvious demand to look at other means (including recreation) to bring these rather nagging matters to the fore.

This event is in furtherance of the Organization’s vision and mandate to give qualitative and inclusive education access to indigent out-of-school children, whilst advocating for the same for all vulnerable children, this time through productive civic engagement and  recreational activities amongst children of different backgrounds and economic leanings.