Learn how you can sponsor school children in need
The Diocese of Ikot Ekpene is dedicated to education at all levels. The Diocesan Education Commission oversees numerous parish schools for children ages 3-10. The diocese also manages several secondary schools for youth ages 11-18 as well as a vocational school and college. Lastly, the diocese runs three seminaries that serve dioceses across Nigeria.
How You Can Help:
- Water well at a parish school—The schools within the Diocese of Ikot Ekpene are all without any running water. In fact, very few of them even have their own water well (called a “borehole”). The digging of a borehole on school grounds costs about $5,000 USD. Once a borehole is dug, a small water tower is erected so that there can be a continual source of water available to the school staff and children. When a school does not have its own borehole, school staff must daily walk to nearby boreholes and carry the water back to the school in buckets.
- Books and other educational materials
- Computers for schools
- Subsidization of a school teacher salary for a year