In partnership with relevant MDAs and organizations including the Nigerian Prisons Service, National Emergency Management Agency, Ministry of Interior, International Organization for Mingration, Internationl Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, etc. and in keeping with our mission of reaching communities and populations underserved and unserved by the formal schools sector, this initiative focuses on educating, reorienting, empowering and reintegrating prison inmates, internally displaced persons and other special groups into society. We believe with proper guidance, orientation and training, such persons and groups can contribute better to society and to national development.

We will partner with organizations which share in our vision of human and national development, and which have scientifically developed an aptitude test, to matching talent and competency with the appropriate skill, subject, job or career.

The scheme therefore enables and inspires individuals and special groups to have a vision and hope for a better future. Such purpose and the assurance of acceptance back into society is an important factor in improving the individual’s sense of identity and responsibility.

We will achieve the above by focusing on and implementing the following:

• Focusing on secondary education (JSS 1 to SSS 3) of inmates, IDPs and special groups
• Integrating civic education and moral instruction
• Enrolment of inmates in JSCE, SSCE, NECO, UTME and other exams
• Setting up special exam centres within prison premises or close to IDP camps for better access
• Getting special invigilators and supervisors assigned to the centres
• Stocking prison/camp libraries with books, recorded TV shows, DVDs and other learning aids
• Assigning roles, grades, rewards and negotiating early release for those on probation.

The impact of the scheme would be enormous in sustaining education in communities affected by disaster, violence or extremism, reducing crime rate and rate of recidivism, making productive use of human capital for community and national development, promoting the acceptance and reintegration of inmates into their families and communities, and providing individuals and groups with special needs with opportunity for personal and academic advancement.