In line with our Education and Training Focus area, Quality Education through Learning Centers in Africa (QETLA) program uses the establishment of fully functional learning resource centres as a medium to inculcate basic literacy, numeracy and ICT skills in children using diverse learning methods. ACE Charity hopes to establish more learning resource centres – one for each local government area- across the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria with expansion plans across Africa. So far, we have established 27 learning resource centres in Nigeria and manage five LRCs in public schools; three of which are in Abuja, one in Kaduna and one in Borno state.

Our LRCs create improved learning environments for learners and deliver flexible literacy and numeracy and ICT instructions that are responsive to the diverse learning needs and styles of learners, with a focus on children from deprived backgrounds who show limited literacy and numeracy and ICT abilities. To ensure maximum effectiveness of the project, ACE Charity employs full-time resource staff in these LRCs, all of whom undergo periodic training using guides from education experts. These trainings enable them to effectively deliver numeracy, literacy, and ICT instructions while considering the diverse learning needs, styles and capacity of the pupils who use the LRCs. Our flexible approach to delivering learning instructions ensures that irrespective of the learning pace of the children, the majority of them demonstrate some degree of improvement over time.

To monitor the children’s learning, ACE Charity conducts a base, mid and end-line assessment to determine the baseline level of literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills among pupils. The results of these assessments are key to the subsequent evaluation of the pupils’ capacity after a specific learning period. These results are also used to group children into different ability groups so that they can receive targeted instructional plans based on their learning abilities.

ACE Charity hopes to establish more LRCs in underserved communities for disadvantaged children to enable them to gain the essential educational foundation needed to thrive.

The ACE Charity Noble Club was established to develop exemplary citizens and instil moral values in primary school children. NOBLE stands for Notable, Outstanding, Bold, Leaders Extraordinaire. The Noble Club is an avenue for exposure, mentorship, and peer to peer learning that enables the acquisition of essential 21st-century skills. It aims to support, inspire, motivate, draw attention to and raise children of noble personalities. The beneficiaries are part of a practice-oriented learning process as they build their self-confidence and are empowered to reach their full potential. Children are engaged in interactive sessions with experts in various fields to broaden their horizon.

Each week, the children are taught one of these seven (7) selected topics: Leadership, National Identity, Communication, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Role Modelling through practical, interactive and creative sessions

The Learning safe space was set up after a community needs assessment conducted in Sokoto state revealed that there was no school in this particular community. It was established to provide a non-formal learning centre for Out-Of-School children aged between 6 – 11, who are taught basic literacy, numeracy, vocational and life skills by trained facilitators.

Due to the absence of formal learning, the children are taught the alphabets first with the aids of flashcards, cardboards, papers, and jolly phonics before learning about the letter sounds. Classes hold every Saturday and Sundays for two hours from 10:00 AM – 12 Noon.