Slum2School Africa has unveiled Nigeria’s first entirely eco-friendly Green Academy, a ground-breaking project designed to deliver quality education, clean water, electricity, and internet connectivity to a community long deprived of basic infrastructure.
For years, Saga, a riverine settlement on the Lagos lagoon, had no classrooms, electricity, or potable water. Parents who tried to send their children to schools across the lagoon often faced long, unsafe, and costly journeys.
That reality has now changed after Slum2School Africa, one of Africa’s leading education nonprofits, founded in 2012 by Orondaam Otto, fulfilled a decade-long commitment to provide the community with a permanent learning facility.
Speaking at the commissioning, Otto said the Academy represented the fulfilment of a vision long nurtured. “We always said the children of Saga deserved more than band-aid solutions. They deserved a school of their own,” he said.
The launch drew over 200 volunteers, teachers, and partners who sailed across the lagoon, alongside more than 400 community members, government officials, corporate partners, and traditional leaders who gathered to celebrate the landmark event.
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