Category: Achievements

October, 2019 Six Makoko Dream School girls and five volunteers attended the She Thrives Africa event, along with Mr. Emmanuel Agunze, who served as emcee. The event was organized by the Mandela Washington Alumni Association of Nigeria (MWFAAN) and supported by the US Embassy and Consulate. For his role as part of the Organizing Committee […]

October, 2019 in The Makoko Dream who are part of the new 100 Children that joined The Makoko Dream School, were given free uniforms. This makes a total of 305 uniforms done for The Makoko Dream School on land (270 plus 35); and 425 in total (120 for the school on water, and 305 on […]

October, 2019 courtesy of The Makoko Dream. This makes the total number of uniforms done 455 (120 out of the 200 on The Makoko Dream School on Water, and 335 (305 plus 30) for The Makoko Dream School on land). The #Wearachildcampaign started in October 2017, a campaign to give the school children free uniforms […]

The third school bus canoe was completed, which will enable 15 more children to be transported to school, free of charge. The background behind the need for the more canoes is as follows.    When The Makoko Dream (TMD) did the first two school bus canoes for The Makoko Dream School 1 on water (The […]

Many volunteers, partners, and sponsors provided their time, love, support, and well wishes, in celebration of The Makoko Dream’s three years in existence.

The Makoko Dream was three years old on March 1, 2019.  A celebration was held on March 1st at The Makoko Dream School 1; Assemblies of Royalty, Makoko Waterside. An additional celebration was held on March 2nd at the Makoko Dream School2; The Makoko Dream Kingdom Royalty Academy at Makoko Landed Area.

Over 30 Makoko Dream School children got more Unique School Bags to help secure their textbooks and exercise books.  Support was provided by Team Amba, as part of their project, “Bags for Kids” in Makoko.

A female student at the Makoko Dream School 2 won a Chessboard game at the “Bags for Kids” outreach in Makoko, by defeating the other competitors.  Now, she has a chessboard to practice more, and teach her schoolmates as well.

In this present world of tablets, Ipads, laptops, etc., there were still about 1000 children that still used wooden slates in Makoko. They would come to school with their personal wooden tablet and write with chalk daily. When they were bored, they would grind the chalk into powder and make their faces up. The Makoko […]