00:00The abrupt end of USID has hampered educational growth for some of Boko Haram's victims in northeastern Nigeria.
00:08Some of the victims' families cannot afford to pay school fees that was being catered by USID in the previous years.
00:17In one school run by the Future Progress Islami Foundation has benefited over 3,000 children in Bono State, the epicenter of the 16-year conflict.
00:27I go to school because I want to help my family and to help my nations and my relative ones.
00:34But they do not admit to me to the school and my parents cannot afford to pay school fees.
00:40Now I am always going to the farm and doing house chores.
00:44When I see some students wearing uniform and going to school, I feel sad. I wish like I am one of them.
00:51Ramatu Usman is among the students dropped by the school this year, just one session before her high school exams.
00:58She had wanted to study medicine, but now she spends her days knitting cups for sale.
01:03The time I used to go to school, I was always happy because I was learning a lot.
01:09But now I sit at home just sewing prayer hats.
01:12No one at home to speak to because they have all gone to school.
01:16I am always home, alone and not happy.
01:18With the U.S. funding gone, the school has let go of 700 of its 2,200 students, as well as 20 teachers, with no new enrollment and further cuts likely.
01:31These pupils and students that were enrolled in the school, maybe possibly they could have been roaming the streets.
01:43And only God knows where they will end up.
01:45With the insurgency that we have, they can be part of it.
01:50There are issues of stealing.
01:52There are issues of drug abuse.
01:54There are issues of smoking.
01:57There are issues of so many bad habits.
01:59But with the establishment of the school and then with the number we have in the school,
02:05that goes a long way in reducing the number of street children that are roaming the streets.
02:10And it also goes a long way in giving them the education that will build their future.
02:19Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic law in the region for peace, western education,
02:25and rose to global prominence after its mass abductions of students,
02:29and such in the school,
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