In Boko Haram's birthplace, USAID cut threatens a school for its victims
With U.S. funding gone, the school has let go of 700 of its 2,200 students as well as 20 teachers, officials said, with no new enrollment and further cuts likely.
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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,
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