The Eden Project is an educational initiative in Lagos, Nigeria that aims to provide education to children ages 2-15 and illiterate adults living in the Dustbin Estate, a slum built on a dump site. The program seeks to provide 50 children and 20 adults with free basic education each year, empower students with arts and culture basics, and feed 100 children a balanced diet monthly. It will establish a learning center called the Eden Academy to hold classes three times a week for subjects like math, English, and basic health. The goal is to contribute to establishing a permanent learning culture and provide opportunities for adults to experience education.

2.  BASSEY UDUAK
RAHAEL
 AYORINDE FOLAJIMI

3.  AKANI OKACHI  ADENIRAN
ADEBOLA SANDRA

4.  The Eden Project is an educational based
initiative, designed with the aim of laying a
solid learning background for the kids within
the age bracket of (2-15 years) through a
“Fun-Learning” structure and amongst the
seemingly uneducated adults of The Dustbin
Estate in Awodiora, Ajeromi Ifelodun Local
Development Area, Lagos state to stimulate
the burning desire to consider basic
education and acquisition of skills a necessity
of life.

6.  To provide 50 kids and 20 adults with free basic
education every year
 To empower the enrolled students into our
academy with the basics of arts and culture
 To provide 100 kids in the community with a
balanced diet through our FTK initiative every
month.
VISION
 To raise role models amongst the kids and adults
of this community.

7.  To contribute to the establishment of a permanent outstanding learning
mechanism that ensures consistent development in the reading culture of
kids and adults
 To provide a platform for uneducated adults to experience the excitement in
being learned
 To facilitate effective partnerships with NGOs, educational consultants,
international facilitators to further strengthen the educational system in The
Dustbin Estate in Awodiora, Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Development Area,
Lagos state.
 To facilitate a process that increases the grow-have fun while learning
awareness through basic education.
 To share, ideas, experiences and innovative approaches for the effective
boosting and transformation of the educational sector in The Dustbin Estate
in Awodiora, Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Development Area, Lagos state.

8. Increased investment and resources on
education
Increased efforts to strengthen and boost
the learning culture of Awodiora, Ajeromi
Ifelodun Development Area, Lagos state.
Diversification and Acquisition of skills
Better appreciation of our culture.
Healthy eating habits

9. KEY DRIVERS
• The Eden Academy
The Eden Academy would be situated strategically in a
place where the kids and par can have fun while learning.
Classes would be every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Day Subjects Time
Monday Maths, English and Science 40 mins
each
Wednesday Craft and Basic Health Education 40 mins
each
Fridays Language 30 mins
Adult Education 1 hour

10. CRAFT
This is designed to equip them with basic
arts and culture trends through the team
and other youth volunteers.
BASIC HEALTH EDUCATION
This is one of our core areas, our goal is to
use this medium to inculcate in the minds
of the kids basic hygiene and practical
steps would certainly be taken.

11.  FEED THE KIDS INITIATIVE
This Is slated to hold once every month, with the
main aim of feeding 50 kids with noodles, 1 egg,
drinking water and a fruit.
 EXCURSION
 The best three students for every quarter gets to
visit an exciting part of Lagos with the team.
 REWARD AND RECOGNITION
 The most punctual student every month would get
a book and for the adults, the best in a year gets a
free IT training

13.  It is an estate of shanties built on the city’s
dump yard. Thousands of people now inhabit
the area. The area was a swamp and a food
plain. In the estate, inhabitants build shacks
erected with wooden planks, zinc roofing
sheets and polythene to protect the structure
from water. People rent the shanks for N500
to N600 per month. There are no toilet
facilities, the inhabitants defecate in the open,
pit toilets are used by high end residents.

14.  The Eden Team selected education amongst all social issues
listed fundamentally because imperatively every kid and
generation should have it’s roots in platforms that over values,
knowledge e.t.c
Most kids in this community attend informal schools owned
and operated by educated/semi-educated adults.
We believe that by grooming these kids in their forming years
to be educationally sound, the next generation’s hopes stands
a better chance of experiencing changes. The team together
with other youth volunteers would implement a dynamic
curriculum of fun and learning and over time would spread out
to other areas like Information Technology, Basic Recycling
processes and the likes as undeniably some of the wastes in
this area could be used again.

15. FINANCE-JIMI
MEDIA-KACHI
MARKETING-SANDRA
LOGISTICS-RACHAEL

16. SN ITEM COST QUANTITY TOTAL(N)
1 PENS(50 IN APACK) 700 2 1400
2 NOTEBOOKS 350 10 3500
3 BLACKBOARD AND
CHALK
5000 1 5000
4 MATHSET 150 50 7500
5 PACKING BAG 150 50 7500
24900

17. RENT A SHANK: N600 X 12MONTHS –
N7200
OR
ERECT A WOODEN STRUCTURE: N100K
-Wood
-Nails
-3 bags of cement
-Zinc shed
NOODLES (50 CARTONS) X 1300 - N65000
GRAND TOTAL N189,000

18.  TEACHERS: work together with organisations like Gleehd
Foundation, AIESEC e.t.c to partner with us in the course of a year to
consistently get passionate youth volunteers to assist.
 BOOKS: Work together with individuals, organisations and the local
government to provide the enrolled kids and adults with books
 SPONSORS: Work together with companies, multinationals to drive
the change we want to see
 OUR DREAM CENTRE: to ensure we work endless to erect a
permanent study centre to equip learning
 OUR MEMBERS: Our first graduands would be groomed to be our
ambassadors in the community.