Scholarships
Support that keeps capable children and young people in school when household finances would otherwise end their education.
Pillar 2 — Education
Education that opens doors and multiplies itself
We promote access to quality and inclusive education for children, youth and adults through scholarships, literacy initiatives, and teacher development programmes.
01 — The foundation of our work
Anchored by Barunde College
Our education pillar rests on Barunde College's 8 years of training infrastructure — its students, trainers, curriculum and research capacity. This is not an education programme assembled by grant writers; it is built on an institution that already trains people well.
That infrastructure lets us support learners directly through scholarships and literacy work, and also to strengthen the teaching itself through teacher development. One improves an individual; the other improves every classroom that teacher will ever stand in front of.
Training infrastructure
8 Yrs
through Barunde College
8 Yrs
Training infrastructure
Barunde College's students, trainers, curriculum and research capacity.
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Groups of learners
Children, youth and adults reached through literacy and scholarship work.
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Focus areas
Scholarships, literacy, teacher development and inclusive quality education.
02 — Focus areas
Where the education pillar delivers
Four areas of work that reach learners at different points — and lift the quality of learning for all of them.
Literacy Initiatives
Reading and writing programmes for children, youth and adults — because literacy is the doorway to every other kind of learning.
Teacher Development Programmes
Training and support for teachers — an investment that multiplies impact across classrooms rather than reaching individual learners alone.
Quality & Inclusive Education
Designing for the most marginalized first, so that gender, income and circumstance are never reasons a learner is left behind.
03 — Why it works
Impact that compounds
Education is the pillar where a single investment can keep paying out for years — if it is designed to multiply.
Teacher development multiplies impact
Improving one teacher raises the quality of learning for every learner in every class they teach — a return that compounds over a career. That is why teacher development sits at the heart of the pillar: it strengthens the system, not just the individual.
- One trained teacher lifts every classroom they will ever lead.
- Training is grounded in practice, not theory.
- The gain compounds across a teaching career.
Multiplier
1 → many
classrooms reached by every teacher trained
Barunde College supplies the engine
Trainers, curriculum and research capacity come from an established institution — so programmes are grounded in practice, not theory.
A renewable pipeline of talent
Every cohort trained becomes the teachers, health workers and administrators who sustain Cigari's work long after a funding cycle ends.
04 — Global alignment
Learning that lifts whole households
Quality education sits at the centre of our theory of change. It is how a healthy child becomes an empowered adult — and how one scholarship can change the trajectory of a family.
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Inclusive by design
We design for the most marginalized first, not last — so access is widened, not merely promised.
Grounded in an institution
Barunde College gives programmes the trainers, curriculum and evidence base they need to succeed.
Built to sustain itself
Teacher development and local talent keep the work running beyond any single grant.
Fund a scholarship. Train a teacher. Change a generation.
Your support widens access to quality, inclusive education for children, youth and adults across Northeast Nigeria.