[1] Wisdom International School of Excellence Abuja, Nigeria Named In Top 10 Shortlists For World’s Best School Prizes 2024

Wisdom International School of Excellence (WISE), Abuja has been named in the Top 10 shortlists for the World’s Best School Prizes 2024. They are the only school named from Nigeria and West Africa. WISE is competing against other Schools in the UK, US, Europe, South Africa and East Africa.

Wisdom International School of Excellence (WISE), a primary and secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria, which has tackled the health crisis of open defecation, water, sanitation and hygiene has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Overcoming Adversity.

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[2] WISE SHOWCASE PLAN TO END OPEN DEFECATION AND CHILD MORTALITY IN TUDUNWADA COMMUNITY, LUGBE, FCT, ABUJA.

Wisdom International School of Excellence (WISE), Tudunwada was the only Abuja Based School selected for the 2018 BEYOND SCHOOL COMMUNITY CHALLENGE (BSCC) organized by the Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Association of Nigeria (MWFAAN) for all secondary schools in Nigeria. The three months selection process was rigorous and very competitive. WISE was finally selected to develop a community intervention to solve problems in the school-community.

Three problems were initially identified but open defecation was finally selected as the main problem leading to child mortality and associated problems in Tudunwada community. Tudunwada is an urban slum and shanty with over 30,000 people with majority living below the poverty line. Three students were selected to be the project manager to be mentored by a teacher in the school.

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