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Children Reading for a Change initiative (CRCi) is an active non-governmental (NGO) and non-for-profit organization duly registered with the NIgerian Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2018, to provide literacy and developmental support to Children between the ages of 5-13 years. We focus on children from low income earning families and communities, most of whom attend the public schools located in their neighbourhood. Our vision and fundamental drive as an organization is to narrow the wide gap that exists in educational standards between the private and public schools at the primary and junior secondary school levels in Nigeria through our active participation and involvement in equipping these kids to take their opportunities in becoming well meaning members of the society in the near future.


We create awareness of the need to have sound education, and most importantly we showcase the need to cultivate good reading habits through our well attended campaigns (titled Open Book) in targeted communities and public schools. We also engage these children in their respective primary and Junior secondary schools during the week to have touchpoints.

We have reached out to over 2,500 children, their parents, teachers and community leaders through our thrilling OPEN-BOOK campaigns organized in communities such as Gbara, Ajiran, Ikota, Itedo and Igboefun in Lagos state, Nigeria. We have sustainably established our presence in the primary and junior secondary schools situated in these communities through weekly engagements facilitated by our paid employees and volunteers. 

We donate CRCi branded notebooks, mathematical sets, writing materials, high quality print story books and other learning materials to the children in the schools and communities to support the children. In addition, we have donated school recommended story books to equip some libraries to enrich the reading experience.

We inspire the children to inculcate good reading habits through our book clubs facilitated by paid and volunteer resource persons during our weekly touchpoint engagements. Our frequent visits to the adopted schools helps us to be more consistent with our effort and also enable us to monitor the performance of the children closely. We also utilize the opportunity of our weekly presence in the schools to collaborate with the teachers and heads of schools to identify immediate and long term needs of the schools requiring urgent attention.
We recently collaborated with employees from one one of the major multinational oil and gas companies, Chevron NIgeria Limited to leverage their employee volunteer program (EVP) to raise funds for the procurement of computers and workstations used to set up a computer lab for one of the primary schools.

In addition to our literacy programs, we also provide resources and facilitators that teach basic computer concepts and hands-on training to equip the children for the 21st  century  as their privileged counterparts in the private schools.

We encourage well meaning individuals and corporations globally to join us in our drive to reach over  five (5) thousand more children in the next three (3) years through partnerships, generous donations, volunteering, advocacies and recommendations.