The Destiny Trust, a foremost child well-being foundation in Nigeria, has launched a new Multimedia Learning Space in Lagos.

The Learning space, located at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Arapagi, Ibeju-Lekki Local Council Development Area, was launched on June 20.

Athina Jeje, the foundation’s chief operating officer, said the learning space was set up so that disadvantaged children in rural communities could have access to quality education.

“Setting up multimedia learning spaces in hard-to-reach communities is a vital part of our mission to provide quality education to children everywhere,” the statement reads in part.

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“Our multimedia learning spaces offer both online and offline access to digital learning content, along with solar electricity to ensure a stable and renewable power source.

“Each space is equipped with smart TVs or smart boards, learning tablets, high-speed internet, and access to a vast digital library available offline, making learning more effective, interactive, engaging and accessible.

“Our broad education technology initiative promises to revolutionise learning for underserved children and their teachers. Additionally, teachers will receive intensive training on using technology in the classroom and maintaining the multimedia devices.”

Jeje also described the multimedia space as one of the foundation’s additional interventions aimed at combatting a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 2022 finding which claimed that 70 percent of children in Nigerian schools are unable read or write by age 10.

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Speaking with FIJ, Abimbola Ojenike, the co-founder of The Destiny Trust, said the space was designed to accommodate 25 children at once.

“The learning space was designed for 25 students per time to ensure effective interaction,” Ojenike told FIJ.

“The school has a population of about 275 children and we hope that all children at different times get the opportunity to use the space either for personalised learning or group class activities.”

Ojenike discussed the foundation’s plan to build more of such learning spaces in the future.

“Our plan is to build this in several locations within and outside Lagos. It makes offline access to digital learning resources possible,” said Ojenike.

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“We can’t educate all children solely by having teachers in the classroom.

“Technology helps to share standardised learning content, but someone needs to put the devices in the hands of children for accessing the contents and making the contents available through non-internet based channels. Someone also needs to provide internet access for them.”

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The Destiny Trust’s multimedia learning space has been designed to be a primary distribution channel for basic educational contents, and to achieve the foundation’s goal of educational empowerment via the use of technology.