Nigeria: School fees for plastic waste
Although education is a fundamental human right, it’s often out of reach for women, girls, and people living in low-income communities. The Recycles Pay Educational project in Lagos, Nigeria, ensures that children from these communities remain in school while promoting plastic recycling. The initiative allows parents or guardians to pay their ward’s school fees using plastic bottles and cans.
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00:16 Recycles Pay educational project, it started in 2019.
00:22 And the motivation is very, very simple.
00:25 We don't want kids to go out of school
00:28 because they cannot afford to pay their school fees,
00:31 which eventually means that they will lack access to basic education.
00:36 So we thought of a solution that can help reduce the total number of out-of-school children
00:42 and also give them access to quality education.
00:45 [Music]
00:57 This clean-up, the African clean-up initiative,
01:02 they don't make the paying of my daughter's school fees that easy for me.
01:08 I take it seriously because it helps me very well.
01:14 It helps me very well.
01:16 They say it's not that easy to pay my daughter's school fees.
01:21 [Music]
01:37 (upbeat music)