Our Approach

How we will understand the environments children live and learn in across six communities in Kwara State.

What Makes This Different?

This is not simply an environmental awareness campaign. It is an attempt to understand how place shapes a child’s environmental experience.

Instead of asking only

“Is this environment clean?”

we ask

“What is a child experiencing in this environment every day?”

The initiative will give children a voice while bringing together schools, communities, professionals, researchers and government to identify practical responses.

How We Will Do It

Choose the schools

Selection of participating public schools across the six LGAs.

Assess the surroundings

Environmental assessment of school surroundings and relevant community conditions.

Listen to children

Listening to children about the environments they experience every day.

Engage teachers and administrators

Engagement with teachers and school administrators.

Engage the community

Community engagement with parents, community leaders and other relevant stakeholders.

Bring in expert input

Professional and academic input to strengthen the assessment and interpretation of findings.

Compare the findings

Comparison of findings across urban, peri-urban, commercial and rural settings.

Plan practical action

Development of practical Environmental Health Action Plans for participating schools and communities.

Expected Outputs
  • Environmental assessments from participating communities and schools
  • Documentation of children’s environmental experiences and perspectives
  • Comparative findings across the six LGAs
  • School and community Environmental Health Action Plans
  • A consolidated Environmental Health of a Child: Kwara State Report
  • Policy recommendations for relevant government institutions
  • A framework that can be adapted for other communities and states
The Bigger Question

The project is ultimately about more than the environment. It is about the conditions in which children grow up.

If two children live in the same state but experience very different environmental conditions simply because of where they live, what does that tell us about environmental inequality, public health and our responsibility to children?

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