Message from the founder

Abdullahi Idris

BookMySchool Initiative is a Non Profit organization which has been set up with the aim of improving the quality of education and learning in our secondary schools. This will be done by ensuring that schools are empowered through the provision of textbooks to support teaching and learning.

The importance of textbooks in schools cannot be over emphasized because they play an important part in the instruction process. They contain detailed materials on current topics and are designed to facilitate language development and knowledge acquisition. Pupil’s access to textbooks is an important factor in ascertaining what and how much they learn. In many developing countries, the availability and access to textbooks and other learning materials is severely Limited.

When we started in 2013, we did not see the impact from this perspective. Today, we realize that something as small as giving a textbook to a student can evolve into something greater than anybody anticipated and also has the potential to be identified with by all and sundry. Read More