13 November 2024

American Tower (ATC) and ProFuturo, a digital education programme promoted by the Telefonica Foundation and Spanish not-for-profit banking foundation la Caixa Foundation, have announced the expansion of their alliance to Nigeria to foster digital inclusion in schools in Africa.

After a successful roll-out in Kenya, the expansion of the programme to Nigeria aims to continue transforming children’s education through technology with the global objective of reducing the educational gap. This global agreement between ATC and ProFuturo aims to support underserved communities by implementing social programmes that enhance quality of life and promote equitable access to the digital world.

With this expansion to Nigeria, the collaboration is set to positively impact nearly 30,000 children from vulnerable communities in Kenya, Nigeria and parts of Latin America by providing quality digital education through innovative educational projects supported by technology. This project not only covers the education to be received by the students but also the training to be delivered to more than 1,000 teachers who will facilitate the roll-out of the training to children in Africa and Latin America.

“Education with technology has enormous potential to help reduce the educational gap, thanks to its reach and capacity for inclusion, bringing high-quality content to the most difficult environments, which would be very difficult to access in any other way,” said Magdalena Brier, Managing Director of ProFuturo.