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Whatever Happened To... The Millennials Who Started A School For Boko Haram Escapees?

The two young Nigerians have learned a lesson about teaching kids at a camp for displaced persons: Leave it to the experts!
Aweofeso Adebola (in white shirt) and Ifeoluwa Ayomide (in cap) pose with some of the kids in their education program in Abuja, Nigeria.

In July 2017, I wrote a story about two young Nigerians who quit their office jobs to start an informal school for kids in a camp for displaced people in Abuja, the country's capital. How's the project going?

A couple of years ago, Ifeoluwa Ayomide, 23, and Aweofeso Adebola, 24, started an informal school in a camp for displaced people in

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