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    How Otto Orondaam helps students make the grade

    Jul 06, 2021 4 minutes

    It was one of the few times Otto Orondaam was ever tempted to quit.

    The year was 2012 and Mr. Orondaam’s passion project, Slum2School, was off to a bumpy start. Here in Makoko, a low-income neighborhood on the Lagos Lagoon, many fishing families need children to stay home and help with their trade. His brand-new nonprofit aimed to get those kids into school, and for weeks, he’d planned an event, hounding a medical company for mosquito nets to hand out as an incentive.

    But just minutes before, the company called – it could not deliver the nets.

    “I cried horribly,” the young reformer recalls, laughing, sitting in a well-lit office and sporting a deep-blue turtleneck. “The parents were waiting and this was going

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