Northwest & Southwest Cameroon · 2022
We Go Sabi
Pidgin for “we will know.” Seven weeks that proved how fast displaced children can learn when teaching meets them at their level.
As Country Programme Manager of Street Child Cameroon, Kingsley led education-in-emergencies work across the Northwest and Southwest regions, where the Anglophone crisis had pushed thousands of families from their homes and children from their classrooms.
With local partner NADEV, he championed the We Go Sabi pilot, built on the Teaching at the Right Level approach he had first carried into Gwoza: group children by what they can read and count, not by their age, and teach from there. Thirteen teachers and headteachers were trained. Within seven weeks, 500 children, most of them internally displaced, had moved up at least one literacy and numeracy level.
Street2School
Alongside the pilot, he pioneered Street Child's Street2School project, a non-formal education programme that brought street children into learning by teaching in the language they actually spoke: Pidgin English.
“I am happy seeing how we are impacting the lives of children.”