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Education Access Initiative is an accelerated skills development program for out-of-school refugee children in Nigeria, including an offline ‘talking’ book and pen, to help children develop basic reading and mathematics skills in English and Hausa.

They are leveraging mother tongue language instruction, structural pedagogy, and assistive learning technologies to help out-of-school and refugee children access and attain foundational learning skills in an accelerated, engaging and creative way.

From piloting with 1,500 children in one refugee (IDP) camp in 2019, FastTrack has rapidly grown over the last four years. They are scaling to over 50,000 beneficiaries across ten refugee-hosting camps and communities and hope to reach 1,000,000 learners in Nigeria by 2030.

With millions of individual displaced learners spread across over 290 camps and camp-like settlements and 2,075 locations across northeast and north-central Nigeria, FastTrack is changing how they are learning to read, write and do basic arithmetic.