• Scholarships to indigent but intelligent students

To foster quality education among indigent but intelligent students in Nsukka Diocese, JDPC Nsukka in collaboration with the Diocesan secretariat, Fr. Bishop awarded secondary school scholarships to ten (10) children in Ikem Deanery, precisely in Eha-Amufu. This is to enable the children to attend and progress in their basic education.

• Construction of 119 school desks for primary school children and 100 school lockers for secondary school students based on needs assessment:

Justice Development and Peace/Caritas Commission Nsukka in collaboration with the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN) in its concluded 4Gates OVC project, implemented a block grant project by constructing one hundred and nineteen (119) school desks for primary school students of two public primary schools in Uzo-Uwani L.G.A based on need assessment.

These two school block grants were implemented in Community primary school Nrobo and Community primary school Adani to ensure that the children acquire quality education in a conducive learning condition especially in a densely populated public schools. To contribute to addressing the challenges those schools are having, JDPC Nsukka constructed 48 school desks then handed them to the school management board of those primary schools.

New Lockers and primary school desks for a missionary school at Ohodo in Igbo-Etiti LGA

Also, seventy-one (71) school desks and hundred (100) school lockers were constructed and handed over to a new mission school at Ohodo in Igbo-Etiti LGA. This project was funded from Germany by a Priest in the country who attracted the project to his home community.

However, these school desk projects costs the organization the sum of four million, five hundred and eighty thousand (N4,580,000.00).

• Payment of WAEC fees of orphans and vulnerable children from poor families:

Due to economic strand in the country, JDPC Nsukka supported a one-off payment of Exam fees to fourteen (14) children who are most in dire need to register for WAEC, NECO, BECE and Common Entrance Examination respectively. These vulnerable children, by the organization’s assessment and validation finds out that they were at risk of throwing out of school due to financial constraint and their parents who managed to squeeze out water from the rock to ensure their children attend school, could not afford to pay their examination fees. The organization intervened and paid their examination fees to see them progress in education.

• Re-enrollment of out of school children back to school

To offer quality basic education to children from indigent families, JDPC Nsukka re-enrolled thirteen (13) out-of-school children back to school. These children are from families in deplorable conditions, and their parents could not pay their school fees. The organization also facilitated a one-off payment of thirty- three (33) students from poor and indigent families for their transition from primary school to secondary school.

• School-based Sensitization Campaign of Child Friendly, HIV/AIDS, Gender Sensitive and Safe Learning/environment:

JDPC Nsukka carried out sensitization in schools in both primary and secondary school to enlighten the children, and teachers on child friendly, HIV/AIDS, Gender sensitive and safe learning. This workshop was conducted by some professionals in HIV/AIDS and Gender norms to educate the school managements and some community stakeholders on the need to protect the children from being infected and affected by the virus; ensuring that the infected ones be enroll into a recognized facility for adherence

There were also adolescents focused HIV prevention, care, and support in some secondary school within Nsukka and Uzo-Uwani L.G.A respectively.