500 Pupils To Benefit From Heirs Energies, WLF Literacy Initiative

Heirs Energies Ltd. and the World Literacy Foundation (wlf), a planetary non-profit dedicated to eradicating illiteracy, person launched the Sun Books Literacy Initiative successful Rivers State, Nigeria, successful commemoration of World Literacy Day 2025.

The inaugural volition payment much than 500 pupils astatine Central State Primary School, Omuohia-Igwuruta, and Umuebulu Primary School, Umuebulu, located wrong Heirs Energies’ OML 17 big communities. Pupils volition person solar-powered Sun Books tablets, preloaded with culturally relevant, curriculum-aligned literacy contented and interactive learning modules. Solar panels volition besides beryllium installed successful the schools to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness for the devices and classrooms, creating sustainable entree to acquisition successful resource-limited environments.

Globally, much than 770 cardinal radical inactive deficiency basal literacy skills, with millions of African children facing barriers to acquisition daily. In Nigeria, UNESCO estimates that 1 successful 3 children cannot work oregon constitute astatine the expected level by property 10, with agrarian areas and girls astir severely affected.

The Sun Books programme is designed to code these structural gaps by providing offline-first integer learning tools that enactment successful low-infrastructure settings. Teachers successful participating schools volition besides person hands-on grooming to integrate integer literacy into schoolroom instruction, ensuring continuity of learning and stronger semipermanent outcomes.

Originally piloted successful Uganda, Sun Books has already reached implicit 17,000 children, trained much than 280 teachers, and supported implicit 48,000 families crossed Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.

CEO of Heirs Energies, Osa Igiehon reaffirmed the company’s semipermanent imaginativeness for assemblage empowerment:

“As an integrated vigor company, we cognize that renewable and sustainable vigor indispensable service a greater intent — gathering stronger, much resilient communities. Our concern successful literacy is an concern successful the adjacent procreation of leaders, innovators, and problem-solvers. This inaugural reflects our Africapitalism doctrine – creating societal bully portion delivering economical value. With Sun Books, we are empowering children to imagination beyond their circumstances and equipping teachers with tools to marque learning engaging and inclusive,” helium said.

CEO of the World Literacy Foundation, Andrew Kay underscored the planetary value of the collaboration:

“This concern with Heirs Energies demonstrates the powerfulness of cross-sector collaboration. By combining renewable vigor and integer learning, we are providing children with the accidental to learn, grow, and win – careless of geography oregon circumstance. Together, we are closing the literacy spread successful underserved communities and preparing the adjacent procreation for the integer economy,” helium said.

Adding the assemblage perspective, His Royal Majesty, Dr. Samuel Amaechi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, OML 17 Host Communities Development Trust (HCDT) Board of Trustees, said: “This inaugural shows what is imaginable erstwhile companies perceive to their big communities and enactment successful partnership. Education is the top bequest we tin springiness our children. With the Sun Books programme, our schools present person the tools to hole them for the future. We convey Heirs Energies and the World Literacy Foundation for investing successful our children and our communities’ semipermanent prosperity.”

The Sun Books Literacy Initiative is the launchpad for Heirs Energies’ Power Schools Initiative, which aims to deploy cleanable vigor and integer infrastructure crossed schools successful its big communities.

This milestone besides aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 4: Quality Education and SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy), reinforcing some organisations’ shared committedness to gathering inclusive, sustainable, and knowledge-driven societies.