The first Lantern stands on the founder’s family land in Ewossa.

Ewossa is a village in Edo State, Nigeria. Lantern 1 is under construction there: a classroom, a home for its facilitator, and its own power and connection.

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Lantern 1 isn’t raising funds. Gifts go to Lanterns 2 to 5.

Design of Lantern 1: the classroom container, the facilitator’s home above, the external stair and solar roofs, printed in laterite. — Design visualization of Lantern 1, printed in one ink, not a photograph of the site

The first Lantern goes home to Ewossa.

Omi spent much of his early years in Ewossa, and the first Lantern stands here, on his family’s land. A school that arrives on a truck and powers itself is meant for villages like this one, so this is where it starts.

Lantern 1 is the whole model in one place: a classroom, a home for the facilitator, its own power and its own connection. It is the first real test of everything we say about it.

“Basic education is meant to be free and a basic human right.”

Omi, founder

Design of the classroom inside: learning stations with screens along both walls, round stools, high barred windows and the doors at the far end. — Design visualization of the classroom inside, not a photograph

What Lantern 1 will bring Ewossa

24 learning stations, each child at their own pace
Maths, English and Coding, for ages 10 to 15
A facilitator living upstairs, on site every day
Power shared with one public building, a clinic if there is one
Free, filtered Wi-Fi for the village

Planned for Lantern 1.

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Here is what is done, what is happening now, and what comes before the doors open. Verified photographs and milestones will be shared as they are confirmed.

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A place to begin
Ewossa chosen for Lantern 1, on the founder’s family land.
Done.
The design
A 40-foot classroom with 24 stations, and a 20-foot home above it for the facilitator.
Done.

Under construction
Being built by a fabricator in Lagos.
Happening now.

Ready to open
Power, connection, cooling and safety checked before any child walks in.
Ahead.
Power for the village
Choosing the public building for the shared cable, with the village. A clinic comes first if there is one.
Ahead.
A facilitator moves in
A local adult, police-checked, living upstairs and keeping the doors open.
Ahead.
First lessons
Maths, English and Coding, for children aged 10 to 15.
Ahead.
Measure and publish
A reading and maths baseline, a second test at twelve months, and the results published, whatever they show.
Ahead.