Cylin teaches young Nigerians how the climate crisis works in their city, their market, their classroom. Then we train the best of them to teach everyone else.
Get InvolvedNigeria put almost none of the carbon in the atmosphere. It still ranks among the world's most climate-vulnerable countries. Inside Nigeria, the pattern repeats. The people with the least money, infrastructure and political voice absorb the most damage. That is not geography. That is a distribution of consequences, and it can be contested.
In waterfront communities like Makoko and Ajegunle, one night of heavy rain can wipe out a trader's entire stock. No insurance. No payout. No recovery fund. The households least able to absorb a flood live closest to it.
Lagos classrooms hold 50, 60, 70 students under zinc roofs with no cooling. Heatwaves are getting longer and hotter. Concentration collapses, then attendance follows. Extreme heat is quietly taxing the generation that has to solve this.
When rains fail in the north, prices spike in Lagos markets within weeks. Food inflation passed 40% in 2024. For a family spending most of its income on food, climate change is not a forecast. It is the price of rice, garri and tomatoes this week.
Sources on request. Every figure we teach is cited, dated and localized.
Climate literacy built on Nigerian data: Lagos flood records, temperature trends, food prices. Free forever. Every claim traceable to a source you can check.
Top course completers train as Cylin Ambassadors. They learn to teach, facilitate and organize. Every teacher we deploy first proved they know the material.
Ambassadors run workshops in Lagos schools and community halls. Peer to peer, in the languages and examples that land. No parachuted-in experts.
A termly competition that pulls new students into the courses and puts the best on a public stage. Winners feed back into ambassador training. The loop turns again.
Every stage recruits for the next. The courses find the talent. The training sharpens it. The workshops multiply it. The Climate Challenge makes it visible, and that brings in the next cohort.
And everything we build is open source. The curriculum, the workshop guides, the assessment tools. Any city can run this loop.
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Term 1 target: 25
Course completers certified to teach
Term 1 target: 1,000
Workshop attendees, deduplicated
Term 1 target: 5
Lagos schools with an active partnership
Term 1 target: 30%
Pre/post assessment, same-term cohorts
These counters read zero because we have not launched. That is the point. We publish our definitions before our numbers, so when the numbers appear you will know exactly what they mean. A network that teaches data literacy has to survive its own standards.
Nigerian Edition. What is warming, why, and what it does to Lagos: sea level, rainfall, heat. No polar bears. Your city is the case study.
View outlineFlood maps, temperature records, food price indices. Learn to read them and question them. Catch a misleading chart before it catches you.
View outlineWho emitted, who pays, and who decides. The history and politics of a crisis that arrived in Lagos from somewhere else. What a fair response looks like.
View outlineThe capstone. Pick a real problem on your street or in your school: drainage, heat, waste. Design an intervention. The best projects get workshop time.
View outlineAny student in a partner school. Or anyone in Nigeria who completes the core courses. No fees. No gatekeeping. One route in: learn the material.
Not trivia. Contestants read real flood and temperature data, argue a climate justice case, and pitch a local intervention. It rewards the skills the crisis actually demands.
Competition is our distribution strategy. Every term, the Climate Challenge pulls a new wave of students into the courses. It puts the sharpest young climate minds in Lagos on a public stage. Top scorers fast-track into ambassador training.
Three rounds · One term · Winners announced publicly, every time
Finish the core courses. Top your cohort. Train to teach. You get facilitation skills, a public platform and a network. Your community gets someone who can explain the crisis in their own language.
Start the coursesHost workshops. Enter your students in the Climate Challenge. Get a term-by-term picture of what they've learned. Zero cost to the school. We bring the curriculum, the ambassadors and the data.
Bring Cylin to your schoolYouth-led, Lagos-rooted, cheap to scale. The expensive part is already free. Your funding trains ambassadors and opens schools. Every naira maps to a metric we publish termly.
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