Our Lady’s (K-Dere)

4° 39’ 43” N  7° 16’ 30” E

Sign for Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in K-Dere. Our Lady’s is an extension of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Bodo whose nursery and primary school we have been helping since 2015. We started helping Our Lady’s in 2018.
Scott Pegg having fun with a big group of students at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School on July 7, 2025.
All the Our Lady’s kids that could fit in the photo during our December 2022 health program visit.
One of the classrooms at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School, June 2018.
The rented facilities that Our Lady’s is currently using for its classrooms. We hope to get them into a more permanent classroom building soon.
Another classroom at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in K-Dere.
Members of our health team meeting with the teachers and staff at Our Lady’s before our first health program visit to their school in January 2019.
One of our health team nurses explaining what deworming treatment is and why we are doing it to students in one of the classrooms at Our’s Lady.
Administering a tetanus shot to a student at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in January 2019.
Another tetanus shot for one of the students at Our Lady’s in K-Dere, RIvers State, Nigeria.
The land we hope to secure for a permanent home for Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in K-Dere.
Dr. Nabie, Father Stephen Amadi from St. Patrick’s Church and local K-Dere residents and officials discussing the possibility of this land being used as a permanent home for Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in K-Dere, November 2019.
On June 8, 2020, we brought our socially distanced nutrition program feedings to Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in K-Dere for the first time.
The children shown here at Our Lady’s are eating Ogi Soy Plus (soybeans, crayfish millet) in its powdered form with jollof rice and meat.
Super cute photo from our socially distanced nutrition program feeding at Our Lady’s on July 20, 2020.
Socially distanced feeding at Our Lady’s on July 20, 2020. During our first five visits to Our Lady’s, we averaged feeding 53.6 students per visit.
In 2025, we averaged feeding about 150 students per week at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School.
Scott Pegg serving food to students at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School on July 7, 2025.
Scott Pegg eating with primary 6 students at Our Lady’s on July 7, 2025.
A girl student eating Ogi Soy Plus and bean cake on October 5, 2020.
Providing deworming treatment to children at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School in December 2020.