aprendIA Nigeria: An AI-powered chatbot for Teachers

aprendIA is an AI-enabled WhatsApp chatbot for teachers–providing instant help for today's class and micro-courses for long-term skill building.

What aprendIA can help teachers with:

• Help for today's class. Large classroom or a tricky topic? Ask aprendIA any time and get practical ideas you can use in your very next lesson. Classroom management is our most-used support because it's the help teachers ask for most.
• Courses that build a teacher's career. Micro-courses you can finish in 5–15 minutes: Classroom Management, Teaching Literacy, Teaching Numeracy, Teacher Wellbeing, Safeguarding, and Active Learning. Practice a strategy, reflect, and move at your own pace.
• Made for your reality. Co-created with Nigerian teachers and government partners. Works on low-bandwidth with voice-to-text. Built for the real conditions of your classroom and aprendIA is fluent in English and Hausa.

Try aprendIA on WhatsApp

Click here to try out the aprendIA Nigeria chatbot.

aprendIA Nigeria by the numbers:

• 5,800 teachers are using aprendIA today
• 22,000+ teachers will have access in 2026
• 137,000 teachers and facilitators by 2028

In 2025 implementation research, 1 in 3 teachers used aprendIA weekly and half of those used it 3–4 times every week, reporting high satisfaction.

"aprendIA has transformed my teaching experience. My students are learning better, behaving better, and I am more empowered as a teacher." 

—Samuel, Teacher, Borno State

A teacher uses aprendIA to help teach a class in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Photo: Moses Timothy for the IRC

Why the Ministry of Education chooses aprendIA

• Co-created with the government. Through partnerships with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Ministry of Education, state actors shape the product from day one. Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States (BAY) have all committed to full roll-outs, with written commitments to scale.
• No hardware, minimal training. aprendIA runs on teachers' own phones over WhatsApp. There is nothing to procure.
• Costs fall as reach grows. Approximately $13 per teacher per year at scale. Open-source platform with local capacity building for long-term sustainability.
• Safe by design. Safeguarded AI with IRC specialists reviewing responses for quality, accuracy and safety, plus a dedicated safeguarding course equipping teachers to protect the whole child.
• Evidence-led. An independent impact evaluation launches in 2027, measuring effects on classroom practice and student learning outcomes in the BAY states.

Our partners

The International Rescue Committee is proud to partner with:

• Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria
• Ministry of Education, Borno State
• Adamawa State Government, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development
• Borno State Universal Basic Education Board
• Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board
• Yobe State Universal Basic Education Board

Partner with us and put aprendIA into the hands of your teachers.

Contact: Edward Ishaku, Education Coordinator, Nigeria, edward.ishaku@rescue.org 

For media inquiries, contact: Rinkat Oswald, Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, rinkat.oswald@rescue.org 

aprendIA is developed and operated by the Airbel Impact Lab, the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee. We design, test and scale life-changing products and services to solve the challenges people face in crisis-affected communities. 

To learn more about aprendIA Global, the technology, and other use cases, visit: aprendia.io.