A VSO project:
A dozen other students look on as Umar Amadu uses a glass pipette to draw a solution from a conical flask as part of a chemistry experiment.
It could be a scene from any school laboratory around the world, but until two months ago Amadu and his fellow students had no access to any science equipment.
Science subjects at his rural secondary school outside the city of Katsina in northern Nigeria were taught using theory only. But now they have all the kit they need to put theory into practice, thanks to a mobile science lab that tours selected state schools...[more]