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Stopping Genocide.
Rescuing the Next Generation
Displaced youth in Nigeria face a 60% risk of radicalization. We interrupt that cycle with faith, education, and hope — equipping them for a future free from violence and death.
Academies opened 2020 · Free education and feeding every school day · Abuja, Nigeria
Africa Arise USA / Arise Academies is a division of MikeArnold.org Mike Arnold Ministries, est. 2005
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How it Started
In 2019, founder Mike Arnold stumbled into a displacement camp in Nigeria’s capital city — filled with survivors of a massacre 500 miles away. They had nothing. No water, no food, no medicine, no shelter.
He met a school principal who had lost everything. When he asked how he could help, she didn’t ask for food or water.
She said: “Help me teach these children. With an education they will have the strength to resist the recruiters. They will have a vision and a path out of here.”
Her name is Ms. Hanatu. That conversation started Arise Academies.
These are children who have survived extreme persecution and now require education, identity, and hope.
These are children who have survived extreme persecution and now require education, identity, and hope.
WHAT WE DO - FOUR MISSION PILLARS
Educate Displaced Children
Arise Academies provide safe, full-time education inside IDP camps.
Raise Global Awareness
Advocate for Justice
Mobilize Partner Engagement
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The Reality We Confront
A genocide denied by global powers. Camps the government won’t acknowledge. Youth marked for destruction unless the Church acts. Since 2019, Africa Arise has been on the ground, rescuing, rebuilding, and refusing to look away.
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Our Documentary Film: Me & Ms. Hanatu
A teacher. A promise. A genocide the world tried to ignore.
Filmed over five years in Nigeria’s conflict zones, Me & Ms. Hanatu is our upcoming feature documentary exposing the truth about mass displacement and the hope rising in its aftermath.
Enlighten Your Church
Mike Arnold brings a message that is eye-opening, edifying, and energizing. From Sunday services to conferences, he awakens believers to the global mission of Christ — connecting the persecuted Church to the comfortable Church with clarity and urgency.
Africa Arise USA is a division of Mike Arnold Ministries a 501c3 non-profit public charity. Our Federal EIN is 37-1497591
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