The Nigerian government has received additional $4.2 million donations in support of the Safe Schools Initiative.
The donations were announced at the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday.
A donation of $1.5 million came in from Norway, one million from the African Development Bank (AfDB), $50,000 from the AfDB President and the British government donated one million pounds.
The council was also told that the German government was processing the sum of two million Euros towards the initiative.
The funds are in support of the Safe Schools Initiative that was birthed at the World Economic Summit on Africa held in Nigeria in May, weeks after over 200 girls were abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok, Borno State, by members of the Boko Haram sect.
The recent donations were announced to the council by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
President Jonathan kicked off the Safe Schools Initiative programme with a start-off fund of 3.2 billion Naira on June 17.
Half of the amount came from the private sector.
After a meeting on the initiative between President Jonathan, former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and governors from the three least educationally developed states in the north, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, told reporters that the fund would help ensure that children in schools in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States got educated in a safe environment.
Explaining the initiative and the fund to journalists, Dr Okonjo-Iweala said that Mr Gordon Brown, who was also an envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nation on children, was expected to also assist in raising some funds in addition to the benchmark set for the programme.
She said that a total of 100 million dollars was the targeted amount needed as take-off grant for the Safe Schools Initiative Programme by the Federal Government and the international community for Nigerian schools.
The former British Prime Minister has the backing of the United Nations and the international community on the project which will also take care of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram sect in April when they are released.
Mr Brown had been in talks with the United kingdom, Norway, the United States and the European Union to raise additional funds to help in the massive reconstruction work that is expected to kick-off.
The funds received by the Nigerian government are believed to be the outcome of Mr Browns talks with the countries and organisations.
The FEC also appealed to well meaning Nigerians and philanthropists from, in and outside the country, to continue to make contributions to the Safe Schools Initiative to show that Nigeria is not alone in the fight against insurgency.
