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BESDA To Enroll Thousands Out Of School Children Back To School

Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto

Executive Chairman State Universal Basic Education board Alhaji Altine Shehu kajiji made the clarion call today at the Mobilisation Campaign on the commencement of COHORT TWO of the Better Education Service Delivery for All BESDA in ILLELA local government.

According to him BESDA Project which was a collaboration between SUBEB,UBEC and World Bank was initiated to mitigate the problems of high rate of Out of School Children roaming the streets.

Public Relations Officer of the Board,Abbas Tukur Sanyinna said Kajiji explained that this year 2022 BESDA intended to enroll two hundred and five thousand Out of School Children using Non Formal Learning Centers NFLCs across all the nook and cranny of the state.

The sole aim he said was to ensure that such children would be thought on how to read and write as well as on numeracy right in their Non Formal Schools.

Alhaji Altine said the process of recruiting the facilitators to teach in the centers has already begun with a view to employing qualified teachers for the success of the project.

In a remark the state lead Besda Alhaji Ummaru M Yabo said during the second year of the project,proprietors of islamiyya schools to be use in Non Formal Learning Centers would be given ten thousand naira as monthly allowances while the allowances of facilitators was reviewed from ten thousand to fifteen thousand naira.

He said a total of four thousand one hundred Non Formal Learning Centers are to be establish across the state with fifty thousand pupils in each center plus 76 post literacy and skills acquisition centers.

Other speakers at the enlightenment campaign included Chairman House of Assembly Committee on Education Alhaji Buhari Haliru Yarima and Vice Chairman of the area Nasiru Magaji Gidan Hamma

It was witnessed by all the Permanent Members,Permanent Secretary Alhaji Ahmad Rufa’i Ibrahim,some Directors and Deputy Directors of the board.

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