Tag: Out-of-school girls

  • Adamawa: 1,451 Out of School girls been re-enrolled back to School

    Adamawa: 1,451 Out of School girls been re-enrolled back to School

    By Musa Isa Ahmed

    No fewer than 1,451 out-of-school girls in Adamawa State have been re-enrolled back to school by the African Center for Leadership Strategy and Development, (Center LSD).

    The Center was supported by Malala fund to run a three year project christened Community Led Action for Girl Child Education (C-CAGE) aimed at enrolling out-of-school girls back to school.

    Making the disclosure, Thursday, at a one day sub national summit on girl child education and premiere of the C-CAGE documentary in Yola, the executive director of Center LSD, Monday Osasah, said, the girls were drawn from the three focal local governments across the three senatorial zones of the state.

    The local governments are; Numan, Maiha and Song local governments.

    Osasah said 577 girls were enrolled back to school in Numan local government while 360 were enrolled back to school in Song LG just as 514 girls from Maiha local council were enrolled back to school.

    noted that a total of 25 safe space centres were established in the three local governments for the learning of basic numeracy and vocational skills respectively.

    Osasah added that the Centre with support from Malala Fund has opened registers of out-of-school children in the palaces of traditional rulers for regular and onward forwarding to schools reiterating that already 7 of these girls from safe space have written West African Council Examination and JAMB.

    He expressed gratitude with the support and cooperation of Adamawa state government since the inception of the project in the state since March 2019 and ended in June 2022 (3 years down).

    “Today’s summit themed “Girl Child Education; A Veritable tool for development, is organised to reinforce the necessity of training the girl child and to highlight the need for you seated here to join or continue the advocacy to advancing girl child education,” he said.

    Earlier in his speech chairperson of the occasion and Deputy Speaker Adamawa state House Of Assembly, Hon. Pwamakaino Mackondo said the project aim is to increase enrolment retention and completion of girl education in the 3 focal councils in our state.

    While appreciating the complimentary role of the state government, Mackondo enjoined the parents and benefitting girls to ensure continuation of the project for the benefit of the girl child.

    Our Correspondent reports that most of the stakeholders commended the efforts of the Centre for providing hope and confidence to the beneficiaries who initially dropped out of school due peculiar challenges they faced but were given another chance by Center LSD.

  • NGO seeks to empower out-of-school girls, physically-challenged through sports, education

    NGO seeks to empower out-of-school girls, physically-challenged through sports, education

    A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Additional Plus Sports and Education Initiative (APSE), on Wednesday said it would empower not less than 60 out-of-school girls, women and physically-challenged through sports.

    The Executive Director of APSE, Oluwaseun Narwoh, while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, bemoaned the high rate of out-of-school girls in the country.

    Narwoh, who spoke on the sidelines of the organisation’s programme aimed at empowering young girls, women and the physically-challenged, urged for an urgent redress.

    APSE is a non-profit organisation with the objectives of empowering young girls and women, including those with disabilities.

    “APSE shall be empowering 60 participants and this is specifically for young people between ages 6 and 11 in the Mowe area of Ogun, and this empowerment is hinged on harnessing hidden potential through sports and education.

    “We also want to create communal unity through leisure experience which will serve as an empowerment scheme towards the discovery and nurturing of identified talents for a more gratifying future.

    “It will be an avenue for the participants to be gainfully involved and engaged at their formative stage, since sports is a laboratory for talent and character-building necessary for any national advancement,’’ the APSE executive director said.

    She added that the scheme was for the exclusive intention of promoting diversity and social justice through the APSE Academy.

    Narwoh then disclosed that APSE would on Saturday hold a programme tagged “Awaken the Giant 1.0 Challenge’’ at the Eminent Kids Montessori School in Mowe.

    She said the organisation’s pet project was a start-up innovation programme for the development of young girls through the introduction of sports and Reading Club at the grassroots across Nigeria.

    “The management of APSE is launching the programme in Mowe in partnership with Eminent Kids Montessori School owing to the fact that there is no existence of sports there presently.

    “We understand that, worldwide, sports is an unrivaled tool that transcends all geographical barriers, age, ethnicity and social status.

    “The idea was borne out of the need to promote mass participation of young girls in sports and education, since sports provides hope where there seems to be none.

    “Also, education provides knowledge which is power,’’ Narwoh said.

    She said the vision of the NGO was to improve the orientation of girls on how they could sustain their education alongside their engagement in sports activities.

    “The vision of the clinic is to establish and sustain sports and reading club in local communities, and the mission is a continuous process of grooming participants in various sports.

    “So, we have sports such as table tennis, basketball, scrabble, football and athletics, with the aim of grooming the young ones to stardom through an exposure to state, national and global opportunities.

    “Having attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime workshop organised for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria, the resource materials shared on Doha Declaration on Education for Justice (E4J) Initiative tools shall be used in sustaining the reading club.

    “Along the line, this will help in promoting the culture of lawfulness amongst young people in Nigeria,” the APSE official said.(NAN)