AGILE-AF Organises Sensitization Campaign On Girls Education in Ngurore

AGILE-AF Organises Sensitization Campaign On Girls Education In Ngurore

By Muh’d Shafi’u Saleh

The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment, Additional Financing, (AGILE -AF), holds awareness-raising event in Ngurore community of Yola South Local Government Area of ​​Adamawa State on Friday.

Addressing the participants, the AGILE-AF project coordinator in the state, Engineer Sadiq Liman, represented by Mr Japhet Catfa, said that the state government in collaboration with the World Bank, developed the programme to educate out-of-school girls.

He said that the World Bank initially implemented the programme in seven states in northern Nigeria before expanding to other states, adding that the programme is now running in 18 states including Ekiti State in the south of the country.

He added that “after providing the support, we will renovate 210 schools and provide modern learning materials, and we will also open centres to train out-of-school girls in self-employment” he emphasize.

Also speaking, the Head of Research at Rhoma Enterprise, Dr Geoffrey Naphtali, said the importance of education for women cannot be overstated, hence they are working to sensitize parents and women themselves to achieve a better life.

In his speech the District Head of Ngurore, Alhaji Abubakar Babba Lawan, thanked the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, Lamido Adamawa for recognizing him as the Head, and thanked the state Ministry of Education and the Rhoma Association for holding the event at his palace.

The district head also pledged to provide full support and assistance for the awareness campaign for parents, as this is the first ever held in the area, “we will provide all the necessary support, so that we will benefit.

“All parents who have daughters who are not going to school, if possible, will be taught and given free education, along with assistance, so that we can send our daughters to school, and provide our sons so that we can also benefit from government assistance,” district head said.

Apart from the drama that was performed to entertain and entertain the participants, the mothers who attended the event praised the program as a way to wipe their tears.