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By Joseph Adahnu, Yola
No fewer than 2,250 adolescence girls have received menstrual hygiene kits in three local government areas in Adamawa State.
The local government areas are Gombi, Lamurde and Madagali.
GPE-AF Education Specialist, UNICEF Bauchi office, Abdulrahaman Ado said, 2,250 have been targeted for the project.
“The monitoring and evaluation field trip by the implementing partners and government officials, in the company of journalists, to Gombi LGA witnessed a programme of distribution of menstrual hygiene kits to adolescent girls, which was meant for 2,250 girls across the 3 benefitting councils (Lamurde, Gombi, and Madagali) simultaneously,” he said.
Adamawa state government has vowed to sustain the Accelerated Basic Education Program (ABEP) meant for addressing the challenge of out-of-school children bedeviling most states in the country.
Speaking, the Commissioner for Education and Human Services Department, Garba Umar Pella, gave the commitment during a sustainability assurance interface between the UNICEF officials, Ministry of Education officials, experts, and media practitioners in Yola, as part of wrap-up activities for the Global Partnership in Education (GPE-AF) project in the state.
The Commissioner represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Hajiya Aisha Muhammad Umar, Garba Pella expressed gratitude to the implementing partners, stressing that the program has created a window for the children who dropped out of school to have another opportunity to continue their education pursuit through both formal and non-formal arrangements.
He assured that, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri’s administration is solidly keen on its responsibility, especially in the education sector, which is the bedrock of all developments, pledging to ensure the program continues in all the 123 learning centres formed across the three pilot local government areas, including Gombi, Lamurde, and Madagali.
The Commissioner further stated that the project of Sangaya and Early Children Education (ECE) will help in reducing out-of-school children. Likewise, funding would not affect the sustainability of the project, asserting that the Ministry’s budgetary allocations would no doubt accommodate the expenditures associated with the facilitation of the program in the state.
In his presentation on the state’s GPE-AF planned and achieved results, Godwin Kure Lucky, the Ministry of Education Unicef focal person explained that when the program was introduced last year, the state government targeted 7,200 learners but was able to realize 12,000 learners accessing the Accelerated Basic Education Program (ABEP) in the three pilot local councils.
Lucky declared that the back-to-school campaign conducted by the Ministry, its implementing partners, with the support of traditional and religious leaders, added enrollments of more learners into formal and non-formal schools, highlighting that 48 schools were targeted for the GPE project in the three local government areas.
Delivering his lecture earlier on an overview of the GPE project, Education Specialist, UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Dr Abdulrahman Ado announced that the GPE-AF project is being implemented in three states of the North East region, including Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, with a view to creating a sound education sector.
The Bauchi Field Officer specialist maintained that the cardinal point of the project are to provide access to safe and inclusive education continuity, inclusive quality crisis-responsive learning and skills development (Recovery in medium term), and resilience initiatives for education systems and feed back.
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