As part of its commitment towards supporting the
Nigerian Government to achieve its universal basic education target, the Oando Foundation
in partnership with USAID Education Crisis Response (ECR) has distributed
education starter kits to 1,508 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs children) in Bauchi and Adamawa States.
The Head of Oando Foundation, Adekanla Adegoke, who
stated this recently during the presentation of an award by the Bauchi
State Government to the foundation organised by the state government in
collaboration with the State Universal Basic Education Board, at the Government
House in Bauchi, said the foundation is to mainstream no fewer than 60,000
out-of-school children across the country into formal education system and
improve learning outcomes by 2018.
The head of the foundation said USAID Education
Crisis Response has partnered the foundation to mainstream internally displaced
children from non-formal learning centres to adopted public primary schools in
Bauchi and Adamawa States, adding that project beneficiaries are internally
displaced children who have had their education disrupted by insurgency which has
forced over two million people to flee their homes.
Adegoke said the foundation had earlier supported
500 IDPs and aided them into Oando adopted schools in 2016.
According to her, “In Adamawa and Bauchi States,
the foundation has adopted 11 schools, constructed 21units of classrooms,
provided furniture, sanitation facilities, established three solar-power, fully
equipped ICT centres, trained over 100 teachers in subject on knowledge competence
and modern pedagogy.
"USAID Emergency Crisis Response provides
access to informal and alternative education for children living in IDP camps
as well as out of school children in host communities between the ages of six
and 17 years."
In his address at the occasion, the Bauchi State Governor,
Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, said he inherited a collapsed education system
when he assumed office in 2015, and vowed that his government will give
priority to basic education in the state.
He explained that it was incumbent on his government
to improve public education as a deliberate policy of the government.
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