Acting Akwa Ibom First Lady Canvasses Education For Girls

The coordinator of the Office of the First Lady of Akwa Ibom State, Lady Helen Eno-Obareki, has identified education, information and societal empowerment for the girl-child arsenic strategical investments with precocious returns.
She spoke astatine the Government House Banquet Hall, Uyo, during the solemnisation of the 2025 International Day of the Girl Child with the theme, “The Girl I am, The Change I Lead: Girls connected the Frontlines of Crisis”.
Lady Obareki, therefore, underscored the value of investing successful girls’ acquisition and empowerment arsenic important for the corporate aboriginal of the state.

She noted that erstwhile a girl’s close to safety, education, and wellness is compromised, it jeopardises not lone her aboriginal but besides the aboriginal of the state.

The archetypal lady-designate highlighted the Golden Initiative for All (GIFA), a favored task of her precocious mother, explaining that it was deliberately designed to construe planetary goals for girl-child empowerment into tangible section impacts.

“The strategical investments successful a girl’s dignity, her education, and her empowerment, volition output returns crossed wellness outcomes, economical growth, and generational stability.

“We indispensable recognize that erstwhile a girl’s close to safety, education, and wellness is compromised, it is not conscionable her aboriginal that is jeopardized, but the corporate aboriginal of our state.

“Under the visionary ARISE Agenda of our Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, and done the committedness of the Office of the First Lady, we are dedicated to dismantling these barriers.

“Our favored project, the Golden Initiative for All (GIFA), which I americium privileged to chair, has been strategically designed to guarantee that the planetary goals for girl-child empowerment are translated into tangible section impact.

“Through GIFA, the inaugural is making targeted investments successful enhancing leadership, learning, and economical empowerment for girls,” she stressed.

She called connected stakeholders, including authorities agencies, assemblage leaders, parents, and teachers, to renew their committedness to the miss kid and her advancement.

Also, Obareki urged girls to put their strength, ain their voice, and ne'er halt learning, describing them arsenic “the heartbeat of advancement and the leaders the satellite is waiting for.”

The lawman governor, Dr. Akon Eyakenyi, urged girls successful the authorities to prioritise education, noting that “the kid close instrumentality domesticated successful the authorities volition assistance successful protecting children from exploitation.”