EU, Jesuit Offer Education Grant To Borno’s 56,000 Out-of-School Children

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and the European Union (EU) person renewed their acquisition assistance for 56,000 out-of-school children, comprising 30,000 girls and 26,000 boys successful Borno State.

At the motorboat of the programme with the theme, “Enhancing Access to Safe and Quality Education for Vulnerable, Conflict affected Children successful Borno State, North-East Nigeria”, the state manager of JRS, Rev Temple Anuforo, said the closures of camps successful Borno State continued to displace thousands of families, putting immense unit connected already fragile infrastructure, and creating constricted entree to safe, prime acquisition for susceptible conflict-affected and displaced children.

He said arsenic of 2022, of the implicit 18 cardinal out-of-school children successful Nigeria, astir 1.8 cardinal were successful Borno, adding that this was the discourse successful which the task was archetypal conceived.

He said the project’s archetypal phase, which lasted from 2023 to June 2025, was co-funded by European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and co-implemented by JRS and CATAI.
The state manager of JRS added that the task touched the lives of implicit 25,000 people, offering them the needed support, recalling the singular testimonies received from the stakeholders during the close-out gathering of the past task successful June 2025.

“Through the benefaction of ECHO, the existent task not lone builds connected the successes of the erstwhile one, but besides deepens, consolidates and expands connected it. In addition, isolated from Dikwa and Mongono, this existent task volition besides grow to a caller section authorities country of Ngala, which is presently experiencing a scarcity of humanitarian actors successful the look of deepening acquisition emergency.

“Altogether, this caller project, which volition past for 24months, aims to scope implicit 56,0000 persons (nearly 30,000 girls and much than 26,000 boys), ensuring that children aged 6 to 17 years, whether they beryllium IDPs, returnees, refugees, oregon members of big communities, tin larn successful a harmless supportive environment. Indeed, what we are gathered present to people contiguous is simply a communicative of continuity, growth, and we are joyful,” Anuforo said.

Also, the enforcement manager of the Centre for Advocacy, Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (CATAI), Muazu Abubakar Sadiq, said the task is the manifestation of the archetypal interaction that resulted successful the renewal for 2nd phase, and astir importantly, is the request to supply entree to radical successful request of acquisition crossed insurgency-affected areas of Dikwa and Ngala.

“Why we are expanding this task is to spot however champion to enactment intimately with the authorities successful addressing the out-of-school children and intensify much effort successful retaining much girls successful schools. At the extremity of the day, these girls volition person entree to prime acquisition to negociate their menstrual hygiene. Also, we are supporting the caregivers of the children with income-generating activities to halt them from sending their wards to farms alternatively of schools, “ said Sadiq.