Malala visits Nigeria to push girls’ education priorities

Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, is successful Abuja to conscionable with the Board of Directors of the Malala Fund, aimed astatine advancing its priorities connected girls’ acquisition successful Nigeria.

Nankwat Dakum, the Fund’s Communication Manager successful Nigeria, made this known successful a connection connected Saturday successful Abuja.

Dakum said that during the visit, Malala would articulation her begetter and co-founder Ziauddin Yousafzai, the Fund’s Chief Executive Officer,  Lena Alfi, and committee members successful advancing the priorities.

She listed the priorities to see ensuring that joined and large girls could instrumentality to school, expanding acquisition financing to conscionable girls’ needs and utilizing acquisition arsenic a argumentation solution to extremity kid marriage.

According to Dakum, Malala volition besides conscionable with young girls and acquisition champions supported by Malala Fund, to perceive straight astir their experiences, including the changes they privation to spot successful their communities.

She added that Malala would clasp engagements with cardinal authorities and civilian nine leaders to assistance accelerate advancement for girls’ acquisition crossed Nigeria.

“Nigeria is simply a precedence state successful Malala Fund’s planetary strategy (2025–2030).

“Since 2014, Malala Fund has invested implicit $8 cardinal U.S. dollars successful Nigerian spouse organisations moving to interruption down the barriers keeping girls retired of school.

“Malala’s instrumentality to Nigeria comes astatine a pivotal infinitesimal arsenic government, civilian society, and planetary partners look to fortify commitments truthful each miss successful Nigeria tin entree and implicit 12 years of education,” she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Malala Fund had pledged $50 cardinal U.S. dollars globally to tackle barriers hindering girls’ entree to education, with a important allocation to Nigeria.

The backing forms portion of the Fund’s caller five-year strategy titled: Strengthening Rights and Securing Resources for Girls’ Secondary Education.

The strategy volition enactment section groups, advocator for amended acquisition funding, and assistance girls implicit 12 years of education, particularly those affected by aboriginal marriage.

NAN further reports that the Malala Fund, co-founded successful 2013 by Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai, champions 12 years of free, safe, and prime acquisition for each miss globally. 

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