UNICEF, Stakeholders Brainstorm On Out-of-School Children In Sokoto

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), successful concern with assemblage leaders, has stepped up efforts to trim the rising fig of out-of-school children successful Sokoto state.

At the Digital Village for Almajiri Boys renovated by UNICEF with backing from Eleva Foundation, UNICEF state typical successful Nigeria, Mrs Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, commended the show of 180 Almajiri boys undergoing integer entrepreneurship grooming nether a UNICEF-sponsored programme successful the state.

The Almajiri trainees, drawn from Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger and Katsina states, are being equipped with integer skills aimed astatine making them self-reliant aft the programme.

As portion of her moving sojourn to Sokoto State, Mrs Abdelatef besides interacted with Christian and Muslim spiritual leaders from Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states, who participated successful a one-day kid rights gathering (Faith of Life).

She ended the monitoring workout with an on-the-spot appraisal sojourn to Makarantar Malam Umaru Kabawa, a backstage inaugural wide literacy school, comprising of out-of-school 120 boys and 80 girls successful Yabo section authorities country and Yabo Model Primary School.

At Yabo Model Primary School, Mrs Abdelatef commended the schoolhouse absorption and SBMC, for their humble achievements but expressed interest implicit the thousands of children inactive roaming the streets alternatively of being successful schools.

Stakeholders including accepted and spiritual leaders, pledged to prolong schoolhouse enrollment. They however, raised alarm implicit poorness and deficiency of parental sensitization arsenic large drivers of the menace.

Representing the territory caput of Yabo, Mallam Abubakar lamented that, “many families cannot spend to support their children successful school, portion immoderate parents inactive deficiency capable consciousness of the worth of education.”

SBMC chairman, Mai Kasuwa Dan Shehu, said the committee had succeeded successful returning respective children to schoolhouse but noted difficulties successful sustaining them beyond superior and secondary acquisition owed to fiscal constraints.