By Sani Idris
A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Creative Think Tank, has unveiled plans to empower 200 school girls with skills in 2025.
Chairman of the group, Olivera Idahosa, disclosed this during the“Kaduna Girl Child Conference and Award Ceremony” in Kaduna.
According to Olivera, the girl child is more vulnerable in the society, that is why his organization is putting more emphasis on providing solutions to those threats and challenges that they face.
He said the conference aims to empower the girl child, foster security, and provide a platform for societal progress.
“We are looking at how we can create an enabling environment that is safe and healthy for the girl child to flourish and achieve her dream and we cannot do it alone, the government has a role to play in this, our political leaders has a role to play, the society leaders has a role to play, so also the civil society organizations and the parents.
“But unfortunately, over time, it seems our values in society are slipping away. So this program is to reawaken those values, the roles of our mothers, the roles of our fathers the roles of our religious leaders, what we can do to put together and create an enabling environment for the girl child to strive.” He said.
“So, we have put up this program to see how we can continue to empower young individuals and align our visions with that of government by 2025, they are including into the school curriculum skills acquisition for students.
“While they are studying, they should also learn skills and i think that is very laudable. So, we are working ahead of time, we want to see how we catch these girls young.
“We want to empower them and our main focus of this program is to see how we can pull out 200 girl child and fix them up in different skills, so that by next year, while we are doing second edition of this program, we want to celebrate those young girls here while they are done with that skills acquisition program.” Olivera explained.
In his address, Senator Shehu Sani, who was also one of the awardee, while commending the organizers of the conference, noted that the challenge of out of school girls in the North and the education backwardness of the North is people’s unwillingness to invest in Education.
“The issue is not the absence of education facilities, not also also about money it’s simply about people not willing to invest in education.
“Our political elite need to know this very well that presents they can give their own children the best of education in the best of schools in Abuja or abroad so if you educate two people.
“If we have a political leadership at all levels that are determined to make sure that we have 100% literacy in the next 10 years it’s possible it can be done you see I just did a little research.” Sani said.
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