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Foundation Supports Out-of-School Children with Learning Platform in Abuja
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Flexisaf Foundation on Tuesday said it carried out an accelerated learning project for three years to tackle the issue of out-of-school children in Rugga Community, in Wuye District Abuja.
Executive Director Flexisaf, Amina Abubakar said this at the Flexisaf Pre-Transition Event to wrap up its Accelersted learning Project to transit beneficiaries to formal schools.
According to Abubakar, the accelerated learning Project is an innovative model of the foundation and it works by creating safe spaces in target communities and employing instructors to teach beneficiaries of the project.
She said that the foundation provided education to indigent children through mobile schooling to reduce the number of out-of-school children under ages eight to 11 to learn the basics of education before enrolling in formal education.
“The selected out-of-school children in the community are then classified into classes according to their age and metal capacity.
“They are taught from a robust curriculum that embodies teaching like, numeracy, life skills, jolly phonics and computational thinking, then they will be transited into formal education.
“`The foundation will not just stop at transiting the children to formal schooling systems, but it will continually monitor their progress and also provide every necessary materials and items for their effective takeoff.
Co-Founder of the foundation, Ahmad Salihjo, expressed joy at the success of the event adding that he was glad the children could speak English and compose themselves .
Salihjo said that he would work out ways to ensure that the school and some neighboring houses were provided with solar home systems to power the classrooms.
Mr Hamzat Lawal ,CEO ,CODE ,represented by Mr Mukhtar Modibbo ,Community Engagement Offiecr ,CODE ,common said that though CODE had worked in other communities but it did not know that a community like Rugga existed in the FCT.
Lawal said that CODE’s partnership Flexisaf to help tackle out-of -school children in Rugga community paid off because the children improved in learning.
He said that he was recently given the Global Partners for Educating young people award and promised to us the platform to advance education in Nigeria
Laban Onisimus, Mr. Laban Onisimus, Education Specialist, Plan International Nigeria thanked Flexisaf Foundation for helping to tackle issues of out-of-school children which was a concert to all.
Onisimus said that recently, the curriculum for accelerated education was developed and submitted to the federal ministry of education .
He added that Flexisaf would be invited to give field their field experience as Plan International meets with stakeholders and the European union to develop a guideline for the implementation of accelerated education.
The representative from Universal Basic Education Commission(UBEC), Iliyasu Hussaini ,principal ,Quality Assistance Officer UBEC said that the commission was saddled with the responsibility to ensure that all school age children were in school.
Hussaini said that the Federal Government obtained a 611 millions dollars grant through the World Bank to bring out-of-school children back to school under the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA).
Hussaini said that the commission was happy with what Flexisafe did in Rugga adding that a report would be taken to the Executive secretary of the commission about the establishment of a formal school to enable the children continue their education .
Programme Officer, Flexisaf Foundation ,Egbunu Nelson, said that the accelerated learning project was a project focused on speed and quality so the three years early age curriculum was compressed into 12 months.
Nelson said that when the foundation came to the community three years ago,most of the children could not read no write and some could not even hold pens but the case was now different .
” We use the Montessorti approach to teach, so it is easier for them to now blend letter sounds to form words and with that ,they are enabled to read and ready to be transitioned into formal schools,” he said.
The Head of the community ,Mai Unguwa Rugga, Adamu Ahmadu, thanked the foundation to helping children in the community to learn .
Ahmadu, therefore, called on the government to help provide formal schools for the community so children could further their education and not be left behind for the benefit of the community and the nation at large .
Alarmed by the accelerating number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, Flexisaf Foundation , CODE and other partners came together to identify out-of- school children and provided quality basic education for them.(NAN)
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Jos School Collapse: CWON Holds Trauma Healing Session for Parents, Survivors
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From Jude Dangwam, Jos
The Catholic Women Organization of Nigeria (CWON) has organized a trauma healing session for survivors of the Jos Saint Academy School collapse alongside parents who lost their children in the unfortunate incident.The National President of the organization, Dame Mary Gonzum noted that the effort was part of their psychosocial support and counseling services for victims of the school building collapse as a follow-up to the assessment of the condition of the victims during their visit.
Gonzum speaking during a one day trauma session held at the Secretariat of the Justice Development and Peace/Caritas Commission (JDPC) of the Catholic Archdiocese located along Zaria Road in Jos the Plateau State capital said the trauma healing session was in continuation of their intervention to students who experienced the building collapsed.”Today, a trauma healing session was flagged off with a seminar on how to go about handling the trauma that victims of the Saint Academy School Busa Buji in Jos are passing through.”We will later select those that are so traumatic and need help to continue with the process of healing because it is not something that will end in a day or two but will need sometime.”The surviving students who experienced the building collapsed, parents of the students are all here because some parents are so traumatic, we have one other woman that lost two children”This trauma became necessary because when we went visiting in the hospitals, we observed that some of them are really traumatic. Like the other boy, his mother said up till today he kept telling his mother that he is seeing dead bodies, and anybody he sees he will say is his classmate.”Some of the affected parents while sharing their encounters after the incident said they hardly sleep in the day or night time. Some manage to sleep for two hours and they’re awake, and from the little lectures we received today it is clear that there is a problem,” She noted.The President calls on the government to ensure that those saddled with the responsibility of approving, inspecting and supervising structures are meant to do their job with all diligence to avert future happenings again.Some of the affected parents including; Hasana Suleman Sale who lost two of her children recalled with pains the unfortunate development that claimed the lives of her two children. She expressed gratitude for the trauma healing session which she said came as a means of consolation and strength for her to overcome the trauma she is passing through.Metro
Catholic Church Welcomes New Apostolic Nuncio
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The Catholic Church in Nigeria has welcomed the newly-appointed Apostolic to Nigeria, Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty.
Crotty, an Irish, was appointed by the Vatican.
He will oversee the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ through the church in Nigeria.
The position, an ambassadorial status, advances cohesion in the body of Christ.
In his welcome message for Crotty on Tuesday, the President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, said that the Church was glad to receive him.
The CBCN president, who is also the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Archdiocese, said,” With joy and gratitude to God, I extend a hearty welcome to Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty on behalf of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, clergy, religious and lay faithful in Nigeria.
“We are thankful to His Holiness, Pope Francis, for appointing Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty as the Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria to build on the good works of his predecessor, Archbishop Antonio Filipazzi.
“His appointment is a testament to the strong spiritual bond between our countries,” he said.
He said that although Crotty was the first Apostolic Nuncio from Ireland to serve in Nigeria, many Irish missionaries had played significant roles in spreading the gospel in Nigeria.
“We appreciate Archbishop Crotty’s acceptance of serving in Nigeria and assure him of our full support and cooperation.
“We pray for a fruitful mission and a blessed tenure for our excellency,” he added. (NAN)
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Boundary Commission to Provide Infrastructure Along Disputed Boundary Areas
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The National Boundary Commission (NBC), says it has concluded plans to provide infrastructure in flash locations along interstate boundaries to encourage integration and cooperation.
The Director-General of the commission, Mr Adamu Adaji, stated this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday.
Adaji said that the commission would look at flash point areas and provide infrastructures that would encourage cooperation and integration among border communities.
He said that the goal was to see how the commission could bring people in border communities together to share from a common facility.
This, according to him, will douse tension and bring some kind of understanding among border communities.
“The bounder communities will share the facilities, which in the long run will bring the people together and eventually reduce tension and boundary conflicts.
“This is a way of encouraging integration and cooperation by encouraging people to come together, relate with one another and engage in beneficial commercial activities.”
Adaji said that a similar initiative was test runed with a borehole, constructed boundary corridor in Ado Local Government Area of Benue state, where it shared boundary with Ebonyi.
“We have also been able to construct some market stalls in the Ebonyi sector of the boundary between Ebonyi and Cross River,” he added.
“So, our appeal is for people to appreciate, cooperate and understand that boundaries are not barriers.
“The boundary line will not stop somebody from owning properties across and that is what we want to partner with the states to educate people along by the boundary corridors. (NAN)