In Sokoto, Parents Get Paid N5000 For Sending Girls To School
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in
partnership with Sokoto government, is set to
train 830 female teachers.
The scheme, which is to provide enough role
models for female students especially in rural
communities in different parts of the state, is
being executed under UNICEF’s Girls Education
Project (GEP3).
In a statement released by the Special Adviser
on Media and Public Affairs to the governor,
Imam Imam on Tuesday, it was disclosed that
the main aim is to train female teachers from
rural areas who would in turn go back to their
communities and teach.
A consultant overseeing the implementation of
the project, Maryam Usman Na’ibi, during a
sensitization visit to the wife of the state
Governor, Mariya Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said
the GEP3 project also aims to get rural children
back to school without further delay.
“We have discovered that among the reasons
behind girls dropping out of school children are
poverty, religious misconception, ignorance,
cultural beliefs and insecurity. Parents are afraid
of sending their girl children to school because
of fear that they may be molested by male
teachers.”
“So in order to reassure communities holding
such misconceptions, we decided to train female
teachers from among themselves who will in
turn take the lead in teaching children from
their localities,” she said.
Naibi said to help reduce poverty issues,the
Sokoto state government and UNICEF
introduced a cash transfer programme where
mothers or care givers are paid 5000 Naira
monthly for sending a girl child to school to
assist them buy books and other things for the
girls.
“In addition to the payment to mothers and care
givers, the trainee female teachers also get paid
to aid their education while at the end of their
studies, they are absorbed into the state civil
service as teachers in their localities. So far, the
GEP3 is implemented in six local government
areas namely Binji, Bodinga, Gudu, Goronyo,
Kebbe and Wurno.”
“While the state government sponsors 600 of
the female teachers, UNICEF takes care of 230
for the FTTSS programmes,” the statement said.
partnership with Sokoto government, is set to
train 830 female teachers.
The scheme, which is to provide enough role
models for female students especially in rural
communities in different parts of the state, is
being executed under UNICEF’s Girls Education
Project (GEP3).
In a statement released by the Special Adviser
on Media and Public Affairs to the governor,
Imam Imam on Tuesday, it was disclosed that
the main aim is to train female teachers from
rural areas who would in turn go back to their
communities and teach.
A consultant overseeing the implementation of
the project, Maryam Usman Na’ibi, during a
sensitization visit to the wife of the state
Governor, Mariya Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said
the GEP3 project also aims to get rural children
back to school without further delay.
“We have discovered that among the reasons
behind girls dropping out of school children are
poverty, religious misconception, ignorance,
cultural beliefs and insecurity. Parents are afraid
of sending their girl children to school because
of fear that they may be molested by male
teachers.”
“So in order to reassure communities holding
such misconceptions, we decided to train female
teachers from among themselves who will in
turn take the lead in teaching children from
their localities,” she said.
Naibi said to help reduce poverty issues,the
Sokoto state government and UNICEF
introduced a cash transfer programme where
mothers or care givers are paid 5000 Naira
monthly for sending a girl child to school to
assist them buy books and other things for the
girls.
“In addition to the payment to mothers and care
givers, the trainee female teachers also get paid
to aid their education while at the end of their
studies, they are absorbed into the state civil
service as teachers in their localities. So far, the
GEP3 is implemented in six local government
areas namely Binji, Bodinga, Gudu, Goronyo,
Kebbe and Wurno.”
“While the state government sponsors 600 of
the female teachers, UNICEF takes care of 230
for the FTTSS programmes,” the statement said.
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