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Kwara Govt Emphasizes Importance Of Providing Adequate Education For Female Children.
Kwara State Government has emphasized the importance of providing adequate education and awareness for female children to help them against societal exploitation.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Olanrewaju Bake stated this in Ilorin while speaking at a conference jointly organised by Chidinma and Havilah Foundation and Seed of Praise Centre for Youth, Women, and Children Development Initiative to commemorate this year’s International Day of Girl Child.
The Permanent Secretary, represented by a Director in the Ministry, Mrs. Victoria Funmilayo, explained that the girl child faces various challenges globally.
She identified poverty, illiteracy, gender discrimination, religious limitation, economic factor, and sexual violence as some of the challenges facing the girl child.
According to her, adolescent girls in some climes drop out of school to be forced into marriage.
“incidence of constant sexual harassment of the girl child and rape are major challenges facing the girl child”
She stressed that the girls’ child must be empowered with social, economic, political, educational and psychological tools.
The State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adat Modibbo Kawu, urged students drawn from across the state to face their studies and make life meaningful for themselves.
Hajia Modibbo Kawu, represented by a Director in the Ministry, Mrs Ayanlola Omolola, called on stakeholders to work towards a future in which girls are valued, educated, and given the ability to lead in the vision for the girl child future.
In a keynote a address entitled: “Promoting Adolescent Girls’ Formal Education Enrolment through Media Engagement and Visibility”, the Secretary, Kwara State NUJ Council, Mahmood Alaya said that being a girl should not determine what a girl child can achieve, where she can go, or who she can become.
He, however, described girls as not only resilient in the face of adversity but also hopeful for a brighter future.
Reporting: Abubakar Umar
Editing: Abdullahi Ahmed
