The Federal Government will on Monday (today) begin an education advocacy programme for school-aged children displaced in the North-East states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe by the Boko Haram sect.
According to a statement on Sunday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Internally Displaced Persons, Dr. Mariam Masha, the programme will involve writing and speech competition among the children in those states.
Marsha said the programme would adopt the children as the main advocates of education and voices countering all forms of extreme violence.
She said, “The competition is open to all school-aged children (8 -18 years old) currently receiving various forms of education in the Internally Displaced Persons camps and host communities in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
“This advocacy model will engage the children in conversations concerning their educational plans, intending to create a sense of involvement and enhance the success and sustainability of their education.
“The programme, tagged ‘2016 Protecting Education Advocacy Challenge, PEACH’, will involve school-aged children residing in the camps and host communities across the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, and will be conducted in three stages.”
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