N5,000 Monthly For Sending
Their Daughters To School, in collaboration with the United Nations
Children Fund (UNICEF), is training 830 female teachers in a
pioneer scheme to provide enough role models for female
students, especially in rural communities in different parts of
the state.
The Female Train the Trainee scheme is being executed
under UNICEF's Girls Education Project (GEP3). It's main
aim is to train female teachers from rural areas who would
in turn go back to their communities and teach.
Giving an insight into the project when she led a team on a
sensitisation visit to the wife of the state Governor, Hajiya
Mariya Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a Consultant overseeing the
implementation of the project, Maryam Usman Na'ibi, said
the GEP3 project also aims to get out of school 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 added.
Naibi said in order to take care of poverty issues, the Sokoto
state government and UNICEF introduced a cash transfer
programme where mothers or care givers get 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.
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