Educating young girls therefore fulfils a dual purpose by not only improving the lives of girls, but also ensuring that they are able to contribute to the social, economic and political development of their communities and nations.
Girls’ education was and still is discouraged in many parts of Nigeria. Education for the female child is often regarded as a waste of resources. Parents continue to believe that the female child will eventually end up as a housewife away from her parents and that investing in her education is an unnecessary drain on scarce family resource.
The resultant problems of lack of education for girls range from illiteracy and ignorance, to general social and economic hardships and poverty, and human trafficking, and early marriage.
- Advocating for girls’ education.
- Providing various skills acquisition and empowerment programs for disadvantaged girls, especially in rural Nigeria.
- Organizing financial literacy programs aimed at promoting financial independence.
- Early detection and intervention programs targeting at-risk girls, using mixed methods of monitoring, evaluation and counselling.
- Sponsorship/scholarship programs for disadvantaged girls to pursue vocational and post-secondary education.
- Raising awareness on the importance of girls education in rural communities.
- Promoting policies that favor gender balance in public and private domains.
- Advocating for stricter laws and policies against child trafficking and early marriage.
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