Community Embraces Western Education
The 1 GAME Campaign on recently began a State Access Campaign on Enrolment in Gombe to tackle the challenges of school enrolment in Gombe State. Speaking at the start of the programme in the State Capital, Project Development Coordinator, 1 GAME Campaign, Agafi Kunduli, explained the importance of having an access campaign on school enrolment at this period. Kunduli said that the campaign was to encourage enrolment of children in schools, especially almajiris in the State. He said that similar campaigns would be launched in the next few weeks in other states in the North-East region, targeting almajiris and other vulnerable children. “We are totally committed to meeting our objective of ensuring that every Nigerian child has access to free and compulsory basic education, a tool that undoubtedly would be used to defeat violence and ignorance. “That is why 1 GAME has initiated various programmes to create access to education for the Nigerian children. “We are getting everyone involved,...