NGO empowers 300 adolescent girls in Borno IDPs camp

The Action Health Incorporated (AHI), in collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has graduated 300 girls trained in local cap (Zanna) making and Computer Literacy.Information Guide Nigeria

The graduation ceremony was held on Friday in Maiduguri

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Speaking at the graduation ceremony, the Executive Director of AHI, Adenike Esiet, said the graduates comprised 200 trained in local cap (Zanna) making while 100 were trained in computer literacy and coding.

She revealed that they were children of Internally Displaced Persons at the El-Badawi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri.NYSC portal

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According to THE GUARDIAN, she said that they were given start-up package containing materials for five caps to sustain their business, while the 100 computer learners, still in school, would be given certificates.

According to her, the research conducted in the camp by AHI on sexual and reproductive health and rights challenges of adolescent girls and young women in the camp, necessitated such support as part of measures to adress the challenges.

Esiet said: “We also engaged husbands and female partners to improve acceptance of SRH services and mitigate Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the camp,” Esiet said.

Also speaking at the event, Albishir Ibrahim who spoke on behalf of facilitators, said those who acquired the ICT training should consider themselves also equipped to face the 20th-century challenges.JAMB Result

“What you learnt is important and valuable in any sector,” Ibrahim said.