Enrolment
By Olaide Ayinde
Bauchi, Dec. 10, 2025 (NAN) Women Child Youth Health and Education Initiative (WCY) with support from Malala Education Champion Network, says its charting a way to enroll adolescent mothers to access education in Bauchi schools.
Rashida Mukaddas, the Executive Director of WCY said this in Bauchi on Wednesday at a one-day planning and inception meeting with education stakeholders on Adolescent Mothers Education Access (AMEA) project of the organisation.
She said that the project targeted three Local Government Areas of Bauchi, Misau and Katagum for implementation in the three-year project.
She said that all stakeholders in advancing education in the state would be engaged by the organisation to advocate Girl-Child education.
The target, she added, was to ensure that many married adolescent mothers and girls were enrolled back to school in the state.
“Today marks an important step in our collective commitment to ensuring that every girl in Bauchi state, especially an adolescent who is married, pregnant, or a young mother has the right, opportunity and support to continue and complete her education.
“This project has been designed to address the real and persistent barriers that prevent many adolescent mothers from returning to school or staying enrolled.
“It is also about adopting strategies that will create an enabling environment that safeguards girls’ rights to education while removing socio-cultural and economic obstacles,” Mukaddas said.
She said that the success of the project depended on the strength of the stakeholders’ collaboration, the alignment of their actions, and the commitments they forge toward the implementation of the project.
Also speaking, Mr Kamal Bello, the Project Officer of WCY, said that the collaboration with the education stakeholders in the state, could ensure stronger enforcement of the Child Rights Law.
“This will ensure an effective re-entry and retention policies for adolescent girls, increased community support for girls’ education and a Bauchi state where no girl is left behind because of marriage, pregnancy, or motherhood.
“It is observed that early marriage is one of the problems hindering girls’ access to education.
“This organisation is working toward ensuring that girls that have dropped out of school due to early marriage are re-enrolled back in school,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that education stakeholders present at the event include the representatives of the state Ministry of Education, Justice, Budget and Economic Planning and Multilateral Coordination.
Others are representatives of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), Bauchi state Agency for Mass Education, Civil Society Organisation, and religious and traditional institutions.
They all welcomed and promised to support the project to ensure its effective implementation and achievement of set objectives in the state.(NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Chidi Opara
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