OANDO FOUNDATION BOOST GIRL LITERACY IN NIGERIA
Oando Foundation and the British Council have inaugurated Reach a Girl, Teach a Girl: Girls’ School Enrollment in Nigeria to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country. The $6m project, a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action, aims at enrolling no fewer than 230,000 Nigerian girls in primary school in the next three years. The project would also help no fewer than 21,000 girls’ transit from primary to secondary school, TheStreamNG gathered According to Executive Director, Oando Foundation, Ms. Tokunboh Durosaro, the scheme seeks to ensure that girls and women get the opportunity to play productive roles in governance and the larger society. In addition, she noted that the initiative would help reduce the population of 10.5 million out-of-school children in Nigeria. “Our track record of success and transforming schools across the country is directly connected to our familiarity with the social issue Nigerians face. The partnership with Brit...