Federal Government Plans to Set Up Special School for Married Women
This is good news for married women who still wish to further their education. According to Vanguard, the Minister for Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan has disclosed that the Federal Government is set to establish special schools for women who abandoned school to get married.
”All women that married at early age will have the opportunity to continue with their education from their husband’s houses. The schools will be in two categories so as to avoid problems emanating from the establishment of the schools.
The first category is for those who started their schooling but due to one reason or the other dropped out.
The other category is for the Adult Literacy classes that will be established in all local governments to assist women attain certain literacy level.
In the Adult literacy schools, the women will also be empowered with skills training during their lessons. The women will be trained how to make soap, local soft drink, candle, pomade, cake, local hair dressing, tailoring and other small businesses,” she told newsmen on Thursday in Katsina.
Speaking further, Alhassan appealed to religious and traditional leaders to continue supporting ongoing efforts to boost the enrollment of the girl child into schools nationwide, adding that the education of female children was very important as such the leaders should encourage parents to send them to school.
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