An NGO based in Kaduna, Popularly known as Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI), has empowered 50 adolescent girls with digital skills and access to virtual learning as supplementary education platform in Kaduna state.
The founder and Programme Director, EWEI, Mrs Safiya Ibn-Garba hinted that the girls were empowered under the NGO’s Learning without Limit (LWL) project.
Ibn-Garba said at the project’s closeout in Kaduna on Tuesday, that the 50 teenage girls were selected from eight public secondary schools in the state.
She identified the schools as Government Girls Secondary (GSS) Kabala-Costain, GSS Babban Saura, GSS Rigachikun, GSS Television, GSS Doka, GSS Rigasa, GSS Goni-Gora and GSS Barnawa.
Meanwhile, she explained that LWL, a two-year project, was supported by the Girls Opportunity Alliance (GOA), a programme of the Obama Foundation that seeks to empower adolescent girls around the world through education.
She said that the LWL was designed to reduce the digital divide and gaps in access to virtual learning for adolescent girls in Kaduna state.
The programme director said that the project also provided additional opportunities for adolescent girls to access quality and wholesome education and improved their performance in some subject areas.
She further said that with the emergence of technology and the innovation of virtual learning, the girls were supported with technology gadgets.
She identified the gadgets as computer tablets, power banks and earpieces for supplementary education in five key subject areas.
“In addition, the beneficiaries also enjoyed capacity-building in digital marketing, graphic design, climate action, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and basic life skills using UNICEF curricula.
“The essence is to improve their performance in specific subject areas and demonstrate a community inclusive approach to improving access to quality education for girls through the involvement of states and non-state actors,” she said.
