Segun James
As part of promoting girl-child education in Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation, Ornaments of Grace and Virtue (OGAV), has empowered 1,000 students in public secondary schools in Lagos State with care packs containing food items, sanitary pads, underwear and stationeries.
The beneficiaries were pupils of public secondary schools in Lagos State Education District (LSED) I, which covered Agege, Alimosho and Ifako-Ijaiye.
Speaking at the programme, held recently at Government Senior College, Agege, the founder of OGAV, Olubusola Kolade, noted that the idea behind it was to foster a better future for Nigeria since educating the girl child amounts to training a nation.
The empowerment scheme initiative tagged: ‘Blooming in Adversity,’ was done in collaboration with Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation.
Kolade said her foundation and collaborators had been at the forefront of promoting girl-child education for over five years.
According to her, the organisation organises a one-month summer leadership camp for teenage schoolgirls annually though the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow the camp to hold in 2020.
A nurse, Alaba Ajayi, demonstrated how the girls could use sanitary wear and counselled the pupils on do’s and don’ts during mensuration. The Lagos tutor-general (Education District I), Titilayo Solarin and Olubukola Rosanwo, head of the counselling unit, lectured the students on attaining their potential.
