The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) has enrolled not less than 1,567 adolescent girls who dropped out of school in Bauchi State into Second Chance centres.
This was made this known in an interview with the AGILE project Coordinator in Bauchi State, on Thursday.
She said that the girls were enrolled under the “Second Chance” initiative of AGILE, which is now known as Alternative Education.
She explained that “already, we have established 21 centres across the 20 local government areas of the state, where we have a centre in each local government area, with two centres in Bauchi.
“All the enrolled girls have been placed across these centres and they have started learning two months ago.”
She further explained that AGILE has also established Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) where complaints were received from the communities, parents, teachers and the public on any AGILE related activities.
She said a grievance redress committee had been constituted and charged with collecting those grievances through the GRM boxes across the 20 local government areas in all the AGILE intervention schools.
“We also have a Digital Literacy Component where 100 schools have been selected and we have gone round the schools.
“We have mapped them but we are yet to start the digital literacy programme in the schools because we are still in the process of procuring devices like laptops and solar power materials,” the coordinator added.
NAN reports that AGILE is a World Bank-assisted intervention designed to improve secondary education opportunities among girls in targeted areas.
The project also aims to address the despairing situation of adolescent girls’ education and empowerment.
