Kaduna Begins Campaign to Enrol Out-of-School Children

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has commenced a massive campaign to enrol 145,000 out-of-school children for the 2019/2020 academic year.

While commenting on the initiative in Kaduna on Wednesday, 11th September, 2019, the board’s Acting Director, Social Mobilisation, Malam Ibrahim Aminu, Stated that the board had earlier mobilised 2,000 education stakeholders as influencers, who would sensitise and mobilise parents to send their children to school.

He stressed that the campaign, under the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA), targeted about 727,764 children in the state in the next five years.

“We have trained the 2,000 enrolment influencers, and they have begun community-based house-to-house sensitisation campaign on Monday with huge success recorded so far, ” he noted.

“If every school community will enroll at least 35 out-of-school children in the 4,260 primary schools in the state, we will achieve the 145,000 target, he added.

The board’s Acting Director, School Inspection and Monitoring, Malam Habib Alhassan, said that the teachers were being trained on the use of Hausa Language as a medium of instruction.