A non-governmental organisation(NGO ), Women for Women International, on Monday, established a main school at Rudugungun neighborhood, a predominantly Fulani settlement, for kids in the community to have access to basic education more than 50 years after its existence

. The settlement, located at Tirwun ward of Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, had actually been without a school with not successful attempts in the past to develop one there.

The school was established by the NGO, which is concerned about issues of violence against ladies and the woman child, in collaboration with Non-formal Education Department of Bauchi LGA in addition to the nomardic education company.

It was discovered that Women for Women International, discovered the need to develop the school in the settlement when it organised a training for chosen 24 women alter supporters and 3 male champs on how to reduce worried about issues of violence against ladies and girl-child.

Speaking with journalists, the leader of the ladies change agents, Hindetu Hassan Faruk, informed that they discovered that the child-girl was dragging in the neighborhood, that made them accept begin standard education classes there.

According to her, “We found that the girl child in the neighborhood was lagging behind. So, we paid advocacy visits to the community and at the 4th visit, the neighborhood agreed for us to begin a standard education class here.

“Alhamdulillah, today our happiness understands no bounds. Our efforts are not in vain; we have opened an avenue for the woman kid to be freed through basic education. She will, through this class, know her rights and standard concepts of life.”

Speaking at the occasion, the Village Head of Tirwun commended Women for Women International for discovering the neighborhood and facility of the fundamental nomadic class there.

Represented by Alhaji Mohammad, the town head submitted that basic education was the most essential thing to bestow on a kid, particularly the lady child and contacted the neighborhood to guarantee that they released their children to participate in the school.

The Fulani head of the community, known as Ardo, Mallam Yau Adamu, expressed joy that several years after the facility of the settlement, they were fortunate to have a basic school, which he exposed that the community had actually unsuccessfully tried in the past to have one.

While ensuring that kids in the location would be enrolled in the fundamental class, the Ardo contacted the state federal government and other NGOs to match the efforts of Women for Women International by offering school structure for easy knowing in the neighborhood.

On his part, the Deputy Director, Adult and non-formal Education, Bauchi LGA, Babangida Umar applauded the NGO for finding the neighborhood through its females alter agents initiative.

According to Umar, the NGO’s effort had complemented the efforts of Bauchi LGA in the area of education.

He ensured that the council would take control of the school and send an instructor to the neighborhood, who would be coming two times in a week for now till the school takes deep root.