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Collaboration between the Borno state government and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has created a temporary learning centre where not less than 4,000 children now receive education in Borno state.
The displaced children, aged between 3 and 15 years, who hail from Mafa and Jere local government areas of the state were forced to abandon their studies in the past six years by the Boko Haram insurgency. The apparently enthusiastic children were found reciting the English letters and alphabets at their newly opened IDPs camp schools located in Muna Custom area at the outskirts of Maiduguri in Borno state.
Speaking on the situation, Lawan Sale, the education secretary of Mafa local government and one of the local education secretaries in charge of managing the schools, said 'giving the kids a space to learn comes as a huge relief.'
His counterpart, Chester Shaba, an Education Specialist for UNICEF at the Maiduguri field office commented that ' the idea about UNICEF collaborating with the state government to provide temporary learning space for the kids was like an afterthought.Initially we did not consider it necessary because the children are in the camp on temporary bases... but now that we see that they will be here for a long time, they need to be provided with all their rights; and one of their basic rights is the right to education.We anticipate registering over 4000 children; right now, in just two days, we have reached a target of over 2, 000 children.'
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