Save Our Needy Celebrates First International Education Day.

Save Our Needy joined the rest of the world yesterday to celebrate the very first International Education Day. The theme of this day was “Education for Peace and Development”.

Education is a key driver of social change and economic growth, and its importance for achieving gender equality has been widely recognized. It has always been an important element for the development of an individual. It broadens the horizon of one’s mind. Education is one of the most powerful tools we can implement in our global efforts to promote world peace and security.

Education offers people a ladder out of poverty and a path to a promising future. Sadly, about 265 million children and adolescents around the world still do not have the opportunity to enter or complete school. More than a fifth of them are of primary school age.

Nigeria has a high rate of illiteracy. At least 40% of the population, that is about 75 million people cannot read or write a simple sentence. Of this population, the majority of them are women. Forty per cent of Nigerian children aged 6-11 do not attend any primary school with the Northern region recording the lowest school attendance rate in the country, particularly for girls. Despite a significant increase in net enrollment rates in recent years, it is estimated that about 4.7 million children of primary school age are still not in school.

Empowering girls to become self-reliant

 

The education sector in Nigeria today, particularly in Northern Nigeria, faces a lot of challenges including a lack of skilled teachers, poor infrastructure, lack of learning equipment and unconducive environment for learning.

Another challenge in Nigeria is the issue of girls’ education. Among the critical challenges that impede girls’ education are poverty, conflict and violence, early marriages, harmful traditional practices, long distances to school, religious beliefs and inadequate menstrual hygiene.

Save Our Needy works to advance equal access to quality education for all.

"Education is more than a right, education is a remedy. In a world gripped by crises, education can be a pathway to growth and a stepping stone toward peace."- Rania Al Abdullah

Happy #EducationDay

Tech Girls Gets Nominated for World Summit On The Information Society Prizes 2019.

Tech Girls, a project designed to empower marginalized and vulnerable adolescent girls with ICT and digital skills, encourage girls to enroll in STEM subjects as well as provide them with mentorship support, has been nominated for the World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2019.

The project initiated by Save Our Needy, has empowered more than 250 girls in Nigeria since 2017 to date.

WSIS Prizes is a unique international contest developed to create an effective mechanism to evaluate and recognize individuals, governments, civil society, local, regional and international agencies, research institutions and private-sector companies for outstanding success in implementing development oriented strategies that leverage the power of ICTs as an enabler of development.  

The WSIS Prizes contest serves as the platform for identifying and showcasing the success stories across the WSIS Action Lines defined in the Geneva Plan of Action and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also provides us with models that can be replicated in the interests of empowering the community at the local level, providing everyone with an opportunity to participate in the contest and, most importantly, recognizing the efforts made by stakeholders to contribute to the development of society and their commitment to achievement of both the WSIS goals and SDGs.

Please we need your vote for Tech Girls to be selected among the winning projects.

Steps To Vote:

1. Go to the following link: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2019/Vote

2. Register as a new user

3. Log in to your account

 4. Go to Vote and then click on “Voting Form”

5. Vote in each of 18 categories (only then is your vote valid!) That means you start by voting in category AL C1. 

Tech Girls has been nominated in the category 3 - AL C3. 

Kindly note that there is another Tech-Girls, a project in Charlottesville, USA and another Tech Girls Advocacy Program in other categories. PLEASE kindly ensure that you vote for Tech Girls, a project in Nigeria CATEGORY 3- AL C3.

Together, we can empower more girls with technology and digital skills in Nigeria!

THANK YOU!

#WSIS  #ICT4SDG