The Sokoto State Government has launched the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project, aimed at improving educational outcomes for adolescent girls in the State.
Governor Ahmad Aliyu, who launched the project at the Government House in Sokoto, said it was part of the State’s broader agenda to transform the education sector across board.
The governor explained that the AGILE Project’s main focal points will be enhancing access to education, life skills training, and financial support for adolescent girls.
In his address the commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education Professor Ahmed Ladan Ala commended the Governor for his commitment shown towards ensuring that Agile project becomes a reality in the State.
He said the Governor has not only fulfilled his obligations of providing the State’s counterpart funding for the project but demonstrated a great deal of political will to the development of girl child education
He added that the State government has made a pledge to provide the sum of 200,000 to each and every principal in the state which is expected to help the them in providing essential services and facilities in their immediate school environment, adding that “this is something that is unprecedented, something that has not happened, I don’t think anywhere in this country in any of the states”.
The coordinator of Agile project in the State, Dr Mansur Isa Buhari, for his part also commended the State for its involvement in the project.
He said the launch of the project will turn around the fortune of many young girls in the State, affirming that the huge investments made in the Agile project will not go in vain.
Also, as part of the flagging off event, 240 students benefited from school empowerment grants.
