The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, has inaugurated a campaign to enrol 145,553 out-of-school children in schools, under the World Bank-supported, Better Education Service Delivery for All, BESDA programme.
Board’s Desk Officer Area-1 Lead, BESDA, Esther Jibji, made this known at the opening of a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation on enrolment of out-of-school children in Kaduna.
She explained that BESDA, which began in the state in 2019 was specifically designed to address the menace of out-of-school children.
The officer also explained that the board has enrolled over 500,000 out-of-school children in school in the first phase of the programme, of which 312,785 children have been verified by the National Population Commission.
In her remarks, Education Secretary Kaduna North Local Government Education Authority, Farida Ibrahim, described the BESDA programme as crucial to addressing the problem of out-of-school children in the state.
