The United Nations Children’s Fund has
signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a marketing communications
agency, Yellow Brick Road, on the Every Child in School campaign.
The campaign, the duo said, would
mobilise Nigerian youths to become advocates for poor children and call
on the government to commit more money to primary education in the 2019
budget.
This was made known in a statement by
the Director of Strategy for YBR, Ms Nnenna Onyewuchi, who said that the
campaign would primarily be aimed that reducing the number of
out-of-school children in the country.
Her words, “Research reveals that more
than 10 million primary school age children in Nigeria do not attend
school. That number makes Nigeria number one in sub-Saharan Africa – and
the world – for the number of out-of-school children.
The vast majority
of these children are out of school because their families cannot
afford to send them to school. Although the Nigerian government passed
the Universal Basic Education Act in 2004, under-investment and uneven
implementation have left millions of children without access to adequate
primary education.
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