In its bid to fund mass literacy between the citizens and to tackle out of school challenges in Ogun Declare, the Governor Dapo Abiodun administration, by path of the Agency for Mass and Lifelong Education, has taken its campaign against illiteracy to promote places and motor parks in the declare.
Appreciating the government for upgrading their declare from illiterate to being literates, Christianah Ogunleye and Olatunde Ajoke, of Ayetoro centre, as well as Jimoh Quadri of Itele centre, testified that earlier than attending the adult school, they could not read or outline but presently, they could read, compose and speak publicly.
Odulesi asserted that education remained a powerful instrument for individual and socio-economic development to complete greatness in life, adding that humans who could read and outline would have their lives transformed.
The campaign was held at Remo North, Yewa North and Ijebu-East Regional Government Areas of the condition.
“I wish for to spark our adults and youths, particularly humans who are incapacitated to settle to study a exchange to maximise the opportunities of free Vocational and Skills training provided by the government and understand any address of their alternative,” Odulesi said.
She urged them to enroll at the centre closer to their environment, saying textbooks and other writing materials would be provide at no charge.
Speaking during the sensitisation drive, the director in the agency, Abosede Odulesi, encouraged people that had missed the expectation of attending school to take the advantage of the free adult literacy and skills acquisition initiative of the government.
She moreover disclosed that government had provided opportunities for unlike vocations, such as garment making, hair dressing, catering and hospitality, shoe making, cosmetology, and barbing, between others, for society who could be interested to understand one commerce or the other.
Too, a beneficiary of the initiative, Juliet Akinleye, confirmed that the training was free together with plenty equipment supplied at no price.
Ogun Govt intensifies campaign to tackle illiteracy, out-of-school menace
Source: Ogun Govt intensifies campaign to tackle illiteracy, out-of-school menace
