No fewer than 200 public secondary schools in Ekiti State have benefited from a World Bank project under the auspices of Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment Programme (AGILE).
The target beneficiaries of the project are adolescent girls from age 10 to 20 years in participating states. Ekiti State was allocated $25 million.
The AGILE Coordinator in the state, Mrs. Yewande Adesua, who disclosed this, at the weekend, in Ado-Ekiti, during an engagement with heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and parastatals, said secondary schools in the state benefited in the areas of provision of learning equipment, construction of toilets, classrooms, provision of instructional materials and training, among others.
Adesua said protection of the rights of the girl-child and boy were taken into consideration to make AGILE programmes achieve its required aims and objectives, as well as the training of over 200 teachers.
In his remarks, the Head of Service, Bamidele Agbede, said the interactive programme was a welcome development that would educate heads of government agencies, ministries, departments and parastatals across the state.
He noted that the programme would arouse the consciousness of the officials that AGILE projects are ongoing.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Dr. Folakemi Olomojobi, said the extent of the interactive programme was to create symbiotic relationship with MDAs and parastatals on how to improve on execution of AGILE programmes in the state.
Others heads of ministries that spoke at the interactive programme promised to work with AGILE to check duplication of projects in schools, saying this would give room for more schools to benefit from the World Bank project.
