A girl-child advocacy group, Gender mobile initiative has called on the federal government, civil societies, as well as individuals to perform their roles in ensuring that the girl-child is empowered with skills and quality education.
Speaking during a national dialogue held to commemorate the 2018 day of the girl-child, Lagos state team leader for Gender mobile initiative, Abiodun Ajayi stressed on the importance of empowering the girl-child with quality education and necessary skills.
According to him, every girl child is valuable to every society and should be given utmost attention.
His words: “There’s a need for us to protect the image and interest of the girl child because they are valuable to us. Every girl child is valuable to every society and if we don’t place priority on that, that means we are calling on failure, we are calling for a society that is not well developed because they are a tool to developing every society.
“So, I am calling on the government, I’m calling on the CSOs, I’m calling on individuals. It’s very important that individuals also play very vital roles in ensuring that we empower our girls with skills, quality education because they are members of the society and we can’t shy away from the fact that they belong to the society and with them, I believe we will have a better society”.
Themed “with her, a skilled girl force”, the dialogue was primarily aimed at bringing together key players to formulate a document that will help safeguard the interest of the girl child.
Ajayi who was also the convener of the event disclosed that the group is working on taking all street girls back to school, adding that a coalition has been formed to achieve this.
“We are working on bringing back all the street girls back to school and we are following it up to the end of this course. Every one of us here at this dialogue, we formed a coalition to ensure that we go to the ministries to implement these policies, to ensure that we have a very good and conducive youth friendly centre for our girls to patronize”, he added.