Getting out-of-school children back to classrooms in north-west Nigeria
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Samuel Kaalu, Communication Specialist, UNICEF Nigeria
KATSINA, 22 APRIL 2021 - Inside one of the classrooms at the Kafur Model Primary School, 14-year-old Majidda Hussain and her classmates pay attention to a lesson with obvious enthusiasm.
Majidda is not only the first to raise her hand to respond to a question from the teacher, she goes to the board to show she understands the topic. With a stick, she points to each word on the board and reads it out while the class responds as a group.
Just two years earlier, when a lack of money forced Majidda to drop out of school, this wouldn’t have seemed possible. While Majidda had long dreamed of going to university and becoming a doctor, she instead became a statistic: just one of the millions of school-age children in Nigeria not in school – most of them from Nigeria’s north.