In celebration of the 2022 International Day of the Girl Child, the Gbaja for Tiniubu/ Shettima Presidency Project 2023 has decided to train indigent girls on information technology skills and vocational skills across the country. Speaking at the flag-off of the training scheme at New-Era Girls Secondary School and Clegg’s Girls Grammar School Surulere, Lagos, the national coordinator of the group, Lukman Oyewole, said the group will be training 100,000 girls across the country on making reusable sanitary pads to help bridge the gap of positive social inclusion occasioned by an inability to purchase the orthodox sanitary pad.
Oyewole said the group has selected 100 girls from the two schools for the training and would also donate 1,000 reusable pads to indigent girls across schools in Surulere, Constituency 1. He said: “With a population of about 21 million girls within the age 0-19 years here in Nigeria, out of a whopping 101 million National Female Population, we have on hand a very potent human capital resource that must be well harnessed with the right education, skills set and moral rectitude to navigate well as a member of the digital generation, thereby helping to build our great nation, Nigeria.”
