No fewer than 441,126 school aged girls are out of school in Adamawa

NO fewer than 441,126 school-aged girls in Adamawa State have been forced out of schools due to insurgency, poverty, high rate of under-aged pregnancy and apathy for girl-child education by their parents, a report has revealed being gathered by VAM. 

school girl becoming parent 

According to research into girl-child education released in Yola weekend, insurgency, communal clashes and other social unrests contributed to the large percentage. 

It indicated that parents of such girls resorted to using them for hawking or domestic chores. 

The research report of a baseline study on a Community-led Collective Action for Girls Education, C-CAGE, also indicated a preference for Quranic education by families who view western education as being for Christians and negative peer influence, as other factors lowering rate of girl-child education in the state. 

The research, commissioned by the African Centre for Leadership Strategy and Development, Centre, LSD, and supported by the Malala Fund, also indicated that endemic poverty could rubbish free education for a girl at the point of an external examination requiring a fee.