FCTA takes education curriculum to vulnerable children

The FCTA Women Affairs Secretariat and the Peace Institute has kicked off the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) camp at the Abuja Children’s Home in Karu in the FCT aimed at ensuring that vulnerable children, especially orphans, are not left behind in accessing quality education and useful skills. The Mandate Secretary of Women […]

The FCTA Women Affairs Secretariat and the Peace Institute has kicked off the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) camp at the Abuja Children’s Home in Karu in the FCT aimed at ensuring that vulnerable children, especially orphans, are not left behind in accessing quality education and useful skills.

The Mandate Secretary of Women Affairs, Dr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, said that the camp was the administration’s dedication to not leaving any child behind.

Professor Hauwa Ibrahim, the founder of the camp, shared the origin of the initiative, tracing it back to her invitation by a former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to train rescued Chibok Girls.

Professor Hauwa said that the alternative to violence was to imbibe in people a superior mind set, starting with children, because if “we catch them young, we might be able to get it right.”

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Speaking further, Prof Hauwa said that the STEAM camp was just one out of many other projects of the Peace Institute, but that it was the major one which had brought foreign students into Nigeria in the last five years.

She said, “We have been to five states in Nigeria, twice in Nigeria. This year, we were invited by the FCT Women Affairs Secretary, Honourable Dr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, and I am here with five students, four from the University of Rome where I teach, while one is from Penn University in the United States of America.”

City & Crime further reports that the STEAM camp will conclude on Friday, August 9, 2024, with a certificate presentation ceremony. The project will then move to Gwako in Gwagwalada Area Council next week and Karmajiji in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).