USAID, AUN sign N116m IDPs grant

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) yesterday signed a N116 million grant award for the internally displaced in Jimeta and Yola, Adamawa State. The grant is a move by the U.S. government to provide additional assistance to for the internally displaced populations. U.S. Charge d’Affaires, Maria […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) yesterday signed a N116 million grant award for the internally displaced in Jimeta and Yola, Adamawa State.
The grant is a move by the U.S. government to provide additional assistance to for the internally displaced populations.
U.S. Charge d’Affaires, Maria Brewer said at the signing ceremony in Abuja yesterday that: “Education positively affects people’s economic development and general health, while also advancing civil rights.”
She added: “Where education is lacking, people are less likely to attain economic opportunity, which leads to greater poverty and, in too many places, opens the doors extremism and violence.”
Michael Harvey, USAID Mission Director signed the agreement with the President of the American University, Margee Ensign.
The grant will provide education services for children and youths living in IDP camps and host communities through the AUN Student Empowerment through Language, Literary and Arithmetic (STELLAR) programme, to improve literary and numeracy for 20, 000 vulnerable, at risk children, orphans of IDPS and host communities in Adamawa State.