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(Mrs
Amaechi in Action )
Wife of
Rivers State Governor Dame Judith
Amaechi says the governor’s wives
meeting with the nation’s first lady
Dame Patience Jonathan
is intended
to foster unity among the women with a
view to improving the wellbeing of the
family as well as promote economic and
political empowerment for women. Mrs
Amaechi in a statement signed by her
Media Assistant Dike Bekwele said
the role of the women in stabilising the
polity and promoting sustainable
peace as they build up to the 2011
election can never be
over-emphasized. She stated that the
governors’ wives are desirous of using
their potentials as mothers to bring
lasting peace and build
bridges
across the nation. According to her “As
women, we are prepared now than
ever before to use our potentials to
contribute to bringing lasting peace in
the country especially in our
communities where we anticipate crisis”.
She further
stated that the wives of governors have
renewed their commitment and resolved to
use their NGOs to identify the pressing
needs of
communities with a view to initiating
programmes that will meet the aspiration
of the people.
She commended
the President’s wife for a bold
initiative towards the political and
economic empowerment of the women and
expressed
optimism that
more women will participate in elective
position in 2011 election.
The nation’s
first lady in a meeting with wives of
governors and deputy governors charged
them to encourage women to seek elective
position in 2011 with the aim of
actualizing 35 per cent representation
as enshrined in the nation gender policy
and enthroned political and economic
empowerment.
MRS AMAECHI LAMENTS HIGH RATE OF CHILD SCHOOL DROPOUTS
Wife of Rivers State Governor Dame Judith Amaechi has decried
the high rate of children who dropped out of school due to financial
difficulty.
Mrs Amaechi stated this Tuesday while laying the foundation stone for
the Empowerment Support Initiative model nursery school and flag off of the ESI
nursery schools in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers
State.
The governor’s wife lamented that
despite the nation’s huge resources, over 10 million Nigerian children are said
to be out of school, adding that children without nursery and early education
tend to drop out of school early. According to her “statistics
revealed that 10 million Nigerian children are out of school while children
without early nursery education are vulnerable to withdrawal from school early, we
must rise against
this trend”.
Mrs Amaechi who also is the founder,
Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) a non-governmental organization that initiated
early
child education in 319 wards of Rivers State and 50 wards currently in academic
session said the Akuku Toru LGA is the first Riverine and rural local government
area to flag off its early child education.
She stated that ESI nursery schools
will enable the children to have proper foundation and build their moral
rectitude that will usher them to fit into the model primary and secondary
schools built by the Rivers State
Government.
Earlier, the governor’s
wife paid a courtesy call on the Amanyanabo of Abonnema Chief Morgan Opuwaru
Dokubo Bob-Manuel and solicited the support of the traditional institution
towards the education of the child.
In her address wife of the Chairman
of Akuku Toru Local Government Mrs Fayeofori Awoyesuku said the early child
education will dissuade the children from societal vices that will debase and
devalue their future as well as endanger the society.
Mrs Awoyesuku said, the nursery
schools will also serve as adult education centres to enable parents appreciate
mass literacy and encourage their children to go to school.
Chairman of the Council Paul
Awoyesuku said the local government will partner with ESI to complete the
permanent site of the nursery school within one year to encourage high pupil
enrolment.
ESI’s administrator Nowa Omoregbe revealed that
over 1,900 pupil are at present registered in the
ESI model nursery schools in five local government areas and expressed optimism that
all other local government areas yet to begin academic exercise will flag off soon.
The event was attended by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly
and his wife, members of the State Assembly, as well as the State Executive
Council among other dignitaries.
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