A teacher at Concordia College, Yola and 2020 Maltina Teacher of the Year award winner, Olubunmi Anani, has won an international grant worth US$10,000 (about N7.5 million) from the Muhammad Sanusi 11 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Initiative challenge.
She won the education grant with her project, titled: “Quality Education for All,” which is designed to empower vulnerable out-of-school girls and child mothers in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.
Speaking to Nigerian Tribune in an interview on Wednesday, the award winner, Anani, described the grant as a huge enabler that would assist her and her nine other colleagues from different countries in sub-Saharan Africa, who also won $10,000 grant each in making quality education easily accessible to children from the low-income homes and those living in rural communities in their respective countries.
She said her research work shows that out-of-school children in the six Northeastern states of Nigeria, namely: Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba are in three to four categories.
These categories, according to her, are those who have never been to school, those who go to school once in a while, those who dropped out of school, those who married as teenagers and without any skill and have now been abandoned by their husbands.
Anani explained that the insecurity situation in that part of the country largely contributed to this burden with many families being displaced and children moving from one internally displaced persons (IDP) camps to another.
She said she believes the grant would go a long way to bring quality education to these categories of children and teenage mothers in the zone.
She promised to make judicious use of the grant by ensuring the project meets its purpose, which is expressed in SDGs 4 and 5 and the title of her project.
She said she has up to 25 persons most of whom are teachers, who are working with her as volunteers to execute the project.
Anani, a graduate of the University of Lagos(UNILAG), Akoka, commended the donor for the humanitarian effort, saying it will certainly improve the quality of life of not only the direct beneficiaries but many others in and outside the region.
She also thanked Nigerian Breweries Plc not only for identifying her through the MTOY contest in 2020 as the best Nigerian teacher for the year but also for being supportive of her various projects since she won the award.
Reacting, the Corporate Affairs Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Sade Morgan, said in a statement, that NB is excited to celebrate the award winner, particularly for her creativity, diligence and consistency in her teaching profession and her giving back to society.
She said the company is proud to identify with her and other winners of the Maltina Teacher-of-the-Year Award.
She said the company would continue to support Nigerian teachers and the education sector in any way possible.
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