Commissioner of education, Lagos State, Folashade Adefisayo, says investment by private sector in early childhood development centre would go a long way in addressing the over 13.5 million out-of-school children challenge in Nigeria.
Adefisayo commended Slum2school partnership effort with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Ministry of Education to enrolled 1,487 out-of- school children into public private schools.
The commissioner stated this in Lagos at the commissioning of three early childhood development centres in Anglican Primary School, Makoko.
Speaking at the event, she said this development was exciting, sustainable and durable, saying, “This project is an exciting, sustainable and durable one. We will certainly start to invest more in our schools. What we aim to do now is to start to repair lots of our schools that are in bad shape, which is starting off in a couple of weeks.
“We aim at employing more teachers over 10,000-15000 teachers will be spread across public schools in Nigeria.”
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Otto Orondaam, founder/ executive director, Slum2school, said the primary goal was to adopt and reform the primary education centre, noting, “We work hand in hand with the government, to see how we can reform public-private schools to modern public-private schools not just in Lagos but in other parts of the country.
“More so, we are trying to see how we can work out these policies, see that the government and other private sectors take responsibility so that every Nigerian child gets a quality education, thereby subjecting the rate of illiteracy.
“We are a group of individuals who refuses to sit and complain but to work with the realities we see in our society. We ensure that we build this nation into what we want it to be.
“This is not a one off programme, we have been into this since 2012 precisely 7 years. We have supported over 55,000 children from Lagos to Port Harcourt, Abuja, Ibadan, Borno and other parts of the country and our team has grown to over 10,000 persons.
