Nigeria: NYSC, Mercy Corps Partner On Adolescent Girls' Education

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian agency towards the implementation of a project tagged: "Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE)".
The partnership is expected to involve the engagement of female Corps members to deliver extra hours of classes to girls in schools that have been selected for the programme in the affected states.
At the occasion, the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, said the presence of the scheme in all the nooks and crannies of the country makes it an attractive implementation partner for projects of such nature.
Olawumi, who stressed that the issues of development should not be left to the government alone, commended the Mercy Corps for its good works in Nigeria.
The director-general further remarked that partnering with Mercy Corps would enhance the NYSC Scheme's visibility and also help the Corps in achieving its goals.
While assuring of the scheme's commitment to the success of the project, he charged the Mercy Corps to ensure that it played its own part of the deal as contained in the Memorandum of Understanding.
In her address, the Country Director of the Mercy Corps, Iveta Ouvry, said the objective of the organisation, which is working in over 42 countries, was to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build, secure productive and just communities among other foci.
Ouvry said the partnership with NYSC to educate Nigerian girls was meant to empower the target group as part of effort to transform communities.
Also, the Acting Director of Community Development Service and Special Projects in the NYSC Headquarters, Mrs. Victoria Okakwu, had explained that under the project, trained Corps members would put in two hours every week to teach young girls in science subjects. She added that they would also coordinate the girls into saving groups and monitor their progress.
The programme seeks to improve the learning outcomes and economic status of marginalised adolescent girls aged sixteen to nineteen in the northern Nigerian states of Kano and Kaduna as well as the Federal Capital Territory and the Metropolitan city of Lagos.

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