Foundation organises quiz competition for secondary schools

A non-governmental organization, Youths Empowerment Foundation (YEF) has organised a quiz competition for girls in some public junior secondary schools in Lagos state. This is as part of it goal project aimed at inculcating teenage girls with life skills, Financial literacy, sex education and sport.

The event, which was held at the sickle cell centre, LUTH, Idi-Araba was attended by more than 15 public junior schools in Lagos state where the goal project is currently being executed and carried out.

Speaking on the essence of the event which was one of the series of programmes organised by the foundation to commemorate the day of the girl child, the executive secretary of the Foundation, Mrs. Iwalola Jimoh, noted that the quiz competition was staged to unable the foundation be aware how much of the goals project curriculum and and teaching the girls have learned and understand.

Mrs. Jimoh added that the foundation had trained more than two thousand girls in the last seven years in life skills, finance literacy, sport and sex education in more than twenty secondary secondary schools in Lagos, Abuja and Ibadan in partnership with standard chartered bank.

She said: “The quiz competition was to see how they are inculcating what they have learned in the goal program curriculum so far it is about a fellow up to our last programme on the day of the girl child. We want to see how they have learned in the goal curriculum in the last two, three years and you can see the improvement in the girls. This shows that if you invest in the girl child they can become good, girls, good ladies and mothers,” Iwalola Jimoh said.

Also speaking at the event, the head Corporate Affairs and Branding, Standard Chartered Bank, Joke Adun, stated that there had been significant improvement in several of the girls which indicated that the goal teaching had impacted on their lives.

She stressed that the bank would continues to support the goal initiative, adding that it was working at modalities which would enable it give financial support to some of the girls after the vocational training.

“We are happy with the progress made by this girls, they are more confident after learning the goals teaching it means what they are been taught is good and our investment is working and we hope others companies can invest in the girl child too,” Adun said.

Ontological Junior secondary school, surulere, emerge winner of the quiz contest, while Herbert Macualay College, Ebute-Metta and Clegg junior secondary school, surulere came second and third respectively.

Iniobong Iwok