NGO trains 50 litreracy facilitators in Ebonyi

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Combating illiteracy in Nigeria: Adults learning to read and write

By Douglas Okoro

Education Today for Sustainable Development Initiative (ETSDI), a non-governmental organisation, has embarked on the training of 50 facilitators of mass litreracy, adult and non formal education in Ebonyi.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the facilitators were drawn from different centres of the Ebonyi mass litreracy education for the programme, which began on Friday.

In an address of welcome, the National Coordinator of the group, Miss Ijeoma Ekwueme, said that the objective of the training was to improve the skills and capacity of the facilitators in modern skills in technicalities for efficient service delivery.

According to her, the strategic focus of the organisation is to provide non-formal education and life skills for women and out-of-school girls, those who have never been to school and those who left early because of early or unwanted pregnancy or child marriage.

She further…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria