The Acting Country Director of Save The Children Foundation, Mr Kwame Boate has disclosed that nearly two million Nigerian children lost one or both parents to AIDS- related disease saying that one in five children dies before their fifth birthday.
Save The Children which is a non-governmental organisation works in 120 countries with its primary focus on health and nutrition, education, hunger and livelihoods, child rights governance and child protection.
He stated this in Abuja yesterday on the sideline of events organised by the organisation to commemorate the 2016 edition of Global Day of Action with the theme, “ Every Last Child”.
Boate further revealed that about 40 per cent of Nigeria’s children were school drop-outs stressing that the foundation’s target was to ensure that about 15 million children globally have access to education and quality health care services by 2030.
He noted that the foundation worked closely with partners and donor agencies especially in UK, US, Denmark and Sweden to develop sustainable and replicable solutions to ensure that children receive decent basic necessities of life to reach their potentials.
On their programmes for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), he said, “ We are providing food baskets to households caught up in the situation and we are considering some educational programmes in Borno which is the heart of IDPs.The Acting Country Director of Save The Children Foundation, Mr Kwame Boate has disclosed that nearly two million Nigerian children lost one or both parents to AIDS- related disease saying that one in five children dies before their fifth birthday.
Save The Children which is a non-governmental organisation works in 120 countries with its primary focus on health and nutrition, education, hunger and livelihoods, child rights governance and child protection.
He stated this in Abuja yesterday on the sideline of events organised by the organisation to commemorate the 2016 edition of Global Day of Action with the theme, “ Every Last Child”.
Boate further revealed that about 40 per cent of Nigeria’s children were school drop-outs stressing that the foundation’s target was to ensure that about 15 million children globally have access to education and quality health care services by 2030.
He noted that the foundation worked closely with partners and donor agencies especially in UK, US, Denmark and Sweden to develop sustainable and replicable solutions to ensure that children receive decent basic necessities of life to reach their potentials.
On their programmes for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), he said, “ We are providing food baskets to households caught up in the situation and we are considering some educational programmes in Borno which is the heart of IDPs.
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