In a bit to
educate the girl child the government of Ebonyi state built
27 pilot schools in the year 2009
14 for girls and 13 for boy plus
an additional GTC to help achieve these aims, they even went
further to make education from primary school level to junior secondary school
level free of charge
There
is an adage that goes, “No woman, No
nations” these goes along way in explaining the importance of the girl
child in national development. It is also said that a nation without women is
in a shamble that is why the importance
of girl child towards national development can
never be
over emphasized
In some parts of this country, especially
northern part, age long religious and
cultural beliefs have affected girl child education and made the
education of the girl child in that part of the country to be abysmally low,
despite the federal governments universal
basic education programme launched with fun fare upon this problem,
international organizations have stepped up efforts to stimulate the interest
of both parents and young girls into acquiring the western education as well as
developing the committees
Every girl child
should say “No” to this age long religion and belief and
embrace the innovation western education as the most important factor used by
man to conquer his environment, but in some committees it has charted his destiny miles apart from
indices of modern development in our immediate
environment the level of
ignorance has reduced them to perpetual
hewers of wood and drawers of
water, a situation that has made their lives and existence miserable.
the world which is a global village is
characterized by many things of which education is one of them, hence education
should not be relegated