NAS Embarks On Projects To Mark International Literacy Day

The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity), Sahara Deck, (Abuja City Centre) have embarked on numerous projects aimed at promoting the ability to read and write in commemoration of the 2023 International Literacy Day, themed, “Empowering Communities Through Literacy”.

The association’s Capoon, Sahara Deck, Olamide Oni, made this known recently in Abuja.

Oni who noted that societies which have made tremendous progress in the course of human history, are those that paid great attention and made investment in the education of it’s people, said same cannot be said for Nigeria.

“Within the Abuja City Center, where we operate, we have noted that attaining literacy especially among the young people is still a long way off the mark. With the proliferation of IDP camps, street hawking and rising cases of out of school children, we need to work extra hard to attain a respectable level of literacy in the country and the FCT in particular.”

We call on the Minister of FCT to take Education as a priority area in his administration. It is our belief that with deliberate efforts geared at addressing issues around the identified areas, we will set in motion a chain of events that will guarantee that the literacy level of the citizens in the FCT improves significantly,” he stated.

Oni lamented the poor state of public schools at the primary and secondary levels, and added that most of them are poorly staffed and lack the needed infrastructure.

According to Oni, Sahara Deck had previously embarked on numerous projects aimed at promoting the ability to read and write. Some of these projects; Adopt a Child School Campaign; to assist indigent students in care
homes to get education.

Providing learning materials at the Abuja home for children in Karu, renovation of classroom and installation of boards and educative materials at in GSS Kuje,and povision of educational items to School of the blind, Jabi, Abuja.