UNICEF Empowers 1.8m Nigerian Children In 4 Years

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says it has empowered over 1.8 million Nigerian children with learning materials in the last four years.

The education specialist, UNICEF Nigeria, Mrs Yetunde Oluwatosin, made the claim in a chart with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos State.

Oluwatosin was speaking on the funds Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), assuring of continued support through the FLN approach to enhance early child education in Nigeria.

NAN reports that FLN was an innovative classroom and home learning solution.

“So, we introduce and support states to implement the teachings at the right level approach aimed to lay a very good education foundation for the Nigerian child.

“The idea is to ensure that the children achieve or attain the desired level in their grade with the teaching, and learning materials, been curriculum-aligned, high quality and inclusive.

“As the child progresses into primary school, giving them an approach of using their mother tongue, they can learn and get the literacy and numeracy growth as it should.

The UNICEF specialist said that such evidence was being used in different countries, citing India, where the context was similar to that of Nigeria.

She said that the approaches had been piloted, and tested and they showed great results.

Oluwatosin urged the government to strengthen its collaboration with UNICEF by allocating more funds to the education sector from the basic level and early education of a child.