Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment under the State Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development,Yola has organized a sensitisation workshop for some selected journalists drawn from different media houses across the state.
The host of the sensitisation workshop and lead consultant RHAMO Multimedia Resources Center Dr. John Ngamsa said the aim of the AGILE -AF Programme is to educate parents and guidance who chooses to send their female children to hawk in the street instead of sending them to school.
Dr. Ngamsa reiterates the importance of educating a female child hence the need for partnering with the media to achieve the said goal.
Mrs. Ruth Stanley who spoke on the Understanding the Objectives of AGILE -AF and the role of the media to include creating awareness to parents and guidance on the need to educate their female children and to also serve as watch dog thereby informing the agency where its need to intervene through news and programming.
She further revealed the areas which remain the agency’s focus includes promoting social and behavioral change through communication campaigns, engagement with traditional rulers and advocacy.
Others are empowering girls with critical life skills knowledge for navigating adulthood and digital literacy skills among others.
She called for more partnership and relationship with the media.
Delivering his paper on strategies and tools for creating Effective content for AGILE -AF Mr Billy Graham recalled that over the years there are several programs on girl child education but no attention was paid to it hence the need for media partnership.
Graham hinted that Multimedia programs affect all kinds of people in the society and that its message reaches all irrespective of one’s educational background.
He called on the participants to focus on producing programs that has direct bearing on girl child well-being.
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