The Community Led Collective Action for Girls Education (C-CAGE) project is conceptualized to address the root causes of barriers to girl child enrolment and retention in public primary and secondary schools in Numan, Song and Maiha Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Intervention Projects
Key Achievements
The Centre under this project built the capacity of 150 education stakeholders through training on leadership, Advocacy and the understanding of community development through girl education.
Stakeholders afterwards, stepped down the training to community members and leaders.
Maiha stakeholders raised the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand Naira, to organize a town hall meeting and the step-down training.
Many residents keyed into it and took up the challenge to send their daughters back to school. A total of 104 girls were enrolled back to school. Out of which were, 4 girls who got pregnant and were accepted back to school.
Prior to the training most community leaders felt the education of boys was of more value compared to that of the girl child. After several interactions, training meetings and advocacies.
The Centre created 7 safe spaces called in local dialect Masu Son Ilimi (Advocate/Lovers of Education). The 254 girls in the safe space are taught English, Mathematics and how to advocate for their right to education.
