- The North East Children’s Trust has unveiled the remodelled Maiduguri International School to boost education of orphans and vulnerable children affected by the conflicts in the North-East.
The North East Children’s Trust has unveiled the remodelled Maiduguri International School to boost education of orphans and vulnerable children affected by the conflicts in the North-East.
According to a statement on Tuesday, the school which has over 600students, was established as a co-educational institution in 1981.
The Vice-Chairman of NECT, Prof Hauwa Biu, at the unveiling of the project on Tuesday in Maiduguri, said the organisation had executed viable interventions to support the provision of quality education for children affected by the conflict in the zone.
Biu added that the projects were designed to upgrade the existing infrastructure, provision of learning resources and teacher capacity development programmes.
She listed the projects to include the completion of 10 blocks of classrooms, renovation of 44 classrooms, auditorium and staffroom as well as the construction of a dining hall.
Other projects are the rehabilitation and equipping of physics, chemistry, and biology laboratories and construction of 30-student capacity Information and Communication Technology centre.
Borno State Deputy Governor, Usman Kadafur, commended NECT for its support aimed at reinvigorating the education sector ravaged by the decade-long insurgency in the region.
