Source: All Africa
The UNICEF Girl Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3) enrolment campaign seeks to enlist about one million girls in school in five northern states, the UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Katsina State, Shehu Mohammad, said yesterday.

He said in Katsina that the campaign was aimed at boosting school enrolment as there were over 10 million of out- of-school children in the country.

According to him, last year's household mapping in Katsina recorded 620,000 out-of-school children.

"The reasons why children, especially girls, are out of school in the North are varied and rooted in the socio-cultural and economic environment which causes barriers and bottlenecks to the educational success of children", he said.

He said education is the right of every child, adding that any child brought forward by their parents for enrolment should be accepted and registered and should not be turned back for lack of space.

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