By Aminu Isa
On Sunday, 27th December, 2020,Danko Development Forum(DDF) a Non Governmental Organization committed to science education and primary health care will commission Science Laboratory at Government Girls’ Secondary school(GGSS), Sarkin Noma, Lokoja.
GGSS was identified as its next focus of intervention as a fallout of a public lecture on Girl Child education during the 10 year anniversary of DDF interventions in Science schools and primary health care in Lokoja metropolis.
GGSS was established in year 2002 following outcry by stakeholders in Ward E who were then concern by the high level of illiteracy and Hawking among the Girl child in especially Sarkin Noma area.
The school initially took off at the primary school site at Sarkin Noma before relocating to the present permanent site.
Even though the level of illiteracy and Hawking has reduced among the Girl Child in the area, the school lacks science laboratory and even qualified teachers in sciences,hence constrained to graduate science students.
The intervention of Danko Development Forum therefore in especially Building and equipping of Science laboratory will go along way in encouraging the students to key into sciences and helped in filling the existing gaps.
In the word of the Parent Teachers’ Association (PTA),Chairman, Mal. Zubairu Idatsu Yakubu
” Danko Development Forum is the first ever NGO that has shown presence in GGSS, Sarkin Noma”
He applauded the foresight of the forum which according to him will go along way to encourage the Girl child in the area which has suffered neglect for a long time.
Led by Alh.Bama Shehu Mundi ,Danko Development Forum has consistently been involved in interventions in equipping of science laboratories in Secondary Schools in Lokoja metropolis for the past 11 years.
The Schools that have benefitted so far in its yearly interventions includes: Local Government Secondary School, Kabawa; Al-Ansar Secondary School, Newlayout and Bishop Delisle Secondary School.The Forum has also intervened in primary health care services in the metropolis among other humanitarian services.
Dr Aminu Isah is a Lecturer,FED UNIVERSITY LOKOJA,he writes from Lokoja,Kogi State
