GBV: Adamawa State, UNICEF train 2,260 adolescents
The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, in collaboration with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), trained 2,260 adolescents on Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
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The state’s Programme Officer, Adolescent Youths and Sexual Reproductive Health, Hajiya Fadimatu Hamman-Joda, disclosed in an interview in Yola, that the trainees were carefully selected across the 226 electoral wards of the state, adding that 10 persons were registered from each ward.
She explained that the participants were sensitised on the dangers of deviant behaviours like rape, drug abuse, alcoholism and unnecessary quarrels, among others.
“The trainees would be deployed to the 21 local government areas of the state to use the knowledge acquired to mobilise 2,203 adolescents.
“The programme targets to cover 4,000 adolescents by the year 2024.”
She, however, said inadequate logistics was affecting implementation of the programme.
She lauded the state government and UNICEF for supporting the programme.
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