The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) on Tuesday signed a N116 million ($801, 000) grant award.
The grant is a move by the U.S. government to provide additional assistance to the internally displaced populations in Jimeta and Yola, Adamawa State, the U.S. embassy Charge d’Affaires, Maria Brewer said. “Education positively affects people’s economic development and general health, while also advancing civil rights,” she said.
The grant will provide education services for children and youths living in IDP camps and host communities through the AUN Student Empowerment through Language, Literary and Arithmetic (STELLAR) programme, to improve literary and numeracy for 20, 000 vulnerable, at risk children, orphans of IDPS and host communities in Adamawa State
