A group, Khalifa Dankadai Charity (KDC) Foundation, says it has developed a programme to empower 6,000 pupils of non-formal Qur’anic school locally called “Almajiri’’ in six states in the country.
The Hausa word Almajiri is derived from the Arabic word “Al-Muhajirun,” which refers to a person who migrated from his home to study Qur’an in a non-formal school called “Tsangaya.”
Almajiri has been a common term in northern Nigeria, which literally refers to a young person who begs on the streets and does not attend secular school.
The Project Coordinator, Khalifa Dankadai, made the disclosure during Ramadan fast break with social influencers in Kano.
He said that the curriculum was designed to reform the Tsangaya school system in Katsina, Kano, Niger, Jigawa, Zamfara and the Sokoto States.
Dankadai said the programme would be implemented in selected 60 schools across the region, adding that 1,000 pupils would benefit from the programme in each of the participating states.
“The curriculum is to establish a standardized, integrated and skills-based learning system through the Community Library Project, which is being implemented in collaboration with the Nigerian government.
“The collaboration is between the federal, state and local government councils and relevant stakeholders with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja,” he said.
Dankadai said the stakeholders’ engagement was to interact with social media influencers and to fashion out ways to enhance mobilisation to fast track sustainable reform of the Almajiri system of education.
In his remarks, Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on Digital and New Media, lauded the gesture and pledged to support the foundation to enable it to achieve its objectives.
On his part, Sha’aban Sharada (APC – Kano Municipal Federal Constituency) reiterated the commitment of the National Assembly to make sound legislations to facilitate sustainable reform of the Tsangaya school system.
Sharada, who is also the Chairman of, the House Committee on Security, restated the government’s commitment to protecting the lives and property of the people
