The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has donated 1,350 Safe School Kits to 114 institutions and organisations in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.
Ike Onyechere, the Chairman of Exam Ethics Marshals International, an NGO, announced this in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday.
The statement explained that the donation was to boost the efforts of Federal Government and Governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States to enhance safety and security in schools.
The safe school kits contain Safe School Manual, Instructional Video DVD, Audio CD and Hand Sanitiser.
The statement said the kits would be distributed in Abuja on November 24 as the climax of the safe school capacity building training/workshop also sponsored by UNESCO.
Onyechere listed 13 primary schools, 10 Junior Secondary Schools, 10 Senior Secondary Schools, State Universal Education Board, State Emergency Management Agency and the Nigeria Union of Teachers as beneficiaries.
He added that the Nigeria Union Journalists and the Nigeria Teachers Institutes in each of the three states would receive the kits and participate in the training.
The statement said: “The safe school kits and safe school workshop are components of the Safe School Manual Project being implemented under a Public Private Partnership framework by Exam Ethics Marshals International.
“The SSMP which was initiated in 2011 is implemented with the support and collaboration of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Fire Service, and National Emergency Management Agency.
“The objective of the project is to provide teachers, parents and students with comprehensive body of knowledge on safe school skills in a simple straight forward language and format that make for easy understanding, application and reference.
“The project is also to empower school communities with specific safe school dos and don’ts that will enhance their safety and ability to assist security.”
It said that the battle for safe schools “is a matter of life or death, and a challenge of collective responsibility that calls for collective action.
“No stakeholder has the luxury of sitting back and watching because no person knows where the next attack will go off or who the next victim will be.
“This is why UNESCO stands highly commended for sponsoring the distribution of safe school kits to schools in the states with emergency rule.”
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