“My name is Agal Yunuwa, I am 13 years old and I am in Junior Secondary School in Askira Uba, Borno State.

My parents are both farmers with seven children. Because of the economic hardship in the country, sending me and my siblings to school has not been easy for my parents.

The Girls for Girls (G4G) project has helped me and many girls in the community a lot. The project has given girls like me support. In my school, we were given school uniforms, school shoes, books, pen, pencils and other learning materials. The project also gave us some items for our personal use like sanitary pads, body cream, soaps, toilet tissues, antiseptic, hair combs and other things. These items they gave us, is to help us to keep our bodies clean. We were happy to get the sanitary pads, since most of our parents cannot afford to buy us pads.

In the school, they trained our teachers and some parents on safe schools and gave our teachers some teaching materials like textbooks and a class register.

The project has also made our classrooms better. Two classrooms that were in bad shape were painted and now we can have classes in a beautiful looking classroom that is better and stronger.

Other girls and I are being trained in other skills too, some learnt beadmaking, hat making, tailoring. I learnt tailoring and now I can make simple clothes for myself and if I continue to learn I hope to become self employed by the time I finish secondary school.

I can hope for things like that now and I’m so grateful! I love Christmas very much because it is a time that we all stay home to celebrate with my parents and siblings. There’s no school and no farming and though my parents don’t have much we get to spend time together and visit our relatives and share what we have together. I am looking forward to the Christmas celebration.

I am happy to be part of the G4G and I hope that more girls in community can benefit too,” shares Agal. Violence caused by Boko Haram, in North-Eastern Nigeria killed tens of thousands, displaced millions of people, damaged the country’s economy and led to the deterioration of the education system. The gift of a School Kit, has made a lasting change for many students like Agal in the Girls4Girls program.

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