The National Child Protection Network with the support of SOS Children’s Villages, UNICEF and Zamfara State Ministry for Women Affairs and Social Development, weekend, conducted a two-day stakeholders’ meeting to review and validate guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children Document in the state.
Speaking during the review exercise, Sunday, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Aisha MZ expressed state government’s commitment to partner with non-governmental organizations willing to bring a positive development that would benefit people of the state.
“Zamfara state government has improved the quality of health care delivery, education, and social infrastructure for the betterment of good people of the state.”
The commissioner further said the state government has constructed standard almajiri schools in three senatorial districts for the acceleration of both Islamic and Western education.
In her speech, the chairperson of the Technical Working Group and also director of the ministry, Hajiya Farida Abdulrazak Tigana, stated that the aims of reviewing the document in the state, is to find ways on how to give alternative care to the vulnerable children.
She also urged the stakeholders to document those children whose parents could not to be found.