KDC Foundation, a Kano-based non-governmental organization, has mobilized stakeholders in education to provide a standard curriculum for the Tsangaya education system in Kano.
Speaking at a one-day forum organized by the Foundation, its Director, Mr. Khalifa Usman, explained that the aim was to set standards for Tsangaya education.
He said that the foundation had piloted embedding formal education into Tsangaya education in many local governments in Kano, as well as in six Northern states.
According to him, “the aim of the programme is to empower, educate and liberate the Almajiris in Tsangaya schools, while creating learning and economic opportunities’’.
The project, he said, was tagged “Community Library Project,’’ which is a reform initiative of the Almajiri education system.
The Chairman of the forum, Dr. Gwani Yahuza, stressed the need for indigenous organizations like the KDC, to venture into the Almajiri system of education, to compliment the efforts of development partners.
“Many development partners have done a lot of surveys on the Tsangaya education system, yet there is need for more awareness and advocacy by indigenous organizations,’’ he said.
He noted that the Almajiri Tsangaya education system was not based on any specific standards, a situation that needed to be changed.
Yahuza also called on organizations to educate parents on their roles as parents, in providing quality welfare and Islamic education to their children in the Tsangaya schools.
He pledged support to the development of a standard curriculum to guide the Almajiri Tsangaya system of education in Nigeria, through the KDC foundation.
In his remarks, Dr. Kamilu Ibrahim, who represented the Faculty of Education, Bayero University, at the forum also pledged to fully participate in developing the curriculum.
He said it was a collective obligation of all stakeholders, and the faculty would put in its best to ensure the success of the project.
The representative of the American Embassy at the forum, Madison Coloney, also pledged continuous support to KDC to achieve the set goal. (NAN).
