The Teach A Child/Sponsor A Child Project (TAC-SAC), started by the Rochas Foundation on January 24, 2023, aims to enroll one million out-of-school children. The Rochas Foundation urged well-intentioned Nigerians to join the rest of the world in commemorating the 2023 International Day of Education and take action to lower the high rate of out-of-school youth.
The foundation’s Director-General, Miss Uchechi Rochas, stated that investing in people to boost the productivity of other sectors was the best investment any country could make.
She said that when the TAC-SAC project was announced, stakeholders from all spheres would become involved in the effort to address the problem of out-of-school children.
As a country, we have lost the volunteerism that has caused nearly 13.5 million children to not attend school.” Uneducated children are those who showed up at your house to commit a robbery, or they are those who are utilized in terrorist attacks.
Miss Uchechi Rochas
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With education, we can empower these 13.5 million households and 13,5 million children, which will solve the country’s main challenge. If you look at these figures, the majority of the children are female. Since empowering the girl child also empowers the nation, it is crucial that we get the kids into the classroom, she said.
H.E Rochas Okoroacha, president and founder of the foundation, stated that the nation owed it a duty to provide every kid in Nigeria, even unborn infants, with the proper education for their freedom.
We would benefit if we had one million people who could teach or sponsor a child. Of the nearly 50 million out-of-school children in Africa, 13.5 million are in Nigeria.
In Nigeria, we have constructed hotels, churches, mosques, and political parties, but not facilities that produce aspirations and desires. My opinion from around 20 years ago is that education ought to be better by now. “We have over 200 million people in Nigeria; out of this figure, if we can have one million Nigerians who can actually teach and sponsor children, then we will not have the problem of out-of-school children.”
He, therefore, said that the project would be a volunteering and mentorship program that would take all out-of-school children back to school by 2050.
One of the foundation’s former students, Mr. Patrick Odey, claimed that the decline in the number of out-of-school youngsters was being hampered by a lack of political will.
Odey urged the business sector to demonstrate its commitment in order to persuade the government to invest more in education.
Recall that on December 3, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly voted to designate January 24 as the International Day of Education.
Nigeria and the other 58 members of the United Nations jointly drafted this resolution, and its adoption demonstrated the unwavering political support for altering current laws to guarantee equitable and high-quality education for all.
The day is commemorated and celebrated all around the world to raise awareness of the value of education.
The celebration’s motto for this year is “To Invest in People, Prioritize Education.
