Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has extended the Renewed Hope Initiative’s support to Rivers schools with the distribution of iPads for digital learning and more than 10,000 sanitary pads to promote menstrual health among female students.
The electronic devices were presented to representatives of secondary schools on Monday at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
Represented by the wife of the Rivers Governor, Mrs Valerie Fubara, Tinubu said the NDDC provided the iPads to help junior secondary school students access digital educational resources.
She said the devices were freeloaded with educational applications to make learning easier and more engaging.
Tinubu urged beneficiary schools not to sell the devices but use them strictly for educational purposes.
She also directed the schools to provide evidence of distribution and ensure that the learning aids reached the intended students.
Receiving the iPads, Mrs Gladys Ogudechika of Community Secondary School, Oyigbo, thanked the First Lady for the intervention.
Ogudechika said the gesture would strengthen student learning skills and improve their academic development.
Similarly, Mr Boyle Dedeboma of Community Secondary School, Akinima, Ahoada-West Local Government Area, commended the initiative.
He said the pee-installed learning applications would assist teachers and students in teaching and learning.
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In another development, Tinubu donated more than 10,000 sanitary pads to the Rivers Ministries of Education and Health for distribution to female students across the state.
She said the donation was aimed at promoting menstrual health among schoolgirls.
Tinubu directed the ministries to distribute the sanitary pads to government schools, including mixed schools, with priority given to rural communities.
Dr Minamoto Ikuru, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, described the intervention as timely, saying it would help reduce menstrual health stigma among girls.
Ikuru urged beneficiaries to discuss menstrual challenges openly with trusted and appropriate persons.
She also charged them to become mentors and ambassadors of the Renewed Hope Initiative.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Vincent Wachukwu, assured that the sanitary pads would be distributed according to the directive.
He said schools in rural communities would also benefit from the intervention.
Miss Chika Marvelous of Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta, commended the Renewed Hope Initiative for the intervention.
She pledged to use the sanitary pads effectively to maintain good menstrual health practices.
NAN
