Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), in collaboration with the Taraba State Agency for Mass Education, graduates its first set of adult literacy in Taraba, totalling seventy graduates.
The programmes National coordinator Dr. Fatima Aliyu, while delivering her address at the graduation ceremony in Jalingo disclosed that VCDP does not only support Agricultural production but also carries out programmes to empower women and youth across the country.
Aliyu, who was represented by Dr Musa Dalang, also noted that, VCDP found it necessary to sensitise and encourage the adult on the need to acquire adult literacy, since it will broaden their knowledge on activities and programmes of the scheme, and also gain more knowledge on happenings in society.
Dr Augustina Godwin, Taraba State Commissioner for Education, while commending VCDP and the agency for their decision to ensure adult literacy in Taraba, described education as the bedrock of socio economic development of every progressive minded society.
The commissioner noted that the Value Chain Development programme and the State Agency For Mass Education’s idea to ensure adult literacy, was a boost to governor Agbu Kefas’ educational revolution in the State and appeal for sustainability of the programme, as “its contributions are life changing, driving, and capable of eradicating poverty in the state.”
“I salute your initiative to educate the adults in Taraba. This idea is a boost to governor Agbu Kefas’s education revolution agenda for Taraba, and I encouraged the graduands not to relent but continue with their educational pursuits.”
Meanwhile the state commissioner for Agriculture and Food security Prof. Nicholas Namessan, and the executive secretary, Taraba State Mass Education Board, Mr. Obadiah Andrew, both maintained that literacy was not limited to educating the people on how to read and write but also comprises the societal development knowledge acquisition.
They called on the general public who cannot read and write in Hausa and English language to avail themselves for vocational and functional skills training by the programme.
Our correspondent gather that, 70 participants from the Howai VCDP adult literacy centre and Wuro Serbe VCDP literacy centre were graduated from the adult literacy school Taraba which started in 2022.