Every child has a right to be vaccinated.
From birth to the first years of a child’s life, there are prescribed vaccinations and medicines that must be given to the infant to ensure safety and immunity against childhood diseases.
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Nigeria: Out-of-school children – the burden of a nation.
The current insecurity in the country, especially in the Northeast, and the COVID-19 pandemic that is taking its toll on the world have compounded the problem of out-of-school children in Nigeria. According to data provided by the Federal Ministry of Education, the number of out-of-school children stands at 10.1 million, an increase of more than …
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UNICEF urges Nigeria to ensure safe school attendance
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on the Nigerian government to take all measures to protect schools in the country to make learning safer for children. The appeal was made because of the high-risk school situation in the country due to the ongoing abductions of children in schools. A senior official of UNICEF’s …
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CHILD development in relation with the family unit.
The family unit is the smallest yet most impactful part of a child’s life. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary , family is the basic unit of society and it traditionally consists of two parents rearing children. The family unit is a social group of man, woman and children usually bonded by marriage, blood, adoption all sharing the same …
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Understanding the fundamental rights of the child.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights The year 1924 saw the adoption of the Declaration of Geneva, which states that people owe children the right to the means of development, to special assistance when they need it, to relief materials, and economic …
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Child labour: through Zara’s life.
Zara had accepted her fate for what it was: a life condemned to manual labour and to eating the crumbs left by her master’s children when she washed the dishes they used for their meals. She was the house maid and delivery girl, running daily from one urgent errand to the next as if her …
Every Child Deserves a Happy and Innocent Childhood.
June 4th is marked worldwide as a reminder of the pain suffered by children throughout the world, mostly victims of abuse either mental, emotional and even physical. This was first made official on June 4th 2011. In 1997 the General Assembly adopted 51/77 resolution on the rights of the child due to the casualties of …
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CORONA PANDEMIC AND ITS EFFECTS ON EDUCATION.
It is statistical correct to say by research that two thirds of the world’s school-age children that is approximately 1.3billion children aged 3 to 17 years do not have internet connection.(source UNICEF and ITU). From this statistics we can analyze the situation and accurately guess that most of these children could not learn from home …
Single motherhood and it’s struggles.
In 2006 studies revealed that 12.9million families in the US were headed by a single parent of which an estimated 80% was headed by females. The birth rate for unmarried women was 41 births per 1,000 between the ages of 15-44 in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Data was obtained from most recent Demographic …
Why African board games should be introduced into the classroom
When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know, and a great number of the skills we acquire as children and adults, are learned outside the classroom โ in conversations with peers, engaging in community service, on the playground. Educators and researchers …
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