Yakasai Zumunta donates educational materials to 100 female hawkers
By MUH’D HAMISU ABDULLAHI

A total of 100 young female hawkers to be enrolled into primary schools have received educational materials as assistance from Yakasai Zumunta, a popular Community Based Organization (CBO) in Kano metropolitan.
Such materials, which comprised of uniforms, books, sandals and school bags, were distributed to the hawkers in an effort to get them back to school towards effective girl-child education in Yakasai community.
Disclosing this at an event to mark the distribution, weekend, in Kano, the projects director of Yakasai Zumunta join projects with Community Participation in Social Sector (COMPASS), Nigeria, Alhaji Auwalu Mudi Yakasai, stressed the importance of education in the society.
Alhaji, Mudi Yakasai observed that educating a woman is like educating the whole nation as a popular saying suggests, adding, his organisation had held various discussions and sensitization campaigns with various groups in the pasts in order to make such female children attend schools.
This, he said, would help them a lot in facing the challenges of their future life, pointing out that for them to achieve this objective, there is the need to also provide job opportunities for the mothers of these young female hawkers as an alternative to the proceed they gain through their female children hawking.
Under this arrangement therefore, he said, many women were taught various skills and trades for them have a source of livelihood in order to release their female children to schools.
He said previously, 42 female children were returned to various schools around whom he added were performing well in their various classes, reiterating that some of them took first position in their examinations.
On his part, the district head of Gabasawa local government, Alhaji Bello Abubakar Tuta, Sarkin Dawaki Maituta, who served as special guest of honour at the occasion, expressed delight with the event.
Alhaji Abubakar Tuta also advised all and sundry to assist Yakasai Zumunta to enable it continue to wax well, praying for peace and progress of the community.
Also, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad Kuki, who represented the chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaji Muhammad Abdullahi Dutse, pointed out that community participation is very important to the education sector, promising them of the board’s support for their better performance.
Meanwhile, Hajiya Yarbaba Muhammad Maikano, assistant team leader, COMPASS, Kano, has described the day as important not only to Yakasai Zumunta, and women organizations but also to her organization, stressing the need for team work, saying that no development could be achieved without team work.
She called on other communities to participate in such community efforts since government alone could not shoulder all the responsibilities.
Among the speakers at the occasion were the chairman of elders committee of the organization, Alhaji Balarabe Adamu Yakasai and Arc. Yahaya Abba Yakasai, chairman, Yakasai Zumunta who delivered a welcome address.