Abuja, 22 April, 2024 / 8:53 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Catholic Women Organization (CWO) of Nigeria are reaching out to the boy child with a scholarship initiative in an effort to address “long years” of neglect.
In a Saturday, April 20 interview with ACI Africa on the sidelines of a scholarship award ceremony to 12 beneficiaries at Cor Maria Boys College in Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, where the boys are to pursue their studies, the CWO National President in Nigeria explained the positive impact of the scholarship initiative.
Dame Mary Asibi Gonsum said, “We decided to give scholarships to these 12 indigent boys because we need our boys to be educated. Over the years the attention has always been on the girl child while the boy child is neglected.
“We mothers of the Catholic Church have observed that the boy child has been relegated to the back and the boys who have no attention are becoming a menace in the society,” Mrs. Gonsum further said.
She explained, “We cannot train only the girls and leave the boys without care. The majority of the menace we have in our society such as armed robbery, kidnapping, drug abuse and other societal ills are caused by boys and men because of the long years of neglecting the boy child.”
