NAN-H-51
Teachers
Yola, March 1, 2018 (NAN) The Commissioner for Education in Adamawa, Mr Julius Kadala, says the state will collaborate with the World Health Organisation(WHO) to train 1,000 teachers on trauma control.
Kadala, who made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Yola on Thursday, said the training initiative would involve teachers from seven local government areas hard hit by the Boko Haram insurgency.
He said the trauma training, which would be specifically for school teachers, would educate them on how to douse fear among the affected pupils.
” Many teachers would also be trained on post insurgency programmes, ” Kadala said.
He said thousands of school children, who have been traumatised by the Boko Haram crisis in the state, require the services of trauma experts for counselling.
On the school feeding programme in the state, he said government had already screened qualified cooks from the 21 local government areas.(NAN)
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(Edited by Dauda Shehu/Mufutau Ojo)