The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) has provided solar panels to help power the Government Secondary School (GSS), Yaba, Abaji area council in FCT, Nigeria.

Executive Director of GIFSEP, David Michael, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the project, supported by the Global Environmental Facility Small Grant Programme (GEF-SGP Nigeria), was triggered by the absence of electricity in Yaba community since 2016.

Development Diaries learnt that the group had in 2018 paid a visit to the school with regard to establishing an environmental club.

However, the NGO said it discovered that the boarding school had no electricity supply.

‘We had earlier powered a block of classroom with solar so that the students can read and do their assignments at night instead of using candles and lanterns and now we have powered the boys’ and girls’ hostels with solar’, Michael said.

‘GIFSEP had in 2018 powered a block of classrooms with solar to enable the students to study at night and now extended power to the hostels so that the students [do not] live in the dark any longer’.

He also said, ‘The solar for school initiative is part of capacity building for students to address climate change in FCT schools’.

In his response, the Principal of the school, Abdulsalam Ismail, thanked the donor and promised to sustain its usage for the benefit of all students.

Launched in 2009, GEF-SGP supports non-governmental and community-based organisations in Nigeria in efforts to protect the environment, while generating sustainable livelihoods for poor and marginalised people in developing countries.

GEF-SGP, which is tied to the (UNDP), supports NGOs and community-based organisations in Nigeria to protect the environment while generating sustainable livelihoods for the poor and marginalised in developing countries.

Source: NAN

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