 A community development service program, organized by the General Ambassador CDS group in Lagos State, has launched a project to send 50 girls back to school. Plastic Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo Hasmo. With the spate of economic hardship and countless children dropping out of school, this community development service group named Ambassador CDS deemed it fit to send 50 girls back to school and provide them with back-to-school kits. State coordinator NYSE Lagos Yetunde Baderewa applauded the project and other speakers encouraged the group on more of such possibilities. Individual projects, so every time, every year, the co-members will continue. And we have the understanding and agreement with the sponsor of this event that they will continue. And these children will continue. It's not just for today, but their school fees for the next six years is taking care of. And we intend to expand. It's not going to stop at 50, with the support of individuals and financial. One of the highest number of out-of-school children, so any step or efforts to make sure that the young girls go to school is a highly welcome effort. And for this to be coming from a young lady or young women who are in the NYSE, you know, I think it's very laudable. There are programs like this, but the thing is to continue to encourage and continue to make sure that more and more of these are giving birth to. Because we cannot overestimate the importance of making sure that women are educated. When women are educated, there is a cascading effect upon children. Everybody benefits. Everyone. Because the children themselves, and particularly young girls, they realize I can be educated. Convener to me, Nino Collawoli, who did this as a personal project in collaboration with her CDS group, spoke on the satisfaction derived from this project. Every woman and every girl child has an opportunity to dream and to believe their dreams that irrespective of the circumstance of your birth, where you're born, who you are, you can be anything. And your background, either because you are financially unable to, should not be what will stop you from achieving those dreams. So it's just to make sure that everybody has an equal opportunity, especially the girl child and women in general. The beneficiaries also showed their excitement about the scheme. I want to say a very big thank you to the people that supplied us with this room. It's going to help me really well. I want to say thank you, thank you, my God bless you people. And I'm all good like this from primary three. According to UNESCO, about 258 million children are out of school. But these CDS group and their sponsors will continue this project as time progresses. That's to the mama, plus TV news.