Activities marking this year’s Advocacy against Negligence in Schools (AANIS) summit will hold on Friday, November 18, at the NECA Event Centre, Ikeja CBD, Alausa.
The theme of this annual advocacy initiative tagged AANIS 2016 Heads of Schools and Proprietors Summit according to the Executive Director of AANIS, Idorenyin Toye – Arulogun is The Imperative of Safety in Educational Institutions.
Mrs Toye-Arulogun said that the programme was conceived as a platform for school heads, proprietors and other stakeholders to expand the conversation on critical issues that put at risk, Children’s Health & Safety while in school for the purposes of acquiring an education.
She said that an educationist, the Director General of Quality Assurance in the Lagos Ministry of Education, Mrs Ronke Shoyombo, a Healthcare Industry Consultant, Dr Gbenga Omonije; a Child Protection Specialist, Mr Taiwo Akinlami, the Executive Director, Rely Supply Ltd, Mrs Fayo Williams and a Legal Practitioner, the Managing Partner, First Chronicles LP Mr Oluyinka Oyeniji would speak at the summit.
Mrs Toye-Arulogun said that AANIS, which transmuted from MANIS (Movement Against Negligence In Schools), is a Child Health and Safety Advocacy Group set up in memory of the Late Morenike Toye - Arulogun, an eleven year old girl who passed on to glory on November 21, 2008 from an attack of malaria which degenerated to cerebral malaria, due to negligence and lack of duty of care while kept “In Loco Parentis” with one of the boarding schools in Nigeria.
The Executive Director stressed that AANIS was set up primarily to raise awareness on children’s health as well safety standards in Nigerian schools, adding that the organization is committed to championing the cause for safer environments, better health management systems and more sensitive care providers in schools for the benefit of our children and the nation’s future.
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