By M.A. Egge
The National Teachers Training Institute (NTTI) has churned out its first pioneer batch graduates of exclusively female students numbering 106.
To grace the graduation was the VP H.E. Mohamed Ali Aw Abdi at a ceremony that took place at the Maansoor Hotel in Hargeisa on Tuesday.
The graduation is a culmination of courses that took a couple of years for the newly trained teachers.
This batch is the first one for the all-female graduates from the National Teachers Training Institute (NTTI).
The VP underscored the indispensable importance of the female fraternity in the society and note elaborately that when ‘women are educated the society is educated’
“It is a great joy for me today to witness the graduation of 106 women who have been trained as teachers”, said the VP, and added, “an educated girl is an educated family”, in underpinning the importance of educating the women fraternity.
He noted that the tool used today for defense and progress at the same time was education hence the importance of bolstering the sector.
He said, “The country holds special value for the girls who graduated today, and as a government, we encourage women to be educated and progress further”.
He pointed out the women fraternity were a backbone of the society and they bore more burden especially in the chores of bringing up children as a whole, and as such, “they ought to be deservedly supported and promoted”.