Meet Hajara: maths teacher, community mobiliser and ETS advocate in Nigeria
Hajara is a 30 year old mathematics teacher from Kokona Local Government Area (LGA) in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. After completing her secondary education at the Akwanga College of Education, she settled in Igwo village with her husband, who is also a teacher and the local Imam. Here, a place which she describes as “a little bit big”, she gave birth to her first child Nana Firdaus, with the assistance of one of the community’s Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) volunteer drivers. Hajara recalls hearing about ETS while attending a routine prenatal care visit at the local Igwo Primary Health Care (PHC)…
