Nigeria enrols Boko Haram child victims to school

The government of Nigeria's Borno state in the northeast has started a comprehensive initiative to enroll thousands of youngsters who have been uprooted by the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency in schools.

The effort was started in Monguno town where violence victims were sleeping in camps after being uprooted from their communities by Babagana Zulum, the state governor.

According to his spokesman, approximately 7,000 kids were registered for elementary and junior secondary schools during the program's initial phase on Sunday and Monday.

According to the government, many of the recipients are kids who were left orphaned by the conflict. According to them, the effort is aimed at more than 20,000 kids across the entire state.

The insurgency, which began in 2009, has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions of others in north-eastern Nigeria and several neighboring countries.

It forced many children to abandon schools and others could not be enrolled at all. Learning institutions have also been destroyed.

The authorities however say they are making efforts to ensure children are back to class by building new schools and sponsoring their education.