Yargote foundation targets boys considered beyond help  – News Agency of Nigeria

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Boys
By Hafsah Tilde
Abuja, Nov. 12, 2026 (NAN) The Yargote Foundation says it targets boys considered stubborn, wayward or beyond help by their communities for its six-month development programme aimed at improving their behaviour and life skills.
Founder of the foundation, Mrs Anna Hussaini, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.
Hussaini said the foundation adopted a community-based selection process, relying on traditional rulers and other stakeholders to identify boys who needed intervention.
“We identify a community. It’s a community-based effort. When we identify this community, we go through all the stages of stakeholders’ engagement.
“While at it, we tell them the kind of impact we want to make, and they know the boys in the community better than we do.
“We can have certain parameters we want to use, but the boys we want to apply the parameters to have to be selected by the community because they know the boys that are stubborn, wayward and need intervention.
“When they bring them together, we issue our questionnaire and determine the number of boys to select based on their responses. We screen them and pick those we want to work with.
“Like I mentioned, we want to work with the stubborn ones and those the community feels have no hope. Those are the kind of boys we pick based on our selection parameters,” she said.
Hussaini said the programme also addressed challenges such as gambling and addiction, which she partly attributed to online influencers promoting betting as a means of becoming wealthy.
“We also made them understand that a lot of things they see online are made beliefs because these people are influencers.
“They are paid to make it look real. They are paid to lure them into it, so at the end of the day, hard work pays.
“That’s what we keep telling them. There are no shortcuts to it,” she said.
She urged governments, community leaders, stakeholders and Nigerians to work together to raise a generation of emotionally stable boys who would become responsible fathers, leaders and mentors.(NAN)
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Edited by Abiemwense Moru