By Funmilayo Adeyemi
The Executive Director, Ehigie Foundation for Children, Irose Gold-BZ has donated some educational materials to the Inter- Faith Dialogue Forum for Peace Nursery and Primary school for hitch-free learning experience of students.
This, according to Gold-BZ, was part of its outreach programme to provide support for vulnerable children who have been victims of violent conflict across the country.
At a Spelling Bee Competition organised for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) School in Abuja on Thursday, she said there was need to always help nurture children’s talent, irrespective of their status.
She explained that the donation was an integral part of their activities and a move towards enhancing academic performances of children.
”Children are my core vision; I give myself to children because I realise that they are very vulnerable and the society takes advantage of them.
“I have reached out to more than 20,000 IDP children since 2016 and this has been an ongoing project and the reason for this is because people go to orphanages homes because there is a structure for them.
“But the IDP camps have no structure for children. We discovered that water, serene environment for children to thrive and provision of food has been a challenge for the children.
“We discovered that the school has not had stationary for teaching and learning so we decided to come to their auditorium by providing such for them,” she said.
She, however, appealed to the Federal Government to support the school with learning materials as well as teaching staff so as to enhance teaching and learning.
She also charged wellmeaning Nigerians to support such schools, saying that, “if we spread more love, the world will be less chaotic.”
Also, the Head Teacher of the school, Mrs Patricia Omirigbe, appreciated the gesture of the organisation, saying that it had reduced the burden of learning materials on the school.
Omirigbe explained that the school, established on Oct. 20, 2020 had been struggling with adequate teachers to facilitate learning.
“This gesture has reduced the burden of us asking parents to buy books and stationary for the children because many come to school without books and writing materials.
“We need teachers as we have fewer teachers grabbing with impacting knowledge unto hundreds of students,” she said.
Highlight of the event was also the presentation of staple food to parents of some of the students, who did exceptionally well in the competition.(NAN)
