Succour has come the way of one thousand students who hitherto went to
school without schoolbags and writing materials as they recently
benefitted from the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools initiative of Lions Club
International, District 404A1 Nigeria. The district, Education Review
learnt, comprises of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Delta and Edo states.
At the launch of the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools project which also doubled as free eye screening for patients in Asaba, Delta State capital, about 200 children drawn from 10 public schools benefited from the ceremony presided over by the District Governor, Mrs. Patricia Udeme.
According to the initiator of the project, Mrs. Mary Onu, the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools entails the provision of schoolbags with stationeries like crayons, pencils, mathematic sets, pens, rulers and exercise books, for schoolchildren who lacked such basic needs in the pursuit of their educational career.
Mrs. Onu who is the chairperson of Lion Services for Children, District 404A1, and a private proprietor told Education Review that with the initiative the club is able to give 1,000 children the opportunity to go to school well prepared. She urged the benefiting children to carefully manage the bag and its contents at least for the next one year, pointing that the next project might just be different from the schoolbag initiative.
Chairperson of Region 10 (Asaba), of the district, Mr. Samuel Ogbolu informed that ten schools were selected within the region which has ten clubs with each club mandated to bring twenty less privileged students from a school. He explained that the “initiative came when we look around and see children going to school without writing materials. When you stand on the road, you see children carrying polythene bags to school which is not ideal.”
District Governor of the club, Mrs. Patricia Udeme, explained that the major objective of Lions Club was to cater for the less privileged, assuring that the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools Initiative would be sustained “because it is part of our core projects, taking care of the needy.” She implored well-meaning Nigerians not to neglect any child particularly the less privileged as the future holds great promises for such children in the society.
At the launch of the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools project which also doubled as free eye screening for patients in Asaba, Delta State capital, about 200 children drawn from 10 public schools benefited from the ceremony presided over by the District Governor, Mrs. Patricia Udeme.
According to the initiator of the project, Mrs. Mary Onu, the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools entails the provision of schoolbags with stationeries like crayons, pencils, mathematic sets, pens, rulers and exercise books, for schoolchildren who lacked such basic needs in the pursuit of their educational career.
Mrs. Onu who is the chairperson of Lion Services for Children, District 404A1, and a private proprietor told Education Review that with the initiative the club is able to give 1,000 children the opportunity to go to school well prepared. She urged the benefiting children to carefully manage the bag and its contents at least for the next one year, pointing that the next project might just be different from the schoolbag initiative.
Chairperson of Region 10 (Asaba), of the district, Mr. Samuel Ogbolu informed that ten schools were selected within the region which has ten clubs with each club mandated to bring twenty less privileged students from a school. He explained that the “initiative came when we look around and see children going to school without writing materials. When you stand on the road, you see children carrying polythene bags to school which is not ideal.”
District Governor of the club, Mrs. Patricia Udeme, explained that the major objective of Lions Club was to cater for the less privileged, assuring that the 1,000 Backpack-for-Schools Initiative would be sustained “because it is part of our core projects, taking care of the needy.” She implored well-meaning Nigerians not to neglect any child particularly the less privileged as the future holds great promises for such children in the society.
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