By Wilson Adekumola
Members of Ikeja Metro Lions Club have doled out a set of school uniforms and sandals to pupils of Makoko Children Development Foundation in order to improve the quality of education in school.
According to Guardian, the club also donated money for the administration of the school and asked the founder to provide a plan for expansion and the cost.
The President of Ikeja Metro Lions Club, Godson Ikechukwu Anigbo, said the club evaluated the needs of the school and found out that it needs to be assisted in many areas.
Anigbo, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Ikotel Communication Ventures Limited, disclosed that before the largesse, what they saw at the school was disheartening.
He explained that the club discovered that the pupils did not have foot wears and sandals which the they gave out to the school.
While promising that the club would provide for other needs of the school and pupils Anigbo said, “The place looked abandoned. It seems the government and society had forgot them. The school is standing on wood that is surrounded by water. This is not right and it is not a testimony for Nigeria and her people.
“It is not right for the pupils and their teachers to subsist in this kind of environment. There is an urgent need for the government to come to the aid of these people. The government needs to relocate the school to a better environment for the pupils and pay their teachers.”
Speaking, founder of the school, Urban Wheduto, said he started the school when he noticed that most of the children in his church could not recite the English alphabet and count one to ten.
He stressed that he was supported by friends and family to expand the teaching and to build the wooden structure to teach more pupils.
Wheduto said he pays volunteer teachers stipends whenever it was possible, noting that he had reached out to authorities, who promised assistance that was yet to be fulfilled.
He, however, urged the government and kindhearted individuals to come to the aid of the school.
