Foundation offers N7.6m in scholarships for underprivileged children
Foundation offers N7.6m in scholarships for underprivileged children
PHOTO: L-R; Mrs. Njide Okolo Onyuike, Member, The Gamesville Foundation; Three (3) student scholarship recipients, Echoes of Mercy and Hope Foundation; Ms. Kolufunse Ajala, Member, The Gamesville Foundation; and Mr. Sijuade Oguntayo, Member, The Gamesville Foundation, during The Presentation Ceremony of Scholarships to eighteen underprivileged children in Lagos
The Gamesville Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation has raised N7.6 million in scholarships from a corporate sponsor to support 18 underprivileged children across three charitable organisations in Nigeria.
The scholarships were offered on Tuesday and this marks an increase of more than N4 million over last year’s scholarship awards, with nearly double the impact, a statement by the NGO signed by its Co-founder and Trustee, Chidinma Obi Sedenu, stated.
This step provides recreation and aid to humans who are onset by hardship, old age, loneliness, and disability.
Obi Sedenu noted: “It is important that we as individuals, as organisations, and as corporations do whatever we can, in our capacity, to break the chains of poverty in our communities.”
The beneficiaries are: Street Child Care and Welfare Initiative, an NGO that focuses on the rescue and integration of street boys into society, which received N2.77 million to fund the education of eight boys; Echoes of Mercy and Hope Foundation – a foundation that concentrates on housing and schooling formerly neglected and abused girls gets N3.99 million to fund the education of seven girls.
In addition, JAKIN N.G.O, another foundation which focuses on the needs of impoverished communities in Lagos State, received N816,200 for educational support such as school kits, lessons, nutrition, and transportation for three girls.
A top official of the initiative who pleaded anonymity said, “We cannot say that we are successful if our neighbours, the people around us, the entire society is not succeeding. What is the metric that we use to measure success? It is the future, and the children are our future. We know that some children are less opportune than others. They deserve our intervention.”
The event was attended by the corporate sponsor’s management staff, founders and directors of Gamesville, Mrs. Fola Soyebo and Mrs. Iyabode; Ogbonna of Echoes of Mercy and Hope Foundation; Mrs. Comfort Alli Babalola, Street Child Care and Welfare Initiative; and Mrs. Olubukola Adebiyi of Jakin NGO, and other members of The Gamesville Foundation.
