Free Education for Nigerian Children

Free Education for Indigent Nigerian Children

By Okeke Chidi Chinwendu

A charity organization, Helpers Social Development Foundation (HSDF), has launched Helpers Foundation Schools in Oji River, Enugu State in Nigeria to provide free, quality education to

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children. Considering the importance of education, the organization deemed it necessary to enroll 200 children, annually, to help them secure a better future.

As co-founder and chairman of the foundation, I officially opened the nursery/primary school at Oji in January 2022.

Children will benefit.

More than 200 less-privileged children will benefit from the foundation’s free education program and will receive school uniforms, textbooks, and meals.

The organization established free education for children to help them realize their vision and mission of reaching out to less privileged and unreached orphans and impacting them with knowledge for a better future and peaceful society.

Because of Covid-19, lingering financial challenges grew even worse. Based on the economic condition in Nigeria, dilapidated conditions of public schools, and the growing number of school dropouts, HSDF established this school to offer free education to less privileged children to help have a peaceful society and a better future.

HSDF started in 2016 and registered as a nonprofit organization in 2019.

Interventions impact thousands.

We impact the lives of more than 5,000 individuals through

our different interventions in communities and cities across the country. We have distributed school supplies to many schools, offer a scholarship to indigent students, and conduct health outreaches. We’ve built sanitary facilities for public schools in rural communities that did not have them.

HSDF decided to establish Helpers Foundation Schools to impact knowledge and visions for underprivileged children and reach out to society’s vulnerable ones. We chose Oji-River to impact more lives in rural areas through free education.

Royal commendation.

While commissioning the school, the traditional ruler of Oji River Urban, His Royal Highness Igwe Sunday Okefi Oliver commended the foundation for giving indigent children the opportunity to free education to better their future. Igwe Okefi, who noted that education is key to success and a better future, disclosed that this is the opportunity for the lessprivileged children to learn and harness their potential. He said that this is the first time such an institution has been established in Oji-River and charged the less privileged in the community to use the opportunity given to them to better their future and make society crime-free. sustainability of the program, we appeal to well-meaning individuals, organizations, and government to support us financially, materially, and otherwise to allow us to provide school supplies to the children, build classroom blocks to enroll more pupils in school, and pay our teachers to make our society a better place.

Contact partners@ helpersfoundation.org to support any of the HSDF initiatives and visit www.worldremit.com to donate to support a child’s education.

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