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As portion of its quest to guarantee entree to prime acquisition crossed Nigeria, humanitarian organisation, Jeje Riders has donated a acceptable of
educational materials to Government Secondary School, Gan-Gora successful Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The event, which took spot connected the premises of the school, was attended by the Special Assistant to Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State connected Community Relations, Hon. Jedidiah Yahaya, and the subordinate representing Zango Kataf State Constituency astatine the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Samuel Kambai Kozah.
Presenting the items, which included implicit 4,000 workbooks, desks and chairs, a subordinate of the group, Joel Bwankwot, said Jeje Riders is motivated to impacting connected students’ acquisition due to the fact that they judge acquisition is the surest mode to the improvement of the country.
“Like we person ever done crossed states successful Nigeria, we thought it indispensable to travel and assistance to scope retired to our younger ones.
“We cognize we cannot bash it all, but we ever effort to lend thing important. Our anticipation is that these younger ones volition marque bully usage of these facilities and books that we are giving retired to them truthful that they tin assistance their communities,” Bwankwot said.
The main of the school, Mr Soldier Rafael, successful a remark expressed gratitude to Jeje Riders for intervening successful the school. He said this is the archetypal clip since helium resumed arsenic principal, that the schoolhouse is getting a donation of specified magnitude.
“Since I became the main of the school, I person ne'er gotten specified a gesture. And I privation to really usage this mean to archer you that I americium really precise happy.
“Because by this gesture, my students volition person the accidental of expanding their horizons done the donation of the materials, particularly the books and the chairs,” Rafael said.
He called connected the Kaduna State Government to assistance successful providing a convenient learning situation for the schoolhouse arsenic the existing classrooms are overcrowded and successful a dire authorities of disrepair.
Speaking to journalists astatine the event, a founding subordinate of the group, Tijjani St. James said that the donations were successful enactment with the group’s creed, which coincidentally aligns with the United Nations SDGs.
He said Jeje Riders Nigeria focuses connected younker improvement done deterrence and support.
“We question to deter youths from engaging successful harmful vices and ways of beingness that could truncate their potential.
“The Jeje Riders Nationwide Secondary School Students Anti-drug and substance maltreatment run successful concern with the NDLEA is an illustration of the tools we person adopted to dissuade youths from destructive tendencies.
“So far, we person covered 8 schools crossed the North and Imo State.
In the country of younker improvement support, we absorption connected acquisition done the proviso of learning and teaching equipment.
“We person donated implicit 122 computers, integer screens, star instrumentality and schoolroom desks to schools successful Adamawa, Jigawa, Gombe, Plateau, and Kaduna States for this project,” St. James said.
On however they are capable to money the projects, helium said funds travel from rank fees and done donations and grants from organisations and individuals.
He further said Flourmills of Nigeria has been a staunch spouse successful this area.
Tijjani, who is besides the Chief Commercial Officer of Notore Chemical Industries Plc., said the radical is made up of professionals and elder subject men.
He stated that Professor Mohammed Garba Mainasara, an ENT surgeon who precocious performed crushed breaking cochlear implant surgeries connected children with profound proceeding nonaccomplishment successful Kaduna, is an illustration of the benignant of professionals that Jeje Riders Nigeria is made of.
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