A cross section of pupils who benefitted from Coco-Bassey Foundation in Cross River State.
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar –
In a bid to give succour to the less privileged in Cross River State, the Coco-Bassey Foundation has empowered over 5,000 pupils and students with books, uniforms, scholarships and other educational materials.
The empowerment programmes for students in various schools were carried out simultaneously on Monday in the three senatorial district – Cross River South , Central and North of the state.
In his speech, the Chairman of the foundation, Mkpang Coco-Bassey said the foundation has embarked on several empowerment programmes to ameliorate the challenges school children and parents faced in pursuing their academic.
According to him: “it is valuable to educate children for they are the future of a Nation. A well-educated generation will produce engineers, teachers, doctors, scientists, political leaders, etc that will develop a sustainable society where job opportunities created will be utilized and proceeds used to take care of our fathers and mothers when they are old while putting bread and butter on the table of each family and their households”.
“This the vision that has motivated this foundation to reach out to you on this faithful day with the goal of conducting a yearly empowerment programmes which will include the presentations of scholarships. Payment of exams fees and school fees for primary and secondary schools respectively. Payment for school uniforms as part of scholarships Presentation of exercise books and other writing materials including- pencils, rulers to all students. Presentation to teachers (teacher’s notes) to support their schedule towards teaching and presentation of school bags to all the students”.
He noted tha this initiative has come to stay, and it will be at the forefront of the foundation’s activities.
“Our next initiative will include the presentation of desktop computers and laptops to each public school since E-learning has become even more pertinent for diversified learning, owing to the constant evolution and the recent pandemic that rocked the world”.
“Education, be it in the four walls of an institution or a skill acquisition centre, facilitates learning to kick-start a life of relevance which is a much-needed survival tool in today’s world. The Coco-Bassey Foundation is a major proponent of education and has deemed fit to award scholarships and educational empowerments to the three senatorial districts of Cross River State.
Mr. Coco-Bassey, however, pledged to involve local and foreign support in developing the educational sector in Cross-River State.
“I will also expand the programme to accommodate the rehabilitation of existing classroom structures and subsequently build new ones in the coming future”. He said.
On her part, The Deputy Head Teacher of Ishie Primary School, Roseline Okon, commended the foundation for its kind gesture and charged other groups to emulate Coco-Bassey Foundation in ameliorating the challenges faced by school children and their parent in the state.
A cross section of students who benefitted from the foundation, appreciated them for their kind gesture while praying God to increase their capacity to render more help to the society.
