PH Mundial – Port Harcourt Online Newspaper News Across The Region
Related Articles
A faith-based organization, the MD-Info-Change Development Initiative (MD-IDI), has donated free school uniforms numbering over 60 to indigent street children in Rivers State for the 2018/2019 academic session.
About 11 free uniforms were presented to indigent students of State School Elekahia and Iche Akarolo Model Primary School Elekahia with an additional 50 uniforms presented to the Rivers State Ministry of Education to give out to needy and indigent children in the state.
The event which was part of activities to mark the launch of MD-Info-Change Development Initiative, tagged, ‘Vision 50:50:5 – The Teacher Inspired Initiative’ took place at the Elekahia State School auditorium in Port Harcourt.
In an address, founder/project initiator of the ‘Vision 50:50:5,’ Bro Maxson Dikibugerere Edmond said the gesture was borne out of the need to allow the Holy Spirit to work through him and others who believe in the gospel to reach out to needy young men and women.
He said the project “is about us reaching out to the street children just as we are all rightly admonished in Psalm 41: 1 that we consider those in dire need, touching their lives as replicated today and restoring their destinies, hope and aspirations through love, care and most importantly, the word of God. We believe that with the right but positive information via the Word of God we would help to change our immediate and remote world for the greater good of all.”
Bro Maxson Dikibugerere Edmond who is a school teacher with the Elekahia State School said the gesture will continue to spread to other schools in and outside the state. He said today the organization has given out 11 uniforms to students of State School Elekahia where he is presently teaching and had further donated another 50 uniforms to the Ministry of Education to collaborate with the Ministry of Social Welfare to distribute to identifiable students in need.
For the project, he said the Vision 50:50:5 is centered on Christ as they strive to provide solace to the needy and indigent in society. According to him, they are hopeful that at the appointed time God will raise corporate spirited partners of his own to sustain the project in the state, region, and nation at large.
Further speaking, he called on the governor of the state, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike to establish the Rivers Teachers Cooperative Development Bank to support teachers in the state and help provide affordable, low-cost housing scheme for those teaching in the state. He thanked the head-teacher of State School Elekahia, Mummy Ofoni Dorothy Ifeyinwa for sharing in the vision.
In his remark, while receiving the first set of 50 free school uniforms for onward distribution to indigent students and school, the Rivers state Commissioner for Education, Hon. Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja represented by the ministry’s Administrative officer, Mrs. D.V Odili commended the school teacher and his organization for such selfless gesture which is aimed at bettering the lot of needy students in the society, who are the incoming and aspiring managers of next generation. She said the ministry sees the initiative “as a novelty, that is why the ministry is here to support, encourage and partner with the Vision 50:50:5 initiative. I want to assure you that the ministry will partner with you, we are indeed happy that such initiative is coming from a school teacher.”
Other dignitaries at the event include members of the Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board and featured presentation of the project theme song by the eleven beneficiaries of the/pupils of State School Elekahia and Iche Akarolo Model Primary School Elekahia.
Reaching out, and touching lives that positively Impact generations are a call all of us must live to answer with our resources – talent and time. If our shared humanity must stay sustainable to all.
https://fb.watch/mOtKDE9okJ/
See link for details..