While persons with disabilities got wheel chairs, hearing aids, walking sticks and laptops, other students got bags with writing materials, shoes and mathematical sets, among other items. The Executive Director, HDI, Olufunso Owasanoye, said the programme tagged: “Supporting children with back to school kits” became necessary at a time in the country’s life, when education is in dire need of support from all and sundry. According to her, it is a yearly programme by her organisation since 2014.
“Even though challenges are a part of life, however, we must remember that children in-need are more vulnerable to life’s situations than others.” These children are indeed vulnerable to the economic hardship and widespread poverty in the land, and most of them go on to become educationally disadvantaged. This programme was designed to provide support for these children and show them love, while providing support through our educational scholarship, known as Human Development Initiatives’ Education Trust Fund .”
The first lady of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, a special guest at the event, said education remains the greatest legacy that can be bequeathed to children and the younger generation, as it has been established by experts that there is a symbiotic relationship between the standard of education in any given society and the level of development in such society.
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