Dame Amaechi Urges Support For ESI

Wife of the Rivers

State
Governor, Dame Judith Amaechi has appealed to the State House of Assembly to
support and partner with her Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), to improve
the educational foundation of Rivers children.

Dame Amaechi stated this Wednesday when she
embarked on an advocacy visit to the Assembly to intimate members of the need
to buy into the ESI programme, a non-governmental Organisation (NGO) that
targets infants in rural areas.

The wife of the state Governor hinted that
the NGO has established a total of 84 nursery schools in various parts of the
state and has launched Adopt a Child Scheme to ensure that the cost of running
the programme is made manageable.

According to her, about 400 children of the
scheme have been adopted, noting that the best thing to give to any child is
education, and urged the House to make meaningful contributions towards the
success of the ESI.

She explained that the programme recruits
teachers from the local communities were the schools are situated, adding that
the appeal has become necessary considering the huge resources expended in her
drive for a better Rivers State.

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Women
Affairs, Mrs Joeba West, urged the lawmakers to see the good intentions of the
governor’s wife in establishing the Empowerment Support Initiative to fill the
existing gap in early child education, especially for the children of the poor.

She corroborated the views of the Speaker’s
wife and woman leader of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), that proper
education would prepare the children for future life.

Responding, the Speaker of the Assembly,
Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Amaechree, assured the wife of the Governor that the
Assembly will partner with her NGO, the ESI, to enable the organisation achieve
its set objects.

Hon. Amachree said the lawmakers will adopt
32 children from the school and would assist in other aspects to ensure that
their constituents benefit from the scheme.