Niger Delta
Foundation Provides Free Education To Over 700 Students
The Principal, Rochas Foundation College, Zaria, Kaduna State, Hajiya Rabiat Ibrahim, said the college has provided free education to over 700 students in an effort to reduce out-of-school children in Nigeria.
She disclosed this, Saturday, to The Tide source on the sidelines of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, organised by the college in Zaria.
Hajiya Ibrahim said the foundation provide free secondary education to orphans and less-privileged students, adding that apart from the free education, the beneficiaries enjoy one square meal, free books, uniform and sandals.
The Principal continued that the college commenced the 2017/2018 academic session in Zaria with 200 orphans and less-privileged students, and it now has over 700 students.
She added that of the benefitting students, 94 are graduating from the college this year and the foundation had paid for their WAEC and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examinations.
She, therefore, commended the giant strides of Sen. Rochas Okorocha, the founder of the institution, and appealed for partnerships with other philanthropists to strengthen the initiatives.
One of the beneficiaries, Ms Hafsat Ibrahim, described the founder of the college as an icon of love and humility; a role model, supporter, giver and a father with difference.
“Daddy you are a person with a diamond heart not a gold heart, a heart that shines and makes others shine from it, a heart that can never be broken”, she said.
Ibrahim said as beneficiaries of Okorocha’s benevolent gesture, which makes most of their moments extra ordinary, they (students) prayed for God to keep and preserve him in joy and endless blessing.
The source also reports that highlights of the event were debates and presentation of scientific innovations by the students of the college.
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