COVID-19: VSF donates solar-powered boreholes to 3 secondary schools in A’Ibom

Mon, Mar 22, 2021

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THE Victim Support Fund (VSF) on COVID-19, on Monday, donated three solar-powered boreholes, worth N54 million, to three secondary schools in Akwa Ibom.

The three benefiting schools were: Methodist Secondary School, Nto Ndang, Obot Akara Local Government area; Comprehensive Secondary School, Ikot Okobo, Nsit Ubium LGA and Afaha Inang Secondary School, Ikot Idem Udo in Onna LGA.

Speaking during the inauguration and donation of the facilities to the benefiting schools in Obot Akara, the VSF Chairman, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), said the fund would continue to provide relief to victims of insurgency and armed conflicts in the country.

Danjuma, who was represented by Mrs Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, Chairperson, VSF, said VSF would continue to provide succour to vulnerable Nigerians and institutional support to agencies involved in the fight against COVID-19.

He said that VSF was seriously concerned about the plights of students and teachers, especially those in rural communities.

“We want to see how we can contribute to the containment of COVID-19 by helping public schools in low income communities around the country to observe all the necessary protocols.

“We are now going round the country to donate to 54 secondary schools in 18 states across all the six geopolitical zones.

“We want to tell you that the sustainability and management of these facilities are solely yours. So protect them.

“We will set up independent evaluators who will be going round to check how the facilities are being managed. If you maintain them and ensure their sustainability, bigger ones may come later.

“At VSF, we do not just want to account for the money, but to show the general public how we used it,” he said.

Earlier in his welcome remark, Mr Etuk Umoh, Principal of Methodist Secondary School, Nto Ndang, Obot Akara, thanked VSF for considering his school and others as beneficiaries.

Umoh promised that the benefitting school would make judicious use of the facilities and protect them from being vandalised.

He thanked the donor and government for the kind gesture, stressing that the facilities would go a long way in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

“We want to assure you that the facilities that you have provided here will be judiciously utilised, preserved and protected.

“We are really very happy with VSF for what they have done for us today,” Umoh said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other donated items included: 15 pieces of four-litre hand sanitiser, 360 bottles of 500ml liquid hand wash and 15 cartons of bleach.

NAN

– Mar. 22, 2021 @ 19:10 GMT