UK-based Foundation partners with Home for the needy on talent hunt, education
UK-based Foundation partners with Home for the needy on talent hunt, education
A UK-based Foundation, the Chukwuka John Foundation (CJF) has entered into partnership with the Home for the Needy Foundation, Uhogua Edo, on talent hunt.
Pst Solomon Folorunsho, Founder of the Home for the Needy Foundation, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Abuja on Saturday.
Folorunsho said that the CJF which was connected to several bodies, in sport, entertainment and education among others got interested in what the Home was doing and decided to visit to harness talents.
“They recorded and filmed our children in various talent displays with a view to taking the materials to relevant bodies in the UK.
‘’The children were filmed in areas like football, basketball, volleyball, arrow shooting, netball, badminton, long tennis and other areas.
‘’And I tell you, the CJF got more than they bargained for in every area. The children showed talents.
”In fact, they were so surprised, and wondered who coached the children.
“This is because the skills displayed by the children was like, what they never thought existed in the whole of Africa,” he said.
Folorunsho who on Saturday was awarded the ‘Best Most Outstanding Humanitarian Personality of the Year’ and ‘Doctor of Humanitarian Fellow’ by the Institute For humanitarian Studies and Social Development (IHSD) also expressed his satisfaction with the display by the children.
He said that though the headquarters of the Home for the Needy Foundation was in Edo, it provides accommodation for no fewer than 4,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The home, he said, has IDPs in clusters in Abuja and neighbouring states.
‘’We are right now looking for a place where we can put them together. We want to replicate what we are doing in Benin right here in Abuja.
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‘We want to do even better here, because we discovered that this place is just a natural home for them.
‘’We are looking for land. We want a place where we can assemble these people, educate them, create a support environment and create a skill environment where they can learn.
‘’We are appealing for assistance,” he said.
Ms Daniela Pilih and Teresa Jacob, From the International Christian Centre, Germany said her group was in Nigeria to appreciate the great work going on in the home for the needy.
“We want to contribute to the work going on here and ,encourage the children to continue to study hard, and not be discouraged by any obstacle or challenges that may face”, she said.
Dr Ali Marcus who just graduated from the Edo University, Iyamho, said that he found himself in the welcoming arms of the management of the Home for the Needy Foundation in 2014, after he lost his family to the insurgency in Borno.
He said that the humanitarian spirit in the founder of the Home didn’t allow his crave for education and desire to be a medical doctor wane.
“Today, I am happy I am a doctor, I am happier because our daddy and founder of the Home has been recognised.
‘’Indeed he is more than deserving of the two awards and recognition he recently got from the IHSD.
In the same vein, Miss Asanawa Ghide, a 400 level Law Student said:”what the founder has done for IDPs, nobody can adequately reward him, except God.
‘’That is because only God Almighty can quantify the amount of sacrifices he made”. .
