Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi
100 senior secondary one to 3 (SS 1-3) college students from 5 colleges in Abuja have been awarded a three-year scholarship by MATINAAH Care Foundation (MCF).
The weak college students now have their faculty charges lined from SS1 to SS3. Others in SS2 and SS3 will profit throughout their time at school.
The benefiting college students had been chosen from 5 Government Secondary Schools (GSS): Aleita, 15 college students; Garki, 40 college students; Tudun Wada, 15 college students; Wuse One, 15 college students; and Wuye, 15 college students.
A 2025 international estimate said that 151 million youngsters aged 0-17 have misplaced one or each dad and mom, with about 39 per cent of the world’s orphans residing in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Nigeria accounts for about 17.5 million of those orphans.
In response to the wants of those weak youngsters, MATINAAH Care Foundation says it’s intervening to supply care and training for the chosen youngsters, though it could have achieved so for extra if sources had been out there.
Pastor Ibrahim Magadi, one in all MCF’s administrators, mentioned the assist is meant to deliver succour and assist the orphans obtain their desires in life, stating throughout an interactive session with the scholars over the weekend that “MCF is assuring these vulnerable, marginalised, persecuted and abandoned children of its support within the organisation’s limited resources”.
Dr Julie Jonathan, a doctor and way of life fanatic, said that college students who’ve misplaced their dad and mom ought to view their circumstances not as a defining identification, however as an expertise by means of which they’ll transfer from trauma in direction of resilience.
Dr Ado Shuaibu, who represented the Director/Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Secondary Education Board (FCT-SEB), counseled MCF for supporting training and enhancing the welfare of youngsters and younger adults.
He reiterated that training stays a robust instrument for private growth, social transformation and nationwide progress.
Also encouraging college students, Dr Cyril Efre, a senior supervisor on the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (UPRC), mentioned in a paper on self-discipline, excellence and success that college students attend the identical faculty and take the identical examination however obtain totally different outcomes. According to him, the distinction isn’t just intelligence or lack of connection, however self-discipline and the way people use the identical 24 hours out there to them every day.
Nnenna Sylvia Philips, a nutritionist, inspired the scholars to nourish their future by means of meals decisions that assist educational efficiency and excellence. She restated that the mind wants nourishment and advisable balanced meals containing energy-giving meals, meals that assist physique and mind growth, brain-boosting fat, seeds for stamina, leafy greens, fruits, and different plant-based meals. She additionally highlighted water and sleep as very important to peak educational efficiency.
