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The Ade Ori Okin Foundation has donated school bags to pupils in selected Public Primary Schools in the Ijaye Area of Abeokuta as part of its Unveiling Schoolbags Project, designed to support vulnerable children and promote learning with dignity.
The first phase of the initiative targeted Pupils in Bode Ijaye Baptist Primary School, First Baptist School Ijaye, Ijaye Community School Oke-Odo CDA, Saint James Primary School Olorunsogo, and Ijaye Primary School Children Indigenous, where ten Pupils received brand new bags to replace worn-out or polythene carriers.
Speaking at the presentation, the Chairman/CEO of the Foundation, Mr. Babatunde Falana, hailed from Onibere’s Compound, Adebakin quarter, Ijaye in Abeokuta, said the project was born out of concern for children who attend school without basic learning materials.
“We observed that many vulnerable children are not happy going to school with tattered or polythene bags”.
“Their parents, due to economic challenges, cannot afford to replace them. Seeing these children trying to protect their books, especially during the rainy season, touched us deeply”. He stated
“Every child deserves to enter the classroom ready and confident to learn,” Mr. Falana added.
The Education Empowerment Programme of the foundation aims to reach at least 50 children in its first phase, focusing on those unable to afford new school bags.
Teachers and parents at the benefiting schools welcomed the intervention.
The Headmaster of First Baptist School, Ijaye, described it as timely, adding that it would “restore confidence and motivation among the pupils.”
One of the beneficiaries, Rokiba Babalola, a child living with a disability, received her bag at her parents’ home and expressed delight at the gesture.
Other pupils quickly discarded their old bags, placing their books into the new ones with excitement.
The Ade Ori Okin Foundation assured that this is just the beginning, with plans to extend the Back-to-School Project to other communities in Abeokuta in the coming months.
