Community Based Care and Support Programme (CBCSP), a non governmental organisation (NGO) of Catholic Diocese of Lafia, Nasarawa state, said it was sponsoring the education of 505 indigent children in Obi local government area of the state.
The programme manager of CBCSP, Emmanuel Madaki, made this known to newsmen Tuesday in Obi.
Madaki said that the organisation decided to provide the scholarship based on the humanitarian ground and the importance it attaches to education. This gesture, he said, would give the children a sense of belonging in the society.
Madaki said CBSP started operations on March 28, 2003, as a social arm of the diocese.
“And since then we have been embarking on different intervention programmes in the areas of health, education and household economic strengthening, among others, for societal development.
“We have embarked on different humanitarian gestures such as empowerment of about 400 vulnerable women and caregivers with N10, 000 each in this local government alone to improve economic power.
“We are sponsoring the education of 505 vulnerable children in secondary and primary schools in this area.
“Out of this number, 263 are female while 242 are male and this gesture is to make them better future leaders.’’
Madaki noted that the importance of education cannot be overemphasised to the socio-economic development of the society, hence the need for the organisation’s gesture in that direction, which was also to complement government’s efforts in improving the standard of education in the state.
He restated the commitment of the organisation to continue to key into different programmes that would have direct bearing on the lives of Nigerians, especially vulnerable children.
