Segun James
Pupils of the Grange School in GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, have as part of their ‘No Poverty Social Responsibility’ donated materials worth hundreds of thousands of naira to two schools for special needs children in Lagos.
The schools located in Yaba, Lagos, are two of the few schools charge with training children living with disabilities and cerebral palsy in the state.
The Grange pupils, led by their teachers, Funlayo Opadoyin and Aniefiok Akpan, donated deep freezer, noodles, bags of rice, clothes and drinks among others.
Opadoyin said the donation is part of the children’s initiative to donate to the less privilege in society, especially those with special needs and care.
Receiving the donation, Mrs. Toyin Jayesinmi disclosed that the Magnificent School for Children with Special Need is home to children and adult from two years to 42 years old.
Jayesinmi said most of the inmates at the school are persons who cannot take care of themselves because they will require lifelong special care.
Also, the Director of Out-of-School Children Empowerment Foundation (OSCEF), which is charged with catering for children with cerebral palsy, Mr. Akeem Kilani, disclosed that besides children with special needs, over 18 million children are out of school nationwide, adding that it is donation such as those from the Grange School that is helping such children across the nation.
Kilani urged well-meaning individuals and organisations to emulate the gesture of the children, saying what they have donated will go a long way to sustain the children.