Group Advocates Healthy Living Among School Pupils

Parents, teachers and guardians have been charged to always educate their children on the need to maintain high level of hygiene to be safe from diseases.

The founder and Managing Director of Lift Up Care Foundation, (LUCAF), Dr. Lami Onayi Ahmed gave this advice at the St. Luke1 Primary School, Adankolo in Lokoja where the organisation educated the children on the need to keep proper hygiene to be healthy.

The visit, which was part of the activities by the group to commemorate the 2025 Children’s Day, was also used to enjoin the children to pay attention to their learning and obey the school rules and regulations as the only way of becoming better citizens.

“We are also here to implement one of our thematic areas of our organisation, which is health. We have discussed with them the principle of WASH Programme, which is Water Sanitation and Health. We came here to remind them of the importance of staying healthy. We have told them how to maintain proper hygiene.

“They have been taught how to stay clean and avoid those diseases that are preventable. There is this saying that. “where there’s a will there will always be a way.”

Speaking also, the Head Teacher of the school, Hajia Kulu Ibrahim appreciated Lift Care Foundation for the gesture, saying that the lesson will greatly influence the conduct and behaviour of the children.

“The impact of the lesson learnt is that the children now know the importance of cleanliness, how to brush their teeth and wash their hands. Some of the children here are orphans who cannot afford ordinary brush to clean their teeth, but now, they are getting it free of charge from the organisation. It will certainly improve their wellbeing,” Hajia Ibrahim Said.

She commended the Kogi State Government for improving the standard of teaching and learning in the school through the provision of infrastructure and teachers’ welfare which she said served as motivation for them.

“I must commend the government of Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo. He has improve infrastructure in the school, he has also paid serious attention to our welfare as teachers and the wellbeing of our children,” she said.

Ibrahim called on other organisations to emulate LUCAF in rendering assistance to the children. “They now know that there is someone out there who cared for them and have come to celebrate with them.”

Speaking on behalf of the children, a pupil in the school, Adamu Gift, thanked the group for extending the kind gesture to them and promised to put to what they have learnt to use.