A non-governmental organisation, Centre for Nutrition and Education of Child-oriented Foundation (CNECOF) has donated food items to Kids with Vision Foundation Orphanage Home in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
The beneficiaries were evicted from the facility owners of the orphanage has been operating for 15 years.
The executive director and founder of CNECOF International, Pastor El-Polycarp Yusuf Degri, presented food items, detergents, amongst other materials to management of the orphanage yesterday in Jos. The home has about 70 orphans.
He called on spirited individuals and organizations to come to the aid of the home which has been served with quit notice and expected to moved out at the end of August 2022 to a yet to be access destination.
Degri disclosed that the organisation was established in 2009 in Gombe State and has been operating three centres that chattered for over 600 abandoned children, IDPs children and Orphans, widows as well as retired Clergymen over the years are set to expand their operations to other State of the Federation with Jos Plateau State as the first beneficiary.
He called for urgent steps by both government, spirited individuals, local and international organizations to give attention to out of school children which it’s present statistics by UNICEF potent serious danger to the country.
“If you only care about your children without attending to the children of your neighbor, you are indirectly breeding insecurity for yourself. Because they can harm your children tomorrow.
“UNICEF has reported that there is 10.5 million out of school children in Nigeria, and large chunk of the statistics is in Northern Nigeria. And the Northeastern part of Nigeria has the bigger share due to the problem of insurgency over the years. CNECOF feels we can not just look at this number and sit-down waiting for Government, we are calling on stakeholders to see the implication of this figure of out school children because the future is not assured,” he stated.
The director/founder of the Kids with Vision Foundation Orphanage Home Mrs. Grace Solomon speaking on behalf of the home, expressed gratitude for the gesture demonstrate by CNECOF International even when they were not yet stable in Jos.
She said the visit has made a big mark in the lives of the children and the home which were given one month notice to vacate out of the facilities they have been renting for 16 years. “We have been given one month to pack out of this place, we tried to access land that we can have it as our own permanently at the outskirt of Jos.
“Some plot of land goes for N300,000, some N400,000. Meanwhile we checked around the Jos Metropolitan city and some goes for N1.5 million per plot, some N3 million and we can’t afford such amount at the moment,” she said.
