The Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation has taken humanitarianism to a new height in Nigeria as it has committed to rebuild an uncompleted orphanage, revamping educational and general well-being needs of over 120 orphans in JOFIN Orphanage Home, Jos, Plateau State.
The transformation of the Home includes rebuilding of the uncompleted building and classrooms currently housing the orphans, drilling of bolehole, provisions of total healthcare, nutritious meals and the educational needs, including provision of well-equipped modern classrooms, modern teaching and learning materials, clothing and school fees of the orphans at all levels.
The orphanage home caught the attention of Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation when in its usual routine visitation to the facility met the children using detergents water used for washing clothes to bath and also found out that the children were using groundnut oil as body creams; learning on bare floor without any teaching aids, no food to eat, and no water to drink.
The dilapidated condition of the Home made the Foundation resolve to embark on massive transformation of the facility and as many orphanage homes as possible across the country.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation (SUF), Jovita Ibie, announced the taking off of the project with immediate effect including the drilling of a bolehole in the premises, during the inauguration of the program on Friday, September 27, 2024, at the JOFIN Orphanage Home premises in Jos.
The CEO disclosed that what was witnessed in Jos in line with Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation’s humanitarian mission and vision, would be replicated in five States of Nigeria, including Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Responding, the owner and the Matron of the JOFIN Orphanage Home, Mrs Chidiebere Onyeukwu, in an emotional-laden voice gave God all the glory for using Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation to raise the hope for better life for the orphans. She explained how she had been unable to feed the children properly since inflation and general hardship befall the nation’s economy and Nigerians.
She revealed that the Foundation team was on ground since on Sunday, September 15, 2024, feeding the entire children a three-square meal on a daily basis and giving the orphans medical attention. She expressed appreciation and gratitude for the gesture.
Mrs Chidiebere was further surprised by the mind-blowing announcements to rebuild the Home, classrooms and provisions of all the needs of the orphans in facilities, modern teaching and learning materials, furniture, fees, clothing and feeding wise.
Plataeu State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Caroline Panglang Dafar, ably represented by Astira N. Gotom, commended the Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation for its humanitarian and physical development interventions in the State in particular and in Nigeria as a whole.
The Commissioner assured the Foundation that the State government was behind it and urged other wealthy Nigerians to emulate the Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation in providing humanitarian needs of orphans, whose number is on the high increase as a result of insurgency and banditry in the country.
Expressions of joy by the children are also worthy of note. The orphans, through their head girl, Mercy Loka, offered to sustain their prayers for the Foundation to keep flourishing for coming to take them out of hunger and starvation which they had been going through before SUF identified with the Orphanage Home.
The highlights of the event included presentations of food items and educational materials worth millions of Naira to the Matron of the Home while assuring that the rebuilding of the facility, the drilling of the bolehole will commence immediately and noted that the daily feeding of the orphans continues and will be sustained.
Recall that the Stanley Uzochukwu Foundation recently announced empowerment grants of N40m to 80 Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) across the country. The grants presentation ceremony is coming up in Lagos on October 5, 2024, where each beneficiary will go home with N500,000.
