Centre awards scholarship to 200 orphans in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe
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Scholarship
Mohammed Adam
Yola, Oct. 20, 2016 (NAN) The Abdul-Lateef Zabaden Orphanage, Maiduguri, has awarded scholarship to 200 Internally Displaced Orphans in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe .
The award was presented through Adamawa Government at a ceremony on Thursday in Yola.
The Head of the orphanage, Sheikh Arif Zabaden, said the gesture was to assist in educating the unaccompanied children living in various IDPs camps in the three states.
Zabaden, who was represented by Alhaji Kashim Abdullahi, said the beneficiaries were selected after intensive screening .
He said that the orphans were of between the ages of seven and nine years, and that they would enjoy the scholarship from primary school to secondary school.
” Each of the orphans will benefit from 12-year scholarship from primary one up to the time of graduation at the senior secondary school,” he said.
He said that after their graduation , the centre would enroll them into a skills acquisition training programme to enable them to become self reliant.
Gov. Muhammadu Bindow, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Education, Malam Mahmud Abubakar, thanked the centre for the gesture.
Bindow urged other organisations to emulate the centre, saying that such gesture would immensely help in educating the orphans.
In their separate remarks, Malam Sa’ad Bello and Mr Haruna Furo , the state Coordinator ,National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and State Executive Secretary, Adamawa Emergency Management Agency, respectively, said that intensive investigation was carried out before the children were released to the organisation. (NAN)
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Edited by Abdullahi Yusuf