The concept of education does not necessarily end in the classroom, it goes beyond that. It is therefore with the mindset of giving her pupils a holistic approach to learning that Greensprings School, Ikoyi campus extended their pupils learning experience outside the classroom by donating various gift items to under privileged within her environs.
The donation tagged Christmas in the Box was done in association with the Selfaid Capacity Development Initiative.
Dolapo Fatoki, head, Greensprings School, Ikoyi campus, said the school in so many ways try to reach out to the under privileged adding that charity is part of Greensprings core value.
According to her, “I am happy this is a successful project because the children were heavily involved from beginning. By the time they understood who they are giving to and why they are doing it, they did not stop reminding their parents till they all come in with box full of stuffs,”
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Fatoki says the gesture is not part of the school curriculum, however, the school makes it a point of duty to teach empathy and morals to the pupils’ adding that the school have achieve what it set out to.
“Aside from providing quality education, we are also abreast of what is going on in educational space. As a new school, we will continue to support more charity organisations”.
“We support displaced children, we are just one of the four campuses that we have the Lekki campus supports like three to four orphanages, we have children on scholarship from less privileged background”, she said.
Fatoki further stated in Greensprings School all round of education, building of character is very important. According to her, “Through the thinking school initiative, we bring up children that see the world as places they can operate from any of its part because of the type of education they receive. We are locally situated, but we train internationally minded children that are ready to face any child in the world and ready to operate.”
“We have sports scholarship and academic scholarships. I wish that many schools like ours can do this or reach out to the less privileged community on a regular basis so that education will reach out to them,” she added.
On her part, Ngozi Eze, founder, Selfaid Capacity Development Initiative, said that identifying with less privileged in the society was an awesome experience.
She said the foundation is all about the widows, children and orphans.
“We have four projects, the first one is the fresh start, where we train widows and empower them take on their business to enable them carter for their families. The second one is back to school; we have a lot of kids that are out of school. We get sponsors to send their kids to school and some scholarship for the children”.
“The third one is preventive healthcare; where we do basic medical care for them and they get tested for hepatitis B, diabetes, hypertension and blood sugar. The last one is feed the needy. We do this quarterly, we go out in the public and feed people on the street,” she said.
Eze said the foundation has lot more people to cater for, adding that it is not all about feeding them; we need to take then to the next level so that they become productive for the country.
A beneficiary, Veronica Ogbu said, “I am so excited. I say a very big thank you to Greensprings Schools. I did not imagine I can come here not to talk of having something. I am grateful. The foundation has been very helpful. They use to give us food but now we are being trained and empowered so that we can be useful to ourselves.”
KELECHI EWUZIE
