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As part of activities to mark its 20th Anniversary, Total Health Trust Limited (THT), one of Nigeria’s leading Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO), serving over 300,000 lives has donated stationery, food items and several other materials to the Ojuwoye Community Primary School, Mushin,Lagos.
Ojuwoye Community Primary School is an inclusive school, training and teaching children with various forms of disabilities.
The organisation had made a strategic decision three years ago to make its CSR initiatives more impactful and inclusive with a focus on giving back to the local community, through the active participation and donations of staff and partners.
A key aspect of THT’s renewed CSR drive was to impact on underserved sectors within the local community and the education of special needs children became a focal area identified. The organization further conducted a formal search and discovered the inclusive unit of Ojuwoye Community Primary School. THT noted that the Ojuwoye Community Primary School is the only public inclusive school within the Mushin Local Government where children with special needs, learn alongside their peers within the same school setting.
On this year’s occasion, THT through its staff and partners donated provisions, food stuffs, stationery and exercise books to the school children, while teachers, were given basic home equipment. A representative of the organization also noted that the year 2018 marks THT’s 20thAnniversary, having started operations with less than 500 enrollees in 1998 and has grown to serve over 300,000 enrollees covering the public and private sectors and individuals, drawn from over 300 corporate entities.
Omotunde Morufat Omolaye, head Inclusive Special Unit, Ojuwoye Community Primary School, Mushin, said she was elated at the gesture of the organisation. “THT has been extending a hand of support to us and we are very appreciative of this. The society often rejects these children, but we do not reject them. We have 76 registered children we teach here. “The categories of special needs children we have in this school are hearing impaired which requires us to use sign language, total communication and finger spelling to teach them. Some have speech defects and others intellectual disabilities. The children withintellectual disability are grouped into two to include the trainable children and the educable ones. We teach the children vocational skills such as Arts and Craft, Slippers making, Tie and Dye, amongst others skills,” Omolaye added.
