- Task21st June 2019, Malumfashi Reachout Katsina
This report has a significant explanation towards the vision of The Light Givers Humanitarian Foundation (TLGHT) on scholarship initiative program in respect to vulnerable children in our society. On 22nd June 2019, The Light Givers Humanitarian Foundation (TLGHF) launched a program called “A child’s education is the wealth of a nation”. This came as a result of the information obtained from different recognized and registered media houses in Nigeria that in the Northeast, the ongoing hostilities between non-state armed groups and security forces have affected 7.9 million people and displayed 1.8 million in the Northwest and North central regions, inter-communal violence has displaced nearly 310,000 people and undermined the livelihoods of thousands more. The humanitarian situation is relatively poor haven considered the statistics emanated from these region with previously high levels of malnutrition and common childhood illnesses. In Northwest Zamfara and Sokoto States, over 200,000 children are estimated to be severely malnourished and 3.5 million people require water and sanitation. At least 1.1 million children need support to access education, and 1.77 million children require child protection services.
The Light Givers Humanitarian Foundation (TLGHF) visited the areas affected especially in Katsina State Malumfashi to be precise under the Archdiocese of Sokoto where over 150 thousand children need support to access education and awarded scholarships to students from primary to tertiary level under the direct watch and blessing of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kuka, the Archbishop of Sokoto Archdiocese.
The Light Givers Humanitarian Foundation (TLGHF) also donated food items, accommodation and performed many other humanitarian activities to the less privileged. The program defines social and economic vulnerability to include students who have lost of one or both parents, students whose parents are living with HIV/AIDS or Chronic illnesses and who are unable to educate their children, and families affected by disaster such as famine. The program also served as a way of giving hope to bright, deserving children by giving them the opportunity to obtain a quality education and resultant benefits including better education outcome, improved chances of success in life, increased gender equality in secondary education, new opportunities for students from rural areas to access education and greater social integration among students.
Malumfashi is an interior native community in Katsina State. The people are basically known to be peasant farmers. The local community is plagued with high levels of illiteracy; due to its poor access to education, poverty and poor social infrastructure.
In other to access education, it is required of its indigenes to travel long miles away from their interior villages, to find educational institution. It is on this premise; the Dominican Sisters of Sokoto Diocese embarked on the mission to permeate these interior communities to find children eager to receive good education relocate the kids from their interior communities and rehabilitate them in a rented accommodation.
ELIGIBILITY
The Light Givers Humanitarian Foundation (TLGHF) has taken into consideration the significant impact of scholarship initiative for displaced / vulnerable children in Northern part of the country with the view to provide qualitative education that will help transformed and harnessed the talent of these younger generations through scholarship scheme. (TLGHF) uses the following selection criteria for the scholarships:
- Children with promising talents that have ardent zeal for education but could not further due to the inability of their guardians / parents to pay their bills.
- Children who have lost one or both parents and have no guardian or sponsor to provide for their education.
- Children whose parents are living with HIV / AIDS or other chronic debilitating illness and are unable to educate their children.
- Children who have suffered neglect and / or abandoned as a result of economic situation of the country.
- Children with parents living under extreme poverty and are unable to educate their children.
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NAME –CALEB JOSEPH ADDRESS –HAYIN GADA MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – SS 2 GUARDIAN NAMES – MR JOSEPH MARCUS
NAME –CHRISTIANA ASABE AYUBA ADDRESS -GIDAN HALI MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – PRIMARY 1 GUARDIAN NAMES – MALAM AYUBA CLEMENT
NAME –IBRAHIM SAMINU ADDRESS – POLICE CHILDREN SCHOOL FUNTUA KATSINA STATE CLASS – JSS2 GUARDIAN NAMES –MRS BEATRICE OGBE
NAME – JUBRIL YAKUBU ADDRESS –UNGUWAR DAWO MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – JSS 2 GUARDIAN NAMES – MALAM YAKUBU ILIYA
NAME – PAULINA CHIEKE ADDRESS – BCG ROAD MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – PRIMARY 4 GUARDIAN NAMES – MR BETRAND CHIEKE
NAME – PAULINE CHIEKE ADDRESS –BCG ROAD MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – PRIMARY 4 GUARDIAN NAMES –MR BETRAND CHIEKE
NAME – SEYI SUNDAY ADDRESS – GIDAN FADA MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – JSS 1 GUARDIAN NAMES –MR SUNDAY EKUNDAYO
NAME – SULEIMAN SHUAIBU ADDRESS – UNGUWAR DAWO MALUMFASHI KATSINA STATE CLASS – JSS 2 GUARDIAN NAMES –MALAM ISHAYA SHUAIBU