NGO to kit-up 200 children in 2019 | EduCeleb
Ahmed Iyanda
27th May 2019
A non-governmental organisation, The HelpmatesFoundation (THF) said it would kit-up 200 school children in 2019.
It revealed this on Monday in its Children’s Daymessage expressing readiness to collaborate with others to achieve that.
“We believe that with your collaborative effort, wecan make this happen and even do better,” a statement jointly signed the THFExecutive Director, Rasheedah Opere and Communications Director, Lateef Sanniread.
Noting that quality education is a right to beprotected, it charged all stakeholders to assist a child today in reaching hisfull potential.
“Helping students realise their truest callingswithout restriction to the formal setting, defines quality education, to which,every child has a right,” the group added.
Quality Education is a right protected by various internationalconventions including; International Convention on Economic, Social andCultural Rights, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1959Declaration of the Rights of a Child and a host of others. Governments andpublic authorities are saddled with the responsibility, to ensure that QualityEducation is made available, freely to all citizens from the early childhoodstage into adulthood.