A non-governmental organization (NGO), Pepc Foundation, has given out free school bags and socks to 2000 primary school pupils in some Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) across Lagos State.
In a project tagged, ‘Back to School Initiative’, the foundation equally distributed books and writing materials to the pupils. Branded notebooks, calculators, pencils, pens, erasers and Sharpeners, are among the materials given to each beneficiary by Pepc Foundation.
The programme kicked off at Lekki LCDA during the week and continued in Ikorodu LGA at the weekend as a total of 5000 pupils across the State are expected to benefit.
After lkorodu, the distribution train would move to other parts of the state.
“We have been doing it for four years now. This year will be our fifth since 2019. So, we are here to provide back to school packs to the kids. We started with 300 children but now, we are targeting 5000 children by the grace of God, and hopefully, by next year, we would be able to do even more. The items we are distributing are school bags, exercise books, socks, sharpeners, pens, erasers, pencils as well as calculators”, Barrister Luqman Akinsanya, founder of the Pepc Foundation, said.
Chairman, Lekki Local Council Development Area(LCDA), Hon. Rasaki Bamidele Kasali, while expressing his appreciation, also urged the foundation to do more for his council area.
The APC candidate for the Ibeju Lekki Constituency II and former Special Adviser to the Governor on Commerce & Industry, Oladele Ajayi, said that the founder of the foundation is contributing his part to the development of the community through his humanitarian gesture.
In his own remarks, Hon. Abdullahi Sesan Olowa, the Chairman, Ibeju Lekki Local Government, speaking at the Magbon Alade Grammar School, where the foundation also distributed educational materials, said: “We appreciate you for bringing these to our pupils in lbeju Lekki Local Government and whoever that gives will never lack. God will never make you lack. Your foundation is still very young but it would grow.”