The Director General of Rochas Foundation, Mrs. Uloma Nwosu, has declared taking out one million African children off the streets is achievable.
Nwosu, who spoke with reporters at her Owerri, Imo State office, explained: “What is of apparent significance is achieving the one million mark dream in 2030, considering it is just thirteen years from now.
“So the mere fact that you can picture it, if it is an ambition then it is something you can achieve. Like I said, this is one of the core policies that my office will try to achieve, by getting more people involved in the process.”
On how the foundation intends to achieve the target, she said:
“We are going to partner with lots of private schools, who are making so much money from privileged children. Out of that they should be able to do some CSR (corporate social responsibility) by picking at least two children from the streets.
“If every of such schools, corporate bodies and highly placed individuals among others could do that, then one million will just be too small to achieve by 2030.”
She debunked insinuations from some quarters that Rochas Foundation is all about politics.
According to her: “When I hear this, my reaction is just to laugh it off. But seriously, you can’t be doing same thing consistently and successfully for twenty years and it is still termed politics.
“If it is politics, after getting the office of the governor for two terms, then he would have let go. So, definitely, it is not about politics”.