About 300 Cross River State children are set to benefit free education and at least one meal each day courtesy of the Rocha’s Foundation School.
Speaking at her mentor’s interactive cocktail held in Calabar on Monday evening, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Rocha’s Foundation, Uloma Uche Nwosu, said that the programs would start by January 2022.
“Here in Cross River, the Rocha’s Foundation has come to Cross River State, we are opening in January. The Rocha’s Foundation has about 11 Colleges across Nigeria . This is our first school in the south-South and the very first in Cross River State.
“Cross River is the twelfth school we are establishing in the country, we chose Cross River because through our research, we discovered that there are a lot of out of school children in the state, that is why we are starting here.
“We have been on streets, scouting for the school children in the past ten days, so we are making sure that while we are targeting 300 children, most of those number will be out of school children, once we find than we give them automatic admission to our school.
“We have trained over 25,000 children and have produced 6,000 graduate as medical doctors, engineers, lawyers and still counting.
“We are going to have sub stations in the rural areas since Cross River is so large and you cannot have a child from Obudu coming to attend school in Calabar, so we will take the school to the streets where we will have sub stations for the foundation,” Uloma said.
On her part, the Director of Schools, Dr. Caro Ochemba, said their targeted criteria are indigent children and orphans.
She explained that in the course of recruiting teachers, about 7,000 applicants were currently seeking to be employed by the Foundation as teachers.
“Two key words, the child must come from an indigent home. Then orphan, however, you must be seen to be intelligent.
“In our schools we have 7,000 children currently in school, so we are experienced in this project.
“We have been in Cross River the past one week, we have come Cross 700 applicants looking for jobs.
“But we are insisting on people that have passion for the job apart from being educated. In our schools, we allow every child choose his or her career.
“Caring for 7,000 children at a go is huge, so we are concentrating on academics for now, other thing like skills acquisition will come subsequently as we expand,” she said.
The Rocha’s Foundation is founded by the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rocha’s Okorocha.
The Foundation is said to be in a mission to provide education for Nigerian and African children.
The Foundation is arriving the South-South part of Nigeria for the first time, and is the first of it’s kind in Cross River State.
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