Group to raise N50m for solar boreholes, scholarship for students in Oyo, Osun

An Abuja based group, Club 1288 has launched an Appeal Fund to raise N50 million which it aims to use in assisting remote villages with solar powered boreholes and provide scholarship for brilliant but indigent Nigerian students in Oyo and Osun State.

The indigent students according to the club will be selected through critical criteria to be identified by the Club in collaboration with the State concerned.

The President of the Club, Rear Admiral Gbadejo Adedeji (RTD) while speaking with journalists on the upcoming investiture of the 11 President of our the Club 1288 Abuja, said the Club’s main objectives are to facilitate development through the provision of infrastructure (such as sinking of boreholes, installation of solar light, amongst others).

Others according to him are provision of health care facilities, financial support to indigent students, provision of social amenities that are lacking in our communities, collaboration with other Non-Governmental Organisations towards the facilitation of social well-beings of the less privileged people in the communities in our home states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

“This year the Club is Launching an appeal fund of Naira Fifty Million Naira. Our objective this time is to provide one, Solar Powered Boreholes in some remote Nigerian Villages without portable water supply and two, to give scholarship to a number of brilliant but indigent Nigerian Students.

“By the way I need to add that the Club members themselves contribute generously to this fund on the well known Yoruba principle that if you have a load on the ground to be lifted on to your head, it requires that you start the lifting by yourself to encourage others to join you.

“Further to that I must inform this conference that attached to the immediate past three investitures were 1. Provision of Foods, Clothings and other Logistics Support for the IDP at Durumi in Area 1 Abuja. 2. Funding of Surgery to four Children with Cleft and Facial deformities. 3. The provision of a generator and study and movement aids for the School of the Blind, Jabi Abuja.

“Plus provision a generator and hearing aids for students of the School of the Deaf and Dumb in Kuje, FCT.

He said Club 1288 Abuja which is 34 years old was founded in 1988 as a Non-Governmental, Non-Political, Non-Religious and Non-Partisan Organisation, to foster unity among the indigenes of the same area and to bring together people of like minds for the development of mankind and contribution to socio-economic development of their communities in their various states of origin as well as that of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), through the implementation of selfless projects and programmes that will contribute to the better living condition of the populace.

Adedeji said in the past 34 years of the existence of the Club, it has successfully contributed its own little quotas to the development of the communities in the FCT and its environs through the implementation of the following projects by the successive Executives

The Projects according to him includes provision of Hand Pump Water Project at Kuchingoro, FCT Abuja, Donation of food items and clothes for Physically Challenged Children at Kuje, FCT Abuja.

Others are donation of food items and clothing materials for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Durumi, FCT Abuja
Correction of 3 children with cleft mouth at Gwarinpa, FCT Abuja, Procurement of Generator and Television for Physically Challenged Children, Provision of hearing and reading aids for blind, deaf children at Jabi, FCT Abuja.