Members of staff of Transactional Products and Services unit of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc have donated an equivalent of one-year salary of all the teachers to Comenius Nursery and Primary School, a tuition-free elementary school for poor children at Ikola Odunsi, in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.
The head of Transactional Products and Services of the bank, Mr. Inwang Akpan, and his counterpart in charge of Cash Management, Mrs Ojinika Shote, were both presented the cheque for an undisclosed amount which is expected to cover the November 2019 to October 2020 salaries of the teachers in the school, to the proprietress, Mrs. Oluwatosin Taiwo, recently.
Comenius Nursery and Primary School, with a current students’ population of about 160 and 10 academic and non academic staff, is an initiative of Street2School charity organisation running as a tuition-free elementary school for poor and marginalised children.
Speaking at the cheque presentation event, Akpan, according to a statement made available to newsmen, said the gesture was to support the NGO’s effort in impacting the society and also to appreciate the dedication of teachers of the school in providing quality education to the underprivileged children in the society.
He, however, urged both the teachers and the pupils to be more committed to their respective duties, promising that the workers would not relent in supporting education development in any way possible.
In her response, the school’s proprietress, Mrs. Oluwatosin Taiwo, thanked the donors for the gesture, saying regular payment of teachers’ salary had been a great burden for the tuition-free school since inception.
So, the move by the company to donate a year salary, she said, was a big push for them to give more quality education for the pupils.