A non-governmental organization, Secure Aid Relief Foundation, says
it will provide scholarships for the education of children of deceased
or incapacitated officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Head of the organization, Mr Patrick Nwadiani , stated this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Yenagoa.
He said in addition to the scholarships, SARF intended providing
legal and medical services, as well as soft loans and skill acquisition
programme to empower them.
He said the education of children of the diseased and incapacitated
officers would be funded from primary to tertiary level through a
scholarship foundation.
Nwadiani also said that the organisation was collaborating with some
corporate organisation in a bid to providing employment for the
employable and qualified children and spouses of the diceased and
incapacitated officers.
On
skill acquisitions, Nwadiani said spouses of the fallen heroes would be
empowered to fill the vacuum created by the demise of their husbands.
“We have skill acquisition training for the wives of the deceased and
incapacitated officers, who before the present condition of their
husbands were mere house wives.
“Their husbands who used to be bread winners of the home are no more
there. So, we are going to empower them through skills acquisition in
various trades and crafts,” he said
According to Nwadiani , the NGO has also gone into partnership with a
number of hospitals where the women and children will be given medical
attention, either free or at subsidised cost.
The President further explained that the foundation had already
attracted partnership and medical aids from reputable and prominent
healthcare charity organisations in the United States.
“The foundation therefore calls on all members of the public to come out and support SARF.
“The organization is striving to reward the efforts of our national
heroes who sacrificed their lives, as well as compliment the efforts of
the government,” Nwadiani said.
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