A non-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom, the IA-Foundation, has offered to pay the school fees of children whose parents were killed by terrorists who attacked the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, on June 5, IgbereTV reports
The Chief Executive Officer of the IA-Foundation, Ibironke Adeagbo who disclosed this on Sunday at a press conference in Abuja, said the NGO decided to take over the schooling of children of victims of the massacre so they won’t be forced to drop out of school.
“IA-Foundation will take care of the payment of the school fees and other related expenditures of the children who have become orphans, following the Owo attack until the completion of their secondary education,” Adeagbo stated.
She added that the IA-Foundation, which has been at the forefront of promoting child rights in Nigeria and has been “working assiduously to reduce the number of out-of-school in the West African country, which is home to 10.5 million out-of- school kids.”
She said the NGO recently offered scholarships to over 50 deprived children in Lagos State to give them access to education and promised that the organisation also would assist the Edo State government to take out-of-school children in the state back to their classrooms
