With Sandra and Child, 3,000 children have access to education

With Sandra and Child, 3,000 children have access to education — Sandra, Miss Globe

By Prisca Sam-Duru 

WITH the view to helping the Nigerian child through with quality education and entrepreneurship skills, Sandra and Child, a non-governmental organisation has flagged-off its Project 3,000 initiative tagged, “Lifting up children from poverty”. Vanguard encountered the founder of the organisation, Miss Sandra Ogbebor, during the launch of her pet project in Lagos. “The Project 3000 is an intervention and timely initiative especially owing to the high level of poverty ravaging homes due to the economy crisis the country is facing leading to drop outs and children used as child labour. Also, the project is timely as it is a positive response to reducing the rate of youth involvement in societal vices such as kidnapping, ritual killings, oil pipeline vandalisation and Boko Haram insurgency which have become prevalent.

 The Project 3,000 involves teaching at least a child who in turn teaches at least two or three other with the skills learned. Sandra and Child is poised to assist the Nigerian child in all areas of life particularly education and entrepreneurship. Its objective is to help bring up children such that they learn skills that will engage them positively as they grown up. The organisation has realised the uncommon importance of education to any given society and so, is committed to ensuring that the Nigerian child gets affordable and quality education. As education plays a major development role in the child and society, we believe entrepreneurship is also important to tag along with the quality education that Sandra and Child is giving to the children. It included the entrepreneurship programme owing to the overwhelming level of unemployment in the country. On a yearly basis, tertiary institutions graduate individuals who are pushed into the labour market so, it has become necessary for us at Sandra and Child to use our God-given talents, opportunities and contacts to assist them through scholarships to live a meaningful life. This is purely to save the Nigerian child from untold bleak future that lies ahead of them even after graduation. The centre believes that applying entrepreneurial trainings to the Nigerian children would help them become self reliant and in turn, become employers of labour.” She said.