The Founder of Rochas Foundation and former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has launched a Teach a Child/Sponsor a Child Project aimed at targeting one million out-of-school children and bringing them to school.
According to a statement made available by the foundation to our correspondent on Wednesday, Okorocha made this known at the unveiling of the project in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking during the launch, the former governor noted that the country owed a responsibility to give every Nigerian child and unborn children the right education for their liberation. “In Africa, we have over 50 million out-of-school children and Nigeria has 13.5 million out of this figure; if we have one million people who can actually teach or sponsor a child, we will be better for it.
“In Nigeria, we have built political parties, hotels, churches and mosques but we have not built factories that manufacture dreams and aspirations.“We have over 200 million people in Nigeria, out of this figure, if we can have one million Nigerians who can actually teach and sponsor children, then we will not be having the problem of out-of-school children,” he said.
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