Batch`C’ 2021 Corps member, Mr EYELA EFE KEVIN, earlier today, donated the underlined PCDS projects to his host Community in Omu-Aran, Kwara State.
The Delta State born National Youth Service Corp member who is serving in Omu-Aran Community in Kwara States earlier today as part of his Personal Community Development Service (CDS) commissioned donated the following to his host community:
1. Three Incinerators/Refuse Dumps for effective waste management in the three wards in Omu-Aran Community; IFAJA, IHAYE, AND ARAN WARDS.
2. 100 Insecticidal Mosquito nets to nursing mothers, pregnant women and the aged in Omu-Aran.
3. Sets of uniforms to 30 indigent Students of Government Secondary School and Ansarul Islam Secondary School in Omu-Aran Community, Kwara State.
4. 200 exercise notebooks to JSS Students of Ofe-Aran Commercial College and OGBO Grammar School as back to school program.
5. Paid tuition fees for 5 indigent Students in Ofe-Aran Commercial College.
While speaking, He said, “Before I came for service, I’d always see corps members doing projects, and when I came here, I immediately met with the traditional ruler, and council of Chiefs on a separate grounds, for I saw this place and felt it is extra work to give back to the community. I am happy my dream came to reality"
He stated that, the projects were part of his personal community development service and also as a way to contribute his own quota to the development of the rural communities with the view to give back to the communities in his place of his primary assignment.
Going forward, Eyela said at the event that the items and projects costs about N835, 000 and that the community stakeholders were very much instrumental in ensuring the reality of these projects, as they gave both in cash and kind, adding that “the gesture is aimed at alleviating the suffering of the beneficiaries.
“The gesture is also aimed at enabling the children and students to acquire education with relative ease as well as help in reducing the downward trend of the standard of education, in the country” he said.
Thereafter, he urged wealthy Nigerians to complement the efforts of the government in funding education at all levels.
The corps member, who is doing his primary assignment with Ofe-Aran Commercial College in Kwara, also said that education remains the bedrock for any meaningful socio-economic development in any nation.
The State Coordinator, of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Francisca Olaleye represented by The Zonal Inspector, Irepodun Zone, Mr. Nimyel Samuel commended the corps member for the great strides.
The Local Government Inspector, Dr. (Mrs). Fehintola Asa said the scheme was introduced to help in solving some identified problems in the respective host communities of the corps members during the service year.
On his part, the representative of the Royal Palace, High Chief Peter Bamigboye (Aro Ana of Omu-Aran) described Eyela Efe as a great source of inspiration and a perfect model for the younger generation to emulate.
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