Following the commencement of school feeding in Kaduna, Fifth Chukker Resorts provided 30 blocks of two classrooms to Local Education Authority Primary School, Maraban Jos, Kaduna, which swelled from 500 to 12,000 kids.
Alhaji Adamu Atta, the company’s founder and CEO, who opened the facility as part of celebrations commemorating this year’s Children’s Day, said it was part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the community.
He adopted the school 15 years ago, according to Atta.
“About 15 years ago, I was approached by the community to help build fence for them because of insecurity, I decided to see the school and when I went there, I decided to adopt the school.
“In 2019, I visited the school again and discovered that because of the positive influence of the school feeding programne, the school have grown from 500 to 12,000 pupils and the classrooms were no longer adequate and because we don’t want something which has gained momentum to loose, we decided that we will build a brand new school for 12,000 kids.
“We chose the site and in six months we built 50 per cent of the school. We required 120 classrooms but we have 60 classrooms. I sought for some combined efforts of development partners, particularly from UNICEF.
“At that time they were about 500 pupils in the school, we embarked on putting the immediate required infrastructures, water and sanitation and few more classrooms that will accommodate them”.
Alhaji Atta also promised the residents of Maraban Jos that he would construct a pedestrian bridge for schoolchildren in order to decrease road accidents.
He also discussed the school’s implementation of e-learning.
“We felt that we should also create a remote platform where apart from the direct teaching, we can also engage the kids in remote platform such as the internet infrastructure. So we will be teaching the kids remotely with different teachers”.
Dr. Shehu Usman Mohammed, the Education Commissioner, thanked Atta for his assistance to the people of Maraban Jos.
“It is a very commendable project. With large number of kids here, it is not a small number. We must commend Adamu for this investment; we have gone round and have seen the pupils,” he said.
Hajia Aisha-Ummi Garba El-Rufai, the wife of the Kaduna State Governor, praised Atta’s gift as a symbolic progress for the entire state in an interview following the inauguration, saying that every local government area should replicate his charity.
Source: The Nations