School Resumption,2022/2023: Light Outreach Takes Donations to Displaced Pupils.

Pastor David Nkeh handing a bag filled with books to a nursery and two kits

As part of a build-up to the 2022/2023 academic year, over 25 displaced pupils and students resident in Bamenda have benefitted from school didactics to facilitate their quest for education. The gesture, 10 September  2022 at Nitob 1 quarter, Bamenda II subdivision was part of the efforts of Light Outreach Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization, and NGO to ensure an effective school resumption.

A total of about 500 books, pens and pencils, and school bags were provided to the students and displaced pupils in Bamenda. The ceremony was also in itself a moment for the foundations executives to hand over some pullovers and some pairs of shoes to pupils and victims of the crisis who had lost hopes in school and who are cumulatively battered by the brunt of a rising cold climatic condition.

School children happily carrying their books and bags

Pastor David Nkeh CEO of Light Outreach Foundation told journalists in Bamenda the donation is part of the institution's resolution to make Bamenda Great again. The project covers social, economic, political, and or religious. He opines that education is a necessity and not an option and the goal shall continually be collective. "we believe in a reflection of having more books in the hands of children than sticks. We think that these children have a right to education, and we are doing just that",  he said. The foundation is said to have benefitted enormously from the financial pump of Nathali Moudiki and Addax Petroleum Women respectively.

The gesture is said to be one of many efforts expected to be carried out in some remote cities within the divisions and regions harboring IDPs from the Northwest. Pastor David Nkeh hinted that the exercise will touch displaced pupils and students in Mbengwi and Belo in Momo and Boyo division as well as Magna in the West region. On the sidelines, it was also a moment to announce the surprise payment of school fees to some most vulnerable pupils.

The school children posed in a familiy picture to immotalize the event

Ambani Quinivette beneficiary hinted "it's with a heavy heart that I receive this gift. I lost my husband in the course of the crisis and I could barely provide for the Children left behind. I was uncertain of what will become of these children whose peers are already a week in school. Am most grateful". For his part, Ndi Victory primary 2 pupils and beneficiaries said he was not going to school because he had no books. "since I have these books now I will go to school next Monday". His school fees will also be paid by the foundation.