Ngwa Social Club (NSC) has donated 14,000 copies of 60-leave notebooks to indigent students in secondary school in seven local government areas of Ngwa clan in Abia State.
The even took place at the Adaelu Complex in Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia on Sunday evening.
Mr Uzoma Ogbonna, the NSC President stated that the NSC was established about 43 years ago to foster progress of the Ngwa nation and in line with this motive, it has been supporting Ngwa development efforts since then.
He stated that the notebooks were meant to encourage indigent students in the public secondary schools in the seven Ngwa local governments areas.
Ogbonna said Obingwa, Isiala Ngwa North and South, Aba North and South, Osisioma and Ugwunagbo LGAs were given their shares through the LGA Education Secretaries to ease proper distribution.
“We have been giving Ngwa students scholarships all these years; but now we decided to add books to be given to students in public secondary schools in the seven local governments in Ngwaland.
“We at NSC support education so much because education is the bedrock of human development; it develops the mind and the individual.
“We understand that public schools student’s population in the state is very few because parents who can afford it, send their children to private schools so we decided to encourage the public school students,” he said.
Mr Simeon Ogbonna, a parent who was at the event thanked the NSC for the gesture of love and support for indigent students in Ngwaland.
He promised to support such efforts made by the NSC to ensure that Ngwa youths are properly trained into responsible citizens.
Mrs Uloma Ikpeazu, Education Secretary, Aba South LGA, also lauded the effort of the NSC and for supporting public school system and its students in Abia.
According to her, the public school system had many challenges, but the most troubling was its hosting of very poor students who can’t afford school uniforms and those with financial need to write external examinations.
She promised that the books would get to the right hands stressing that the teachers and principals in the public schools in the area now were capable of delivering as expected.