Basic Education: Special Needs, School Receives Free Back-to-School Materials from Rotary Club PH Cosmopolitan
Written by Precious Ahiakwo-Ovie
It was all shades of tears of joy, jubilation and renewed hope, as pupils of the Special Needs School in Port Harcourt received some writing materials and school bags from the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Cosmopolitan.
Over one hundred and fifty school bags with writing materials were distributed to pupils and students in primary and secondary classes at the Special Needs School in Creek Road, Port Harcourt Town, as part of the club’s back-to-school project, under the Rotary International area of focus, supporting Basic Education and Literacy.
According to the National Policy on Special Education, the provision of quality education to all children with disabilities in Nigeria remains challenging due to poor resources, inequitable distribution of educational services, late identification of children with special needs, among others.
Following this development, President of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Cosmopolitan Rtn Gogo Charles said members of the club took action to rise up to the challenges of the Special Needs School.
“The Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Cosmopolitan adopted the Special school as our choice location to deliver our signature projects over the years. The club through her members and other partners have provided basic needs of the school and students and also established an equipped skills acquisition center for the special students. We have equipped their library with computers an gave them comfortable classrooms. Now we are here to lift some burdens off the parents by providing free writing materials and school bags to the pupils and students here. We will continue to create hope and tackle mental health with our projects”, he said.
On his part, supervising Assistant Governor, to the club, Oseme Okoruwa while commissioning the project said “This is our literacy project and also our community development project as part of the business of Rotary. The basic thing that inspired this is the need to care for the neglected, the less privileged and the need to make life better for them.”
Principal of the Special needs School, Creek road, Town, while commending the members of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Cosmopolitan, said “The club has been in the business of making education for the special Needs students accessible and easy for even the teachers by providing basic necessities for the school. The Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Cosmopolitan has prioritized providing quality basic education needs for this school. The students are always delighted to see Rotarians because they have made life easy and better for them! Their parents are happy to because burdens have also been lifted from them”.