The Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF), on Wednesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Victims’ Support Fund (VSF), to provide technical and financial support to the newly built Future Assured College, in Maiduguri.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the College was built by the ABF to promote and advance the social and educational needs of orphans, especially victims of insurgency in the Northeast.
Mrs Halima Buhari-Sheriff, the legal Secretary of ABF, who signed the MoU on behalf of the Foundation, said that the school was built on about two hectares of land with 24 classrooms.
She said that the school, which consists of both Primary and Secondary sections, has three laboratories, an ICT centre, Administrative Block, staff quarters and a Multipurpose Hall.
Buhari-Sheriff added that the intervention aimed to ensure quality education to students, whose parents died as a result of insurgency in the northeast.
She, therefore, expressed appreciation for the courage and understanding of the VSF and the Borno state government, for supporting the cause of the less privileged in the society.
On her part, the Executive Secretary, VSF, Prof. Nana Tanko, who signed the MoU on behalf of the fund, said that its focus was the victims of insurgency.
Tanko emphasised the need to support the educational needs of the children of IDPs, whose parents were killed during the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast, especially in Borno State.
” If we don’t take care of these orphans, they can also be recruited into criminality, so, institutions like this will cater to their educational needs.
”Education is a tool for empowerment, and also a tool that will ensure the next generation of our children will provide good leadership.
” That’s why we are here to sign the MoU to support the initiative and the college, especially seeing that the first lady has done so much in the school, the quality of the building shows how much resources she has committed into the project” she said.
The VSF scribe added that the MoU would, similarly ensure that the school’s teachers were well paid, laboratories are well furnished, to ensure a conducive learning environment for the orphans (NAN)
