By Danjuma Attah, Gombe
A Lebanese expatriate working in Gombe State has supported Danbayo Community Foundation with over 500 teaching and learning materials worth thousands of naira.
Danbayo Community Foundation had embarked on a Community support project of supporting no fewer than 83,000 vulnerable children with learning and teaching materials for teachers in some public schools across the State.
Mr Georges Tenos Farhat, an expatriate worker with Triacta Construction Company, stated on Thursday during the distribution that he was supporting the Foundation because of his belief in helping the less privileged as well as support efforts in education of the vulnarable in the society.
So far, the Danbayo Community Foundation has gone round several schools in four out of the eleven Local Government Areas of the State since October with thousands of the teaching and learning supports, putting smiles on the faces of many of these children.
Aliyu Adamu, a 22 year old SSS3 student of Government Secondary school Nasarawo, also a person with disability, expressed happiness with the learning materials gifted to him.
Adamu, who is an apprentices in a shoe making shop after school hours, said the exercise books and other learning materials has encouraged him the more to continue with his studies up to University level. He said his interest is in becoming a teacher.
Speaking to our correspondent, Ambassador Yusuf Musa Danbayo, the CEO of Danbayo Community Foundation dissuaded insinuations of engaging in the project because of any political benefit.
He said, “I don’t have any political aspirations or vying for any election and no Government or traditional institution that is funding the project. I’m funding it out of my hard earned income and my farming activities.
“Today, in Nasarawo Nursery, Primary and Secondary School, we distributed eleven items which included: pencils, rulers, sharpeners, erasers, dusters, lesson plan books, 40 leaves exercise books, register books and white board markers among others”, he stated.
According to him, the motivation for the project is to sustain the cherished legacies of his late parents whom he wish and pray for them Aljannatul Firdaus.
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