An Education altruist cum enthusiast, Engr Bart Nwibe, has fingered education as the singular tool that can cause the desired socioeconomic revolution in the country.
Meanwhile, he frowned at the what he described as the poor attitude of firms and government towards education in the country.
Engr Nwibe made this assertion while receiving a 15-man delegation of Anambra Teachers Forum, in his foundation office at Igboukwu, Aguata Local Govt. Area of Anambra state.
Nwibe also observed that education gives equal opportunity to everyone to attain any desired height in life.
He said that this is what informed the sustained effort of his foundation, Ugo Igboukwu Foundation, which has run for 15 years already with not less than 10000 young people from across Anambra state as beneficiaries.
Besides giving full scholarship to children who show a degree of academic brilliance, the Foundation also run an adult education program that equips disadvantage adults with literacy skills.
The chairman of the Teachers’ Forum led the 15-man delegation, Comrade Peter Ezekwe.
Ezekwe, in his introductory speech, narrated how the activities of Ugo Igboukwu Foundation has kept alive the dreams of countless bright children and youths from indigent homes in the state.
He said that this was why the forum members who are first hand observers of the effect of Bart Nwibe’s philanthropy have decided to collectively sought to encourage commend his efforts and encourage him to continue.
“Engr Bart Nwibe may not fathom the gravity of good he is doing in this state with his educational empowerment programs.
“But I stand here to say that there is no philanthropy greater that educational empowerment as it is the best way of doing the proverbial ” teaching how to fish”, as removed from the conventional hand-outs that most well-to-do but misdirected persons do these days,” Ezekwe enthused.
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