By Ogechi Okorie
Abuja (Precise Post) – The Red Cross, Community Development Service (CDS) group, Wuse Zone of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has donated relief material to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) School of the blind, Jabi.
The group donated items which include food stuffs, detergents, clothing materials, exercise books, snacks and toiletries.
Also free medical outreach was carriwe out with the support of Red Cross groups and medical doctor.
The President of the NYSC-Red Cross CDS group, Derefaka Derefaka said that the gesture was aimed at supporting and providing support to the less privileged in the school.
“The whole idea is to give them hope and show them love, also to educates them on the disability act for them to know that disability should not be a challenge to them, but they should use it to develop themselves and impact Nigerians,” he said
In his remarks, the President of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Health Subgroup, CDS, Dr. David Ewelike, said that the aims for the donation is to support the mandate of (SDGs), also help the less privileged to ensure that no one is left behind to achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals of Mr President.
“SGDs encompasses everything from health to poverty, we are here to ensure that this children have the empowerment program embedded in them.
“And the mindset that they are not alone irrespective of the disability challenges that would make them feel like they are left behind,”
Similar, the Medical Leader of Red Cross CDS Dr. Uro Felix Obinna, noted that the children are talent which can be exploited, there are visually impaired should not be a challenges to them, for one of the six sense organs is alien which the other parts are still active to do better.
According to him, “We are telling the people in the FCT School for the blind that we are part of them, that they are not out of the question in Nigeria.
“We are all human beings, we are all part of this Nigeria and together we should remember that there are people like this that need our support, so from time to time, people should come around, share love and have fun with them”
