Pepc Foundation Supports Students With Educational Materials In Lagos -

Kunle Adelabu

Barr. Luqman Akinsanya, founder, Pepc Foundation with members of his team in group photograph with beneficiaries of the group’s ‘back to school’ initiative in Lekki Local Council Development Area, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria.

The much awaited ‘Back to School’ initiative of the Pepc Foundation, a Non – Governmental Organisatiion (NGO) based in Nigeria and United States of America (USA), which has been impacting across councils in Lagos State with its humanitarian gestures for about five years, kicked –off on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

The team has been distributing educational items such as school bags, socks, branded exercise books, calculators, pencils, pens, erasers and sharpeners, as part of the foundation’s educational support for school children’s resumption annually.

About 400 students were presented with school items at the Lekki Local Council Development Area (LCDA), while about 600 students benefitted from the gesture in Ibeju Lekki Local Government.

Beneficiaries of the Back to School educational materials with the Pepc team in Ibeju Lekki Local Government.

Requests for the educational support materials were made across the state by residents who have been benefitting from the foundation’s gesture over the years.

Barr. Luqman Akinsanya, the founder, Pepc Foundation, speaking at the kick –off of the distribution at Lekki LCDA, thanked the council for accommodating his team to impact on the community, while also promising to make the humanitarian gesture a continuous exercise.

“This is our first (where the foundation started the distribution exercise this year) and we are happy for that because it is a good start. I want to thank the Chairman and everyone here present for their attendance”, he said.

“It’s quite overwhelming for me because you hardly see things like this. Moving forward, I want to promise this Local Government that this will not be our last visit here. We would continue to partner with you and show our love”.

Barr. Akinsanya addressing large number of students before the distribution of the educational materials to them in Lekki LCDA on Tuesday.

Akinsanya, who said that the back to school packs are meant to encourage students to go to school, also charged them to be attentive to their parents and teachers and face their studies.

He also encouraged them to see the need to give back to the society when they too are in a position to do so.

“Students, today is your day. We are presenting to you back to school packs. These packs comprise of school bags and all the writing utensils that you would need – pencils, pens erasers, sharpners, school socks and exercise books”, he said.

“I want you to understand something today, that it’s not all about the school packs that you will be given, but about how much attention you should pay in class. You must make sure that you listen to your parents and teachers.

“What we are doing today, myself and all my colleagues are given back to you and make sure that you remember this. When you grow older and you have more than enough, always remember to give back to your community”, he charged the students.

Representative of the Chairman, Ibeju Lekki LG, Hon. Temitope Ogungbo, Supervisory Councilor for Education (middle) presenting the Pepc Foundation’s ‘Back to School’ items to a students. With them, Barr. Luqman Akinsanya, founder, Pepc Foundation (2nd right), Alhaji Kola Akinsanya, father of the founder and a Special Adviser to the Ibeju Lekki LG Chairman (right( and Mr Monzor Akinsaya, the founder’s brother (2nd left).

Hon. Rasaki Bamidele Kasali, Chairman, Lekki LCDA, while expressing his appreciation, also asked the foundation to do more for his council.

“The Pepc foundation deserves out appreciation for whatever that they are bringing. God will continue to bless them and like Oliver Twists, we will continue to ask for more.

Mr Oladele Ajayi, the APC candidate for the Ibeju Lekki Constituency II and former Special Adviser to the Governor on Commerce & Industry, said that the founder of the foundation is contributing his part to the development of the community through his humanitarian gesture.

“Many of you do not know that Barr. Luqman Akinsanya, the founder of Pepc Foundation which is a United States based organisation, is from Ibeju Lekki. He is here to contribute his own quota to the development”, he said.

Hon. Rasaki Bamidele Kasali, Chairman, Lekki LCDA presenting the ‘Back to School’ pack to a student during the distribution exercise in his council on Tuesday. With him, Mr Oladele Ajayi, APC candidate for Ibeju Lekki Constituency seat in the Lagos State House of Assembly and former Special Adviser to the Governor (3rd right front row), Mr Babatunde Adedayo, APC Chairman, Lekki LGA (2nd right), Secretary to the Council (right) and others.

“I am happy and want to sincerely thank you for looking inward and counting this Local Government as part of your project.

“We want more NGOs to support us the way they (Pepc foundation) is supporting us”.

In his own remarks, Hon. Abdullahi Sesan Olowa, the Chairman, Ibeju Lekki Local Government, speaking at the Magbon Alade Grammar School, where the foundation also distributed educational materials, equally, commended the Foundation for the exemplary gesture.

Hon. Temitope Ogungbo, Supervisor for Education, Ibeju LG, also speaking, said that:

“We appreciate you for bringing these to our pupils in lbeju Lekki Local Government and whoever that gives will never lack. God will never make you lack. Your foundation is still very young but it would grow”, he said.

some of the students with their packs at Lekki LCDA.

“We know that your intention is to support these students to also grow in life and I pray that they too would reach heights that they will be able to give back.

“These gifts include bags, writing materials and exercise books. They are being giving to you to take to your school and ensure that you are good students”, he added.

Also, students and parents across the two councils thanked Pepc Foundation for the gesture.