Foundation celebrates children’s day for Enugu schools, donates exercise books
Chuks Nweze
A non-governmental organisation, NGO, based in Abuja, SIX J, in collaboration with JOFMAK & SIX JS restaurant, marked the 2026 Children’s Day with fifteen schools in Amokwu-Affa, Udi local government area of Enugu state.
The 15 schools, which comprised 9 primary schools and 6 secondary schools, were gifted with exercise books running into millions of Naira at the occasion which took place at the Community Secondary School, Amokwu-Affa field.
Apart from the gift items, prizes were given to pupils and students that excelled in sports displayed at the occasion which include Relay Race, Sack Race and Egg in a spoon race and march past.
A pep talk was given to the students and pupils on the dangers of indulging in bad companies as well as drug abuse capable of ruining their lives at early stage in their lives.
They were made to know that people who made it in life in different professions, industries, skills and politics were able to do so because they did not allow illicit drugs to destroy their lives and urged them to shun drugs.
Speaking at the occasion, a volunteer with SIX J, Nwabueze Anthony Sunday, said that for the past three years, the organisation has been carrying out humanitarian services in the area, making donations to schools, and giving gifts to the elderly and widows.
Nwabueze, explained that the essence of coming to the community was to celebrate the 2026 Children’s Day with them and to enlighten them to be of good character.
“The aim of coming here, in this children’s day is because some schools in the urban areas, there are things they enjoy which the ones in the rural areas do not enjoy because they do not have the opportunity.
“So, when you have a kind of festive period like this, the world childrens day which is being celebrated once in a year, the ones in the rural areas will miss the opportunity but the ones in the urban areas will enjoy it. In other words, when the two of them meet, those ones lack what the other ones have.
“Having understood that government is the one sponsoring the ones happening at the urban areas, we now decided as an organisation to do for them here what is being done for those in the urban areas,” he said.
He went on, “We have up to nine primary schools and six secondary schools benefiting from the Children’s Day celebration going on here, on the whole, 15 schools. We are not talking about the nursery schools. They are here but we didn’t include them.
“We have been doing it for schools in the rural areas for about three years now. Another reason for doing it is to, you see someone who are educated in the rural areas may not know certain things like how to take care of themselves and be of good behaviour. Some indulge in drug abuse and some other things and we use the opportunity to sensitise them on the dangers of such practices and acts. We also educate them on job careers so that they will become men and women of substance in future,” he said, pointing out that the celebration would benefit the students in that they would be counseled on how to choose their career and not to be inferior when they meet those in the urban areas.