Micro finance bank offers scholarship to girl with one leg

Date: 2012-02-17

A micro-finance institution in Kwara State, Self Reliance Advancement Economic Programme, (SEAP) Micro Finance, has offered a scholarship programme to a primary school girl with an amputated leg.

Speaking at a forum, titled, Cashless policy: Prospects and challenges, in Ilorin on Tuesday, the executive programme director of the non-governmental organisation, Deacon Olatunde Oladokun, said the gesture was part of the social responsibilities of the financial institution.

"Many people believe micro-finance institution is just for profit-making alone. In as much as it is good to make profit, social responsibility matters. When you take care of your members on your programme and touch lives, hence it is social responsibility to our immediate community.

"When the board of SEAP heard of the story as published in the Sunday Tribune newspapers, we decided to be socially responsible to the girl. We learnt Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom already gave her N1 million, so we thought we should give her a scholarship", he said.

Deacon Oladokun, who said the educational support to the girl would be extended to Junior Secondary School level, added that the board planned to do more as the institution expands.

He said the financial institution also hoped to present her with a mobile wheelchair to replace the wheelchair she is presently using with the assistance of people in pushing it about.

Also, a deep freezer was presented to a deaf and dumb lady that appealed for assistance from the SEAP micro finance institution by the director, who said that the gesture was aimed to set her up economically and to discourage the lady from going into prostitution or from becoming a nuisance to the community.

He said part of the social responsibility activities of the organisation included taking care of an orphan baby whose father died while the mother was in her pregnancy and the mother died too during delivery, while an aged grandmother was left to take care of the baby before the micro finance institution took up the care of the baby.

The event, which witnessed lecture on micro finance vis a vis how it could improve socio-economic life of informal sector, especially on CBN policy of cashless economy, saw professionals and people in academia brainstormed to enlighten the participants.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

SSUCOEN     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Tunde Akanbi     Isiaka Alikinla     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Garba Idris Ajia     Onilu     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Salary     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Sulyman Tejidini     Marufat Oladosu     Jaigbade Alao     Sulaiman Gado     Galadiman Ngeri     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Ahmad Uthman     Kunle Suleiman     Student Learning Support Helpline     Seun Bolaji     Busari Toyin Isiaka     KWASEIC     Rotimi Atere     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Ademola Kiyesola     Idowu Aremu     Ballah     Elekoyangan     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Risikat Lawal     Shade Omoniyi     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     COVID-19 Palliatives     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Yoonus Lawal     Umar Danladi Shero     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Hassan Saliu     Usman Alkali Baba     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     SGBN     Gbenga Awoyale     Agboola Abdulraheem     Democracy Day     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Bayer AG     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Abubakar Baba     Ita-Ore     Iyeru Grammar School     Kale Bayero     Abdullahi Samari     Najim Yaasin     Muhammed Akanbi     Okin Biscuit     Jumoke F. Ajao     Ayinde Oyepitan     Shettima Of Ilorin     Apado     Mazars Consulting     Unicontinental Construction Company     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Kwara North     Radio SBS     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Idris Garba     IYA ALFA NLA    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bashir Adigun     Kwara 2015     Ilorin Airport     Ojuekun     Obuh     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Federal Allocation     Manzuma     Principal Private Secretary     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Owo Isowo     Niyi Osundare     Sarah Alade     Lawal Olohungbebe     Village Alive Development Association     Umar Adelodun     Sadiq Buhari     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Bamidele Aluko     Bello John Olanrewaju     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Harafat E. Mukadam     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Muritala Olarewaju     Communication Network Support Services     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Ajayi Okasanmi     Kwara United     Iyiola Oyedepo     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Jaigbade Alao     Umar Danladi Shero     SSUCOEN     Rafiu Olasile     Kwasu     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Valsolar Consultoria     Kwabes     Oyun     Samuel Adaramola     Adekunle David Dunmade     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Olusegun Adeniyi     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Dele Belgore     PharmAccess Foundation     IYA ALFA NLA     Abdulwahab Ololele     Mike Omotosho     QuickWin     Abdulkarim Adisa     Wahab Egbewole     Ola Falade     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     John Obuh     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Shuaib Jawondo     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Lithium     David Adesina     Tafida Of Kaiama     Elerinjare     John Olajide Adedipe     GAMA     Oloye     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     AbdulHamid Adi     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Olaosebikan     National Association Of Nigerian Students