November 19, (THEWILL) – Taking a cue from his wife, Bola, who is a child advocate with a strong passion in helping sexually abused children through her foundation, the Cece Yara Foundation, oil tycoon, Wale Tinubu has also decided to give some attention to social interventions and areas that he thinks would make the greatest impact on the people.
The trained lawyer through his Oando Foundation, an independent charity to support the Federal Government in actualising its Universal Basic Education (UBE) goals, has taken a multifaceted approach to education that delivers a superior learning environment for both pupils and teachers alike.
The Foundation’s flagship programme in its Adopt-a-School Initiative (AASI), strives to address the needs of students, teachers, school leaders and the education community through infrastructure development, establishment of ICT/Creative centres, early childhood care and development centres, teacher capacity building and scholarship programs.
The foundation has adopted over 100 public primary schools across the country, enrolled over 60,000 out-of-school children, built and renovated 300 classrooms, distributing over 30,000 teaching and learning aids and the award of scholarships to brilliant, under-served children from adopted schools to transit and complete secondary school.
The group chief executive of Oando Plc said his reason for establishing the foundation is to make poverty of the mind a thing of the past in Nigeria, where opportunities would exist for every Nigerian child and to give access to quality basic education and the ability to lift themselves out of poverty.
