BCCF Partners UNIZIK To Give Hope To Indigent Students
The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, on Thursday, disclosed its agenda to collaborate with ‘Beyond Community Care Foundation’ (BCCF), a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation, to improve the welfare of students and offer aid to the underprivileged ones in a novel Town and Gown relationship.
Tagged: “Exploring Emerging Opportunities in Media and Communication”, the BCCF started with the department of Mass Communication with the Head of Department Professor Chinwe Uzochukwu hailing the founder, Chief Dennis Ezebuilo for “developing and empowering people whoever they are and wherever they are”.
She said the programme is part of her departmental event this year titled: ‘Town and Gown series’ which will bring a valuable interface between classroom and industry.
In his speech, the spokesman of BCCF Onuora Aninwobodo said the founda6is determined to provide access to health coverage for the sick, aged and rural poor in various communities across the country.
But as a take-off, the foundation is starting with education saying that it is “poised to providing access to quality education for the brilliant poor but disadvantage children and improve the standard of education in the state”.
Aninwobodo said the Foundation had footed the bills of over 500 Almagirai and has recently given a scholarship to an amputee to the university level.
He said this is so because it is their firm belief that every sector of public life must be deeply involved in the efforts at reducing poverty in the land.
The former head of department and first female professor of mass communication, Chinyere Stella Okunna hailed the partnership as a good beginning that will bear more fruits as it progresses.
Hajia Mariamu Bello who was a member of the Foundation said the programme began in the Northern part of Nigeria because the founder lived and made his money in the North.
