Over thirty students from selected secondary schools in Awka South Local Government Area have received training in basic skills in Information Communication Technology, ICT.
The students also received brand new laptops to help them put into practice what they learnt in the training.
The training is one of the many development initiatives of a popular Philanthropist from Umuawulu community in the council area, Chief Christopher Ndubuisi, who has through his humanitarian programmes given hope to the poor, opportunities to the unreached and development to communities.
Some of his humanitarian services include empowering farmers, building churches, providing scholarship schemes to students across the country and abroad, free education to all children in his private school, among others.
Explaining the objectives of the training, Chief Ndubuisi highlighted that positively impacting the lives of young people at early stage will be of great benefit in reshaping their future and putting them on the right path of life, especially as it concerns empowering them with digital skills in a world that has become digitally – driven.
He encouraged the students to make good use of the laptops they received, and told teachers and principals of the various schools that the laptops are for the students’ personal use.
The trainer, Reverend Father Benjamin Odika, who is also the Parish Priest of Saint Joseph Catholic Church, Umuawulu, took the students through the basic components, operations and maneuvers in a computer system.
Earlier in her opening remark, the Permanent Secretary, Anambra State Ministry of Education, Dr. Ifeoma Agbaizu, appreciated Chief Ndubuisi for always supporting the state government in the areas of education and up-skilling the young ones digitally, saying that the training is a clear definition of what Governor Chukwuma Soludo calls “public private community partnership” model of development.
She called on the teachers present at the event to take the knowledge they garnered and grow other students who did not have the opportunity to attend the training.
On their parts, the Chairman, Post Primary School Service Commission, PPSSC, Anambra State, Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, who spoke through the Board member in-charge of Awka Education Zone, Dr. Uche Okeke, and the Zonal Director of Education, Awka Zone, Mrs Ngozi Chukwujekwu, eulogised the benefactor for his unwavering support towards education across the state.
They cautioned the students against misusing the laptops, but to use them to develop themselves.
Other dignitaries who graced the occasion were the Assistant Director, National Space Research and Development Agency, Dr. Chukwujekwu Ofodum, and the Special Adviser to Governor Soludo on Innovation and Business Incubation, Ms Chinwe Okoli among others.
Questions and answers session, symbolic presentation of the laptops, certificate of attendance and an Anti-Virus software to the students formed the highpoints of the event.
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