• JDPC NSUKKA EXAMINS AND OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIGENT BUT INTELLIGENT STUDENTS

Indigent Students undergoing their diocesan scholarship exams

To foster quality education among indigent but intelligent students in Nsukka Diocese, JDPC Nsukka organized a scholarship exam within the diocese and the best performed student was picked for a secondary school scholarship. Fifteen (15) students were successful and were taken for the scholarship scheme. Also in collaboration with the Bishop four (4) girls were given scholarship in Mario Institute of Entrepreneur to study and be trained in any vocation and skills of their choice. These children were from households that are in a real destitute and could not train their children in education. However, the scholarship scheme is part of the organization’s yearly program for indigent but intelligent students within the diocese.

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  CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL LOCKERS AND DESKS, TABLES, AND LIBRARY SHELVES WORTH 4.7 MILLION NAIRA AT OHODO MISSIONARY SCHOOL
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Images of the students school desk at Ohodo community

Through collaborations and partnerships, JDPC Nsukka got support from one of its partners for the construction of ninety (90) iron lockers and seats; sixty (60) primary school desks; five Office tables with drawers for teachers; seventeen (17) padded Office armless chairs; twelve (12) Office tables without drawers for teachers; and three library shelves which are all worth a total of four million, seven hundred and twenty nine thousand naira only (4,729,000). This project has been completed and handed over to the management of the school for their student’s usage.

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  CONSTRUCTION OF 40 SCHOOL DESKS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN AKPA EDEM BASED ON NEEDS ASSESSMENT

With the help of ACCESS OVC project and funds from other stakeholders of JDPC Nsukka, the organization implemented block grant project in collaboration with CCFN by constructing forty (40) school desks for primary school pupils in one public school in Nsukka based on need assessment provided by the school. The project was carried out in Community Primary School Akpa-Edem.

This project which costs the organization the sum of (N2,560,000.00) were to grant school fees waiver to the children enrolled in the project as Orphans and Vulnerable Children. Also, to ensure that those children and other children in the school participate and have good relaxation in the class. The school were selected after series of needs assessment done by the organization to several schools in Nsukka. It was discovered that the pupils in the school were still sat on bare floor to receive classes. JDPC Nsukka after constructing the40 school desks then handed them to the school for use by the pupils.

LINKAGE OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ BOYS AND GIRLS INTO VOCATIONAL/SKILL TRAINING

Justice Development and Peace/Caritas Commission (JDPC) Nsukka with the help of ACCESS OVC project and funds from the funders and other stakeholders of JDPC Nsukka, conducted household assessment and identified seventeen (17) vulnerable children who are not in school. These children were profiled and linked into different vocational/skill training of their choice. Also the organization procured and supported them with start-up tools which would help them to engage fully into the training. The start-up kits cost the organization about Two million eight hundred and ninety-five thousand five hundred naira only (N2, 895,500).

Payment of WAEC fees of Orphans and vulnerable children from poor families

JDPC Nsukka found that many families within the Diocese could not afford the cost of their children’s school resumption due to economic instability in the country. And many parents who managed to squeeze out water from the rock to ensure their children resumed, could not afford the WAEC and examination fees of these their children which led to them being thrown away as out of school dropout. The organization paid for the WAEC and examination fees of 42 students whose parents could not afford the bills.

Re-enrollment of out of schoolchildren back to school

Re-enrolment is the process of returning to school after an absence. Some are being dropped out due to in-efficient fund of the households to take care of the children and to put them in school to attend and progress in the basic education, some were most indigent that they cannot even afford what to eat in daily basis talk more of taking their children to school. Some of the beneficiaries

supported in the intervention. However, with the help of ACCESS OVC project and some other funders, Justice Development and Peace/Caritas commission (JDPC) Nsukka re-enrolled 11 out-of-school children back to school, these children comprised of 5 males and 6 females. Out of which three (3) were re-enrolled back to secondary school while eight (8) were re-enrolled back to primary school. These children were found to come from families in real destitution and whose parents could not afford the school fees of their children. After a serious household assessment and validation, the organization deemed it fit to support the households by re-enrolling their children back to school.