As part of efforts to improve the quality of teaching in the country, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has donated learning materials for pupils in basic schools in Taraba State.
Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh , represented at the presentation event by Kefas Kubuza William, a Public Relations Officer from the Agency, said the gesture was part of NIMASA’s efforts to support the education of children in the state.
Dr. Jamoh also noted that the agency had procured medical equipment to also boost primary health care services in the state and advised benefiting clinics to make judicious use of the equipment to enhance health care services to the indigent people.
In his words, “This is part of the Agency’s ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative across the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT. If we succeed in helping to ensure that some students improve academically, we would have made a difference.
“I want to appeal that the materials donated today be used judiciously to give the children the best,” he urged.”
For his part, the Director of Relief, Taraba State Emergency Management Agency, Anthony Danu, said unavailability of teaching and learning equipment in public schools was a major challenge for basic education in the state.
Danu listed some of the equipment donated by NIMASA to include; desktop computers, printers, whiteboard, markers, assorted textbooks, writing materials, exercise books, food flasks, school bags, sandals and sucks, among others.
Headmaster of Howai Primary school, one of the benefiting schools, Sa’ad Yakubu thanked NIMASA for supporting education in the state adding that the items would go a long way in supporting the school in its day-to-day teaching and learning,
He assured that the school would judiciously utilize the items for the good of the pupils and educational development in the state.
Aside from education materials, the agency also donated medical equipment including; stethoscope, clinical thermometer, pulse tester, delivery kits, hand sanitizers, beds and bed sheets and drip stand among others.
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