NGO tasks well meaning Nigerians on partnership for SDGs

A non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Blossom Africa Initiative, has challenged well meaning Nigerians to key into the achievements of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to take effect in Nigeria.

The group, which said this when it took the SDGs campaigns to Agidingbin Primary School, Ikeja, when it donated free school uniforms to indigent primary school pupils in Lagos State, said it is resolved to ensure the achievements of the SDG in the country.

The President of the group, Mr Tope Musowo, who led the group to the school, said they felt the need to intervene after seeing pupils wearing torn uniforms to schools.

According to him, the group decided to provide school uniforms in its bid to contribute toward realisation of the first SDGs which bothers on waging war against abject poverty ravaging the society.

“We are giving these uniforms to assist students whose parents are finding it difficult to change their worn-out dress. We became worried seeing some of these students in this situation.

“Wearing worn-out uniforms to schools has a way of affecting the psychology, emotion, self-esteem of these students, thereby affecting their students.

“It is poverty that makes students to go to school with torn uniform. We don’t just teach SDGs, we want to practise them.

“It is poverty for parents to see his children going to school bear footed and with torn uniform without doing anything about it, that is why we are doing this as our own contribution to the society.

“Government cannot do it all, well meaning Nigerians should rise up to ensure realisation of SDAs,” he said.

He said that the exercise would be replicated in other schools in fulfilment of the SDGs.