Sen. Orji commends Miss UN World Habitat Queen over free school materials to pupils

The Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial district, Senator Theodore Orji, at the weekend, commended Miss UN World Habitat queen, Miss Ijeoma Stella Chikezie, for giving out free school materials to pupils in the state.

Sen. Orji, who was represented by a former Commissioner for Works under his administration, Mr. Longman Emeka Nwachukwu, expressed happiness as the winner of UN World Habitat pageant comes from his constituency, stated his readiness to partner with Miss Chikezie over her ‘Help Keep Clean Foundation’ to ensure the success of the foundation to make the senatorial district better.

This assurance came during the free donation and presentation of school materials to pupils of Ugba Community Primary School, Umuahia, as the Senator urged her to go beyond where she is to project the image of the district in particular, the state and the country in general.

Touring schools in the senatorial district, the Miss UN World Habitat winner said she intends to go round the entire 17 local government areas of the state where she will teach the pupils on how to take care of their personal hygiene.

Speaking to pupils during the presentation of the materials at the Ugba community primary school, Miss Chikezie said: “When washing our hands, we have to wet our hands first, apply soap and scrub our palms, finger nails, the back of our hands, in between our fingers and our wrists. We also have to tell our parents that we cannot do anything in the house without washing our hands first”,

She later gave out exercise books to all the pupils of the primary school, school sandals, shoes and school bags to selected indigent pupils, who were chosen by the school authority.

In her remark, the assistant head teacher of Ugba Community Primary School II, Mrs. Hope Kalu, expressed joy that the Miss UN World Habitat, Nigeria had decided to give back to the indigent pupils in her school instead of gallivanting from one place to the other.

Mrs. Kalu said that her coming with her team has made it easier for them, the teachers in the school, to teach the pupils hygiene, stressing that the practical way she demonstrated to the pupils on how to wash their hands will help them to do it better when they get home.

Meanwhile, the head teacher of Ugba Community Primary School l, Mrs. Florence Ebeniro, said that the school and pupils were happy to have the group in their school and used the opportunity to call on other public spirited people to follow Miss Chikezie’s footsteps in educating the pupils.

Mrs. Ebeniro pledged to tell the teachers to go ahead and inculcate the habit of washing of hands by the pupils every time, adding that with the gift of school materials that it will improve the school enrollment in public schools.

Pupils who spoke with newsmen after the event, including Miss Chinwendu Ede and Miss Ezinne Sunday said they learnt a lot with the visit of the UN World Habitat Nigeria Queen, promising to put all they learnt into practice.

In her interaction with newsmen, the Queen, Miss Ijeoma Stella Chikezie, said that even before she was crowned the UN World Habitat Nigeria Queen, that she had the passion for hygiene and sanitation which made it very easy for her to teach the pupils, stating, “After I was crowned Miss UN World Habitat Nigeria Queen, I took up the task of teaching the pupils and leading the awareness campaign about hygiene with great focus on washing of hands and general environmental cleaning”.

You see washing of hands is very necessary because it is through such places that children contract different types of diseases as most Nigerian children eat with their bare hands, so the need to wash and keep their hands clean cannot be over emphasised,” she added.