Trump hosts 2 Chibok girls at White House

President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on Thursday, played host to the two Chibok school girls that escaped from the captivity of the Boko Haram insurgents in 2014 at the White House.

The girls, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, after the famous Chibok abduction, met the president in the company of his daughter, Ivanka Trump.

Bishara and Pogu were among the 57 girls who escaped from the terrorists after the mass abduction of about 300 of them at Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.

They were the only two who escaped from Sambisa forest few days after getting to the camp in 2014, before another girl, Amina Ali, escaped in 2015.

This is coming three years after terrorists interrupted their education during their final year in school in Borno State.

Bishara and Pogu graduated from Canyonville Christian Academy in Oregon in February 2017.

The girls, who are being sponsored by the Jubilee Campaign, a human rights group in Virginia, have gone on to open a GoFundme account to raise money for their university education at Southeastern University in Florida.

“Hello our names are Lydia Pogu and Joy Bishara. We are two of the girls that escaped the Boko Haram who attack our school in Chibok, Nigeria,” the duo said via GoFundme.

“We finally achieved our dream and have graduated from high school. We need funds for living expenses through the summer as we leave boarding high school, Canyonville Christian Academy for Southeastern University.”

The Daily Times recalls that several other girls had dropped out of EMC’s school abroad project after managing to graduate from middle school (8th grade) last year and are now attempting to take the GED exam (external GCE equivalent).