ABUJA – Mr Mike Omeri, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA) has commended a member of the NYSC, Mrs Amarachi Igwe, for providing a health centre for Gbaukuchi community.
Gbaubuchi is a rural community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Omeri made the commendation in Abuja on Tuesday at the inauguration of the health centre donated by the corps member serving in the community to the Kuje Area Council.
Represented by, Mr David Dogo, a Director in the agency, Omeri said the humanitarian gesture would not be lost on the community because it was a facility for saving lives of mothers and children.
He said that the corps member had been able to portray the philosophy of the agency’s “Do the right thing, Transform Nigeria’’ campaign.
Igwe is a batch `C’ corps member presently serving with the NOA.
“We are all proud of her achievement because it offers a practical example for others to emulate in offering selfless service to humanity.
“This is the kind of tradition the agency is building to show to the world that when people see a problem, it should offer an opportunity to offer service,’’ he said.
He called on youths in the community to also join in the course of contributing to the development of the nation by going to school to learn.
Omeri explained that learning about the facility would provide further opportunity for the community through the youths to further develop and maintain the project for future generations.
In her remarks, the Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, said the ministry would send health personnel to the centre in order to give the community good health care services at the facility.
Akinjide, represented by Malam Jibril Shaba, Acting Director, Community and Chieftancy Affairs, said that development was a gradual process and assured that development would get to other communities in the area.
She commended the corps member for achieving three out of the nine Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by providing a suitable health care facility for the community.
The goals include reduction of child mortality, improving maternal health and combating other diseases.
Akinjide also urged the community leaders to further capture the rehabilitation of schools and construction of more boreholes in the 2015 budget to enhance further development in the community.
Igwe had earlier said that the project was God-given initiative as well as a demonstration of sheer determination and doggedness in the effort to help the helpless in the rural community. [eap_ad_1] According to her, the main objective of coming to the community is to help in reducing maternal and child mortality.
She said that she was only encouraged by an ex-corps member, Mr Simon Obi, and the interaction with the community leaders which throw up the project in a course of discussion.
“In my interaction with the community, I observed that their pressing need is in the health care facility.
“I came to realise that for about 10 years, the community has been losing people very dear to them, including pregnant women and children due to the lack of a health facility.
“But with the platform of NYSC community development services, I summoned courage to embark on the project regardless of the numerous challenges I encountered in the effort to help generations yet unborn,’’ she said.
Mr Festus Onyenenne, representative of S.C.C Nigeria Ltd, a construction company, applauded the effort of the corps member for an outstanding work.
Onyenenne said that having seen the corps member’s proposal as it keyed into the organisation’s community and rural development project, the company took it up to help actualise the goal.
He, however, called on corporate bodies, religious organisations and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) to emulate the gesture to develop other rural communities in the country. (NAN)
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