It was an exciting moment for pupils, parents and teachers at the Police Children Primary School, Ikeja, Lagos, as a non-governmental organisation, the First British Charity Home Foundation, donated writing materials, and paid fees for less privileged pupils and orphans at the school.
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About 20 pupils who lost their parents and widows whose husbands died in the line of duty were immediate beneficiaries. Founder of the foundation, Evans Uchendu, said he was moved by passion to undertake the gesture.
 
He said: “For some time, I have consciously noticed the security challenges that led to the death of some police officers and other security personnel. These officers have left their wives and children helpless. And looking at it from a compassionate angle, these children need to be in school. Who is going to cater for them? The economic situation is getting worse. People can no longer feed, let alone pay school fees.
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“So, if I am struggling to pay children’s school fees, what about a poor widow whose husband died trying to protect our territorial integrity. How about the children whose parents are both dead? That is why I decided that we should pay their school fees, pay their PTA levies, and provide some educational materials for them. This is just to ease the stress of ‘where will the school fees come from?’” 
   
He added: “Then the orphans…looking at it from the security perspective, if these  children grow up without an education and realise later that their parents died fighting for the country, and both the country and prominent Nigerians could not put them through basic education, such thought could heighten insecurity in the future.”
   
Responding, the head teacher of the school and assistant director of education, Ngozi Nkem Nwachukwu, expressed appreciation to the founder. She said: “Widows are going through hell. I am a widow. I lost my husband two years ago, but I am far better than my mother; at least, I am educated. But it is not easy. For you to have remembered these children and come to pay their school fees, you don’t know what you have done. God will always remember you.”
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