Anamero Foundation registers 1,000 students for SSCE

Edo State-based Anamero Idofe Anamero Foundation has assisted 1,000 indigent students in three councils that make up Etsako Federal Constituency in registering for next year’s West African Examination Council (WAEC)’s Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).

Students writing WAEC

Cheques covering the examination fees and other associated costs were presented to the students drawn from three communities across the Council in a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Foundation in Ogute-oke, Okpella in Etsako East Council.

A committee made up of university scholars and community leaders was set up to select the beneficiaries, some of whom narrated how difficult it had been for the guardians to pick the cost of their education.

The support is the latest of the education interventions of the Foundation in over two decades of its existence as a community-based charity organisation. The gesture, which has helped thousands of indigent children register for the examination, has become one of the yearly rituals the Foundation is known for.

Every year in the past two decades, the Foundation donates stationaries worth millions of naira as back-to-school support across the councils that make up the Edo North Senatorial District, the homeland of the Founder, Dekeri Sunday Anamero.

The Foundation has recently completed a block of a six-classroom project to be dedicated to a continuous education programme. A few years ago, two blocks of eight classrooms were donated to his Ogute-oke Secondary School (his alma mater) and another primary school.

Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole, commissioned the facilities, which include toilets and teachers’ offices.

The Foundation’s imprints in the form of boreholes, roads, community electrification and town halls are sited in different parts of Afemailand.

Speaking at the cheque-presentation ceremony, Anamero said the initiative was a fulfillment of his lifelong pledge in building a community where everybody is given opportunity to pursue their ambitions.

“It is my dream to see the beneficiaries achieve their dreams in life. We must do our parts to build a better society, where everybody is given the chance to achieve their goals,” Anamero, who is also contesting for the House of Representatives in next year’s election, said.

He said the desire for education for all, community development, youth/women empowerment and justice for the less privileged, is the motivation for his venture into politics, which he describes as a tool for social emancipation and economic empowerment.

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