By Bisola Adeyemo
The Victim Support Fund (VSF) Emergency Task Force on COVID-19 has donated three boreholes and sanitation facilities to three secondary schools in Nasarawa State over the spreading of COVID-19 cases across the country
The facilities were presented by the Chairman of the (VSF)Emergency Task Force on COVID-19, Mrs. Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji for benefiting schools at the Government Science Secondary School, Wamba, in the Wamba Local Government Area of the state.
The benefitting schools in the state are Government Science Secondary School, Wamba; Government Secondary School, Kekura; and Government Secondary School, Panda.
According to Akerele-Ogunsiji, “Each of the three benefitting schools is to receive a solar-powered borehole, four handwashing stations, and 2,000 pieces of reusable masks.
Toyosi Akerele stated that each school will also be given five pieces of four-liter hand sanitizers, 120 bottles of 500ml liquid hand wash, and five cartons of bleach.
She said: “The organisation is concerned about the plight of students and teachers, especially in densely populated areas. The handwash stations have been set up in the schools and the schools have been supplied with liquid hand wash, sanitisers, and bleach.”
“We will continue to provide succour to vulnerable Nigerians as well as institutional support to agencies involved in the fight against COVID-19,” she added
In a welcome address, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Fatu Jimaita Sabo, said the state has procured and distributed liquid soap, sanitizers, hand-washing buckets, infrared thermometers, First Aid boxes, with the medicament as well as masks to about 418 public secondary schools in the state to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
