Daily Independent Online.
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Friday, August 13, 2004.
Aero backs school project
By Rotimi Durojaiye
Aviation
Correspondent, Lagos
As part of its
social responsibility to the society, one of the country’s foremost
airlines, Aero Contractors, is providing scholarship to pupils from its school
project at the Kirikiri community, Lagos.
Deputy Managing
Director of the airline, Captain Dapo Olumide, said in Lagos that the first set
of pupils in the school, who started six years ago, have now completed their
studies.
According to him,
“12 children have been accepted into secondary school. And if the parents
can’t pay, we will help them with the tuition fees. This is very
important, because a good education will give these children a good start in
life.”
A business
manager in a civil engineering industry, Mr. Dick Francis, took the initiative
to start a school for the poor in the Kirikiri community out of concern for the
fate of the children about six years ago.
The first
building was an old warehouse, but the school had to move from the location
last year. Since then, the school has continued to operate, using the choir cubicles of St.
Joseph’s Church compound.
Aero was said to
have got wind of this and decided to support the project with the wife of the
airline’s Business Development Manager, Mrs. Veronica Snoxell, helping
with the project since last year.
