Plan International Donates Health Materials to Bauchi Schools

By Idris Ayinde

Plan International, an humanitarian organisation, has donated some health club materials to 85 schools in Bauchi state to enhance the health status of students.

Mr Mohammed Musa, Senior Project Coordinator, Plan International, Bauch, stated this in Bauchi on Friday during the donation of the items.

He said that the event demonstrated the commitment of this Ministry of Education in harnessing all available resources for the attainment of high education standards for the children in the state through strategic partnership and carefully articulated interventions.

According to him, the gesture was the product of evidenced-based partnership that culminated from the first day the commissioner of education assumed office.

He highlighted some of the items donated to the selected schools to include; 4,225 packs of Menstrual Pads, 169 pieces of first aid boxes, 85 pieces of first Aid kits with supplies in them and 423 pieces of hand sanitizers.

Others he said included; 85 pieces of branded hijabs,165 pieces of football, 344 pieces of skipping rope, 84 packs of whiteboard marker, 169 pieces of white board stand and 85 pieces of small medical scissors.

“On behalf of Plan International, I extend our profound gratitude to the Ministry of Education for allowing us to support in this area and to pledge our continued support to the Ministry in their journey towards providing quality education to our teeming children in a healthy environment,” he said.

In her acceptance speech, the state Commissioner for Education, Dr Jamila Dahiru, said that the items would go a long way in assisting the students.

“I would like to thank them for not only believing in us to revive the health clubs, but also coming up with a manual that can be used in the various clubs.

“This gesture would allow us to have healthy students in our schools learning and becoming our proud future leaders,” she said.

Also speaking, the Executive Chairman Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alh Adamu Duguri, urged the management of the selected schools to ensure that the items were judiciously used for the purposes they were meant for.

He also advised them not to take the items to the market and sell them off.

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