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An Abuja-based Non-Governmental Organization, NGO, SIX J, in collaboration with JOFMAK Restaurant and SIX JS, celebrated Children’s Day 2026 with fifteen schools in Amokwu-Affa, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The 15 schools, which included 9 primary schools and 6 secondary schools, were gifted with notebooks worth millions of Naira at the occasion which took place at the Community Secondary School, Amokwu-Affa Camp.
In addition to the gift items, prizes were given to pupils and students who excelled in the sports presented for the occasion, including the relay race, the sack race, the egg race and the race walk.
A pep talk was given to the students and pupils on the dangers of bad company and drug abuse which can ruin their lives in the early stages of their lives.
They were made aware that people who made careers in different professions, sectors, skills and policies were able to do so because they did not allow illicit drugs to destroy their lives and urged them to avoid drugs.
Speaking on the occasion, a volunteer of SIX J, Nwabueze Anthony Sunday, said for the past three years, the organization has been carrying out humanitarian services in the area, donating to schools and giving gifts to the elderly and widows.
Nwabueze, explained that the essence of coming to the community was to celebrate Children’s Day 2026 with them and enlighten them to have good character.
“The purpose of coming here, on this Children’s Day, is because in some schools in urban areas there are things that they enjoy that those in rural areas don’t appreciate because they don’t have the opportunity.
“So, when there is a festive period like this, World Children’s Day which is celebrated once a year, those in rural areas will miss the opportunity, but those in urban areas will enjoy it. In other words, when the two meet, those miss what others have.
“Having understood that the government is the one sponsoring what happens in urban areas, we have now decided as an organization to do for them here what is being done for those in urban areas,” he said.
“We have up to nine primary schools and six secondary schools benefiting from the Children’s Day celebration going on here, in total, 15 schools. We are not talking about nurseries. They are there but we have not included them.”
“We have been doing this for schools in rural areas for about three years now. Another reason for doing so is that someone who is educated in rural areas may not know certain things, like taking care of themselves and behaving well. Some indulge in drug abuse and other things and we use the opportunity to sensitize them about the dangers of such practices and acts. We also educate them for business careers so that they become men and women of substance in the future,” he said, stressing that the celebration would benefit the students as they would be advised on how to choose one’s career and how not to be inferior when meeting those from urban areas.
