Tonto Dikeh foundation gives scholarship to 345 FCT indigenes

Nollywood actress Mrs Tonto Dikeh said her foundation, Tonto Dikeh Foundation (TDF), has awarded scholarship to 345 indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in six months.

Dikeh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the gesture was to enable her contribute her quota to the intellectual development of youths in the country.

She said the students were sponsored under the foundation’s Back to School project which had also awarded scholarship to 200 students in Delta state.

She added that Cross River would be the next state that would benefit from the gesture, as Lagos state has benefitted already.

“The project was conceived with the idea of assisting the less privileged in realisation of the United Nations sustainable development goals in the area of education and mass literacy in Nigeria.

“It focuses on giving support to young girls who have been raped, molested or assaulted by giving hope to such young girls and providing help to them through our partners,” she said.

Dikeh said that 300 students in Karamajiji community, a suburb along Airport road in Abuja were given scholarship to further their education from primary to university level. SSCE and JAMB fees were also paid for some of the benefitting students.