Dominican Preachers Unveils 100% Scholarship for Indigent Children

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The Dominican preachers under the aegis of Society for Vocation Support (SVS) have established a college in Abuja to help indigent children and out-of-school children with 100% scholarship.

Prior Provincial, Dominican Province of St Joseph the Worker (Nigeria and Ghana), Rev. Richard Ogedegbe unveiled this initiative in Abuja yesterday alongside the Coordinator of the Dominican College, Fr. Stephen Ogbe.

At the unveiling yesterday, Ogedegbe said the SVS would give indigent children 100,% scholarship to out-ofschool children to attend the Dominican College, Abuja

He said: “It is our own way of reducing the number of out of school children. Our desire is to use DominicanCollege,Anini,Kwali,Abujaas a platform to further bridge the education gap between children from economically stable backgrounds and those whose families are economically disadvantaged.

To this end, the cleric disclosed that the society had established the Indigent

Scholarship Trust Fund (ISTF), to take care of as many out of school children as possible.

He said: “The order of preachers seeks every opportunity to advance the case of holistic development and formation of the human person in any way possible. Establishing and running academic institutions is one of our domains of achieving this.”

Also at the unveiling, Ogbe said the ISTF “is to assist poor kids get free education. The Dominican Society came upwiththecollegeinorder to give free education to all indigent children who may never be able to afford private schools.

“The Dominican society is right at the forefront of trying to see that many of our children are educated. We are flagging out today the Indigent Scholarship Trust Fund.

“The number of children we are going to pick will depend on how much people are willing to help. People can decide to adopt children, if you adopt a child all we need from you is to contact us and we will tell you what it takes to keep the child in school.