ERNEST BEBENIMIBO FOUNDATION’S PHENOMENAL TRIP TO BOBOUGBENE PRIMARY SCHOOL BOBOUGBENE, A REKINDLING HOPE TO RIVERINE PUPILS IN DELTA

By Asiayei Enaibo

Let me begin this article with three distinctive scholars of ages which ideas live in the minds of mortality.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”– Socrates

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey

Education is that fundamental bedrock of civilization, education empowers us to be bold and independent with self- realization, education is that key that propels us to have confidence, a key that has the powers to access the universe with awareness, Education is power, and those without the keys of educational power, their keys are been used by others with unconnected explanations while they quickly milk the honey until it becomes an empty container, those who support education has planted a seed of light in the lives of others.

The Ernest Bebeminibo Foundation has pointed a torchlight to pupils of the coastal schools which fashioned a new roadmap to access the inaccessible places and made pupils and students to smile, that alone is an archival Hallmark in history.

Ernest Bebenimibo foundation has dug a new foundation in Bobougbene Primary school where pupils doped out from their watered school with laughter beyond joy, happiness unlimited, jaws dug with holes of smiles, parents stood akimbo without questions in their heart, this one nor be election books that lured people to vote, but a practical humanitarian show of concern, that is why the phenomenal thank you note on behalf of the Community and the primary school is laced from heart to mouth to the great works of Ernest Bebenimibo foundation, a donation made to Bobougbene Primary School is the new story that watered my words to write.

Why won’t I ring a bell of good deed to summon all the ancestors of Bobougbene community to bless Ernest Foundation? Why won’t I make noise full of happiness, as good news don’t often widespread like the harmattan widefire, but if it is a bad story, the whole world will lace their shoes of blame, yes Ernest Bebenimibo Foundation was the first to visit Bobougbene Primary, School in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State to distribute school materials, such as bags, note books and other educational materials in their yearly project tagged, “Street to school Project 2023” in , Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, the Chairman of Burutu LGA must hear this for the upward paternership of the Foundation to assist the local government in reaching out to schools in the coastal areas.

Like a playful wind, softly came, a trip people hardly find pleasure to embark upon, not even UNESCO Educational support system has come to coastal areas of Burutu Riverine people, it was a move first of it kind, if this is how Government could come to places to do things without no big name influence, then most of us would have stop the cries of annual flood invasion in our communities. Keen to the plight of the people and bringing measures to help the people is key in humanity school of life

It was just a call I received, I am about going to Burutu LGA to distribute school materials, your community has been selected, unmade recommendations, I thought it was a joke, just direct us to the school a task you should assist us” I thought he just want to visit the community and see
Bobougbene Primary School Bobougbene as GbaramatuVoice Flood Food bank often visits it in every flood ravaging period to distributes food items, yes, in this period of economic meltdown where parents find it difficult to even eat, the Ernest Bebenimibo foundation came to assist under their voluntary mandate of helping pupils in schools as their core value” “our core message to the children is that they should be hopeful because, surely their tomorrow will be greater than today if they work hard, maintain focus, read their books and learn a skill” a rekindled hope to inspire the younger generation.

The Primary School has been pushed to the edge of annual flood break with broken chairs and floor digged by ravaging flood every year, then Government officials closed their eyes away from us as we become unlookers. But on the 21st of September 2023, the good news came, books, bags, other writing materials to all the pupils of Bobougbene primary school including those ones who are yet to go to school came in their numbers without a word could embrace the books and the bags, and parents were seen going home with joy. What a great day of hope?

When the wind of favour blows, it is harmless, gently blown into the windows where those without fans can feel the Joy of nativity in Nature, that is how the pupils of Bobougbene Primary School Bobougbene, became Joyful to have received donations from Ernest Bebenimibo foundation, the first NGO to have made a donation to the school since it establishment in the year 2000, as the Talking Drum of the Niger Delta region, those who’ve done good to my people has done good to me and humanity, there is only one language to say to those who do good, “Thank You, Dooo! and May God continue to uplift the Ernest Bebenimibo foundation and the entire team for their humanitarian services.”

Communities should continue to support the Foundation, a well meaning Nigerians should support the Foundation, Government should paterner with them to enable them go to places, I saw happiness on the face of children who received gifts, and I saw pure hearts praying from their unsinned thoughts.

To the Donors, those who have been supportive to the Foundation, may God continue to bless you also, for you all will continue to experience full tide in your lives.

However, I beseech the Government and other agencies to key into their visions and reach out to more people in the coastal communities in the Niger Delta schools as Bobougbene primary school Bobougbene, ward 7 Ayakoromo in Burutu local Government Area of Delta state become testifiers of the Ernest Bebenimibo Foundation. May their canoe sail safely in this pathway of creating a helping hand.

Asiayei Enaibo
The Talking Drum
Writes from GbaramatuVoice