A foundation based within the Osun State College Of Technology (OSCOTECH), Esa-Oke has donated a sum of N100,000 to an indigent student of the institution planning to commit suicide over inability to pay school fees.
The cash will now help to assist her continue her academic pursuit in the institution.
Giving out the donation in the Institution’s main campus recently, the Rector of the Institution, Dr. Samson Adegoke made history when he presented a cheque of N100,000 to the lucky student, Miss Aluko Abosede Jumoke, a National Diploma 2 in the Department of Science Laboratory Technology on behalf of members of OSCOTECH Foundation.
The Director of media of the institution, Dr. Wale Oyekanmi, in a statement sent to PMParrot said “the beneficiary of the donation from the Institution’s foundation was rescued by some good Samaritans when she attempted to commit suicide because she was unable to pay her school fees while the school’s examination was going on in the College”.
Oyekanmi maintained that the foundation is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) established by the staff members of the Institution and financed through donations from their salaries”.
He further explained that the first philanthropic gesture by the foundation was the feeding of the less privileged in seven communities around the Institution which are Esa-Oke, ÃŒjẹ̀bú-Jẹ̀ṣà , Ilóko-ÃŒjẹ̀sà , Ijeda, ÃŒwòye-ÃŒjẹ̀sà , Esa- Odo, Ère-ÃŒjẹ̀sà and EtÃ-Ã’nà during the Covid-19 lock down experienced in the year 2020.
While speaking during the formal presentation of the foundation’s donation, the Rector appreciated all those who donated to the foundation and appealed to those who are yet to be part of the initiative to do so”.
Adegoke seized the opportunity to appeal to all indigent students of the College to seek assistance from kind hearted Nigerians instead of planning to end their lives.
The Rector also reiterated that there will be a general test for all indigent students in the institution, while the successful ones will be given scholarships to pursue their programmes in the institution from the beginning of this academic session.
The mother of the student was equally present at the ceremony with members of the Rector-in-Council.
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