By Kadiri Christopher
The Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Benin City has recently produced the best two overall students of the Edo University, Uzairue, Edo State.
Addressing newsman in Benin, the coordinator of the International Christian Center, Home for the Needy which also serves as the IDP camp, said, "I am so happy. I am happy because I always believe in these students and I believe that when given the opportunity, every human being can become the best in every given career in life. So it is a great joy for me and everybody is beginning to see what this place is about and what we are doing here. We are giving moral training, educational training, we are loading them with knowledge, letting them know that the world is before then. They were brought here in order to change their lives for good. So, I am so happy, so so happy.
"There are more coming. Every year, they are making their papers. When you come here in the evening, you see them under the trees reading, studying and focusing very hard. With these results (from Edo University) they are so inspired. Nobody is going to tell them now. They know that success is just the only thing left for them and they are ready to hit it high.
"This Home of the Needy can now be tagged a 'Success Camp'. It is a success center established to bring success to lives that have failed, vulnerable lives, rejected lives, poor people and displaced ones too and that's why it is called Home for the Needy. Everyone who has a need for education, need for home, need of parents, need of any kind can come here to get it. It is truly a success center.
"We use love to achieve success here. We love them. There's no big man here. Everyone is important. Everyone is equal. The love and care has placed everyone above segregation. The room I stays, everyone comes in freely. No tribal sentiment. We show God's love to them. That's the motivation.
"Another way of motivation is letting them know that whoever they see today in high places, is a product of hard work. So if they can work hard, they will achieve something.
"People come from all works of life to encourage them. These are great motivations.
"In another five years, Nigeria and the world will have a great harvest of intellectuals. We are training every profession here. Nigeria and the world is going to say thank you to the Home for the Needy because it is a fertile ground. Even the sports will say thank you to the Home of the Needy. You need to come see stars, footballers, basketballers, netballers, table tennis players, handballers among others. Everyone is being groomed to become a success. So we are going to release to the world, the best.
"The school they just graduated from is quite expensive and we will love to put them in the best schools in the world. We just survive by donations from kind-hearted people volunteering to pay for one or more persons. Yes, the school is very expensive, but we sacrifice everything we have. As you look at me now, I don't even have a car and when some persons are asking me where they can come in, I simply let them know we have students they can cater for their academic needs and when the person picks that up, it gives me joy. So, we don't look at the costs, we look at the future", he said.
Pastor Folorunsho expressed that those passing through the Home of the Needy will definitely grow and give back to the society, compared to what has been spent on them.
It will be recalled that two persons from the Home of the Needy emerged the overall students of the Edo State University, Uzairue, Edo State and the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki offered them automatic employment into the university with immediate effect.
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