Nigeria Content Online

Nduka Elueunor, a
legal practitioner in Asaba, Delta State, has established a primary
school which offers free education to children from less privileged
families.

Located at Anwai,
the school, A-Nur Fountain Academy, began academic activities in
September and already has an enrolment of 410 pupils spread in the
kindergarten and primary sections.

Fifty per cent of
the pupils, according to the proprietor, are in the kindergarten, which
has three classes, while the remaining children are in the primary
unit. Elueunor told the News Agency of Nigeria that pupils in the
school were mainly from farm settlements in Anwai community and
environs as well as the Hausa community at Cable Point area of Asaba.

To get children
from Asaba to the school, a distance of about three kilometres, he said
that he provided a bus. He also said that he provided free uniforms to
the pupils, but added that he and the parents reached an agreement that
they would provide books. “This was as a result of an upsurge in
enrolment. The school currently had nine teachers, six of whom were
NYSC members who had their primary assignments elsewhere in Asaba, who
are providing their services to the school free.”