The Ernest Bebenimibo Foundation (EBF), a nongovernmental organisation founded by Dcn. Amb. Ernest Bebenimibo, has gifted pupils of Ekete Primary School 1 and Uwajorhor Primary School in Ekete Inland, Udu Local Government Area of Delta state among others, with learning materials worth millions of naira in honour of its late Director-General, Amb. Ogaga Darlington Ossai.

The EBF visits led by its founder in company of his wife, Mrs. Loveth Bebenimibo among other volunteers to the primary schools on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) mark the second phase of its Creek 2 School Legacy Project 2024, an initiative embarked upon by the Foundation to ameliorate the challenges of learning facing pupils and students in the riverine areas of the Niger Delta region.

More than 700 pupils benefitted from the phase 2 with 2000 notebooks and 15 packs of writing materials that include biros, pencils, erasers, and sharpeners, freely given out by the EBF team on Tuesday in remembrance of the late DG Ossai.

The EBF Founder during an interactive session charged pupils to be focused and to take their studies serious, adding further that, irrespective of their current learning challenges they should also remember that their "tomorrow can be better than today if only you can put in hard work to their studies," he counseled.

Among key staff present during the visit are Mrs. Ukpebor Patience, the Headmistress of Uwajorhor Primary School; Mrs. Agbanobi Jane, the Headmistress of Ekete Primary School 1; Mr. Fidelis Matthew, the Assistant Secretary of Ekete Community.

In their responses, stakeholders of the school and community representative thanked the EBF and its volunteers for rising up to the needs of parents and pupils alike especially in the present economic hardship that is worsening the number of out-of-school children due to financial challenges faced by sponsors to not only pay school fees, but in acquiring learning tools for their wards.

They stressed that the intervention by the EBF wil surely go a long way in easing the plights of parents and will help improve learning for pupils, just as they called on like-minded individuals and organisations to borrow leaf from the EBF by contributing towards improving education which is the bedrock for development in any society.

According to the EBF Founder, the late DG Ossai, in the short period of stay before his sudden demise in 2023 was instrumental in the founding of the NGO as he played key roles in its various programmes organised to reach out to the less privilege in society.

"The Phase 2 of the Creek 2 School Legacy Project 2024 is in honour of our late Director-General, Dcn. Amb. Ogaga Darlington Ossai, of blessed memory, who was an active founding member of the Ernest Bebenimibo Foundation, and participated actively in the Foundation's philanthropic works," he said.

Dcn. Bebenimibo also thanked financiers of the phase 2 of the project for making it a reality.

He said, "God bless all our members and supporters, who since inception, most especially the sponsors of this phase 2 project, have been instrumental in its success.

“I sincerely, on behalf the members of the EBF, thank Engr. Michael Tonlagha, who is a founding member of the foundation; Mrs. Oguname, the director of Betzalel School in Udu, and Mr. Victor Tonlagha, for their continuous and laudable support towards the vision of EBF.”

The late Amb. Ossai, passed away at the age of 42 years, on December 7, 2023. Until his death, he was an active member as the Director-General of the EBF, participating in the Foundation's philanthropic works and other educational projects.

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