Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) has finally come the way of Umuzu, a hinterland community in Ogbaru Local Government Area as they will now have a secondary school.
The General Manager of the Agency, Mr. Chudi Muojekwu announced the approval of the project when he led members of his team to hand over the cheque for the thirty percent take off fund for the project.
On arrival to Umuzu, a community rarely known by many will only remind you of the bible passage in Matthew 4: 16 “the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light have dawned.”
Thus, the secondary school project carried out through the vulnerable group project of the community and social development programme, CSDP is like a shining light of hope.
According to the project management implementation, the vulnerable group, in this case, the Oganiru Widows’ Association, Umuzu identified four projects of their needs out of which two pressing micro projects were selected: the two blocks of classrooms for the secondary school and equipping of their barren health Centre.
Also in the financing of the projects, the World Bank, the Federal Government and Anambra State Government provide ninety five percent of the over seven-point-nine million naira total cost of the project while the group provides the remaining five percent which they have provided in Land as equity and Labour.
Speaking to the members of the Community before the signing of the agreements of the project, the General Manager of Anambra CSDA, Mr. Muojekwu charged the implementing Committee and community leaders to ensure the speedy completion of the project to meet the educational needs of the community.
The Anambra State CSDA Operations Manager, Mrs. Uche Nwaizugbo, stressed the importance of ensuring financial transparency in carrying out the project as the Agency abhors uncompleted projects.
The President General of Umuzu, Deacon Cyril Ezekwelu and the Chairperson, Oganiru Widows Association, Umuzu, Mrs. Janet Igbobi could not hide their joy.
They described the launch of the project as a dream fulfilled in their life time as they can now give their children secondary school education after missing out.
The launch came to a climax when the General Manager of Anambra CSDA, Mr. Muojekwu and the Widows Association Chairperson, Mrs. Igbobi signed the project implementation agreement and were handed over the cheque of N2.2million as 30 percent kick off fund.
So far, ten vulnerable groups spread across five local government areas in the state have twenty-two ongoing projects with over eighty percent completion rate.
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