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Nigeria Info
Nineteen of Atlantic College's students went to Nigeria to conduct some charity work. While the group was in Lagos, they were spit into three smaller groups who worked in The Red Cross Motherless Babies Home, the Children's Development Centre and Paccelli's School For the blind. While we were in Abuja, the work was divided into a Childern's Orphanage, an AIDS Clinic and a Home for the Handicapped. There were eight Nigerians students in the group that embarked on this project.

The Students who participated in this project are as follows;

Special Thanks To:
  1. Mr & Mrs Belo-Osagie
  2. Mr & Mrs Obaigbena
  3. Mr & Mrs Baba-Kusa
  4. Mr & Mrs El-Rufai
  5. The long list of donors. Your help was appreciated a lot.
  1. Yasmin Belo-Osagie (Nigeria, 1st-Year)
  2. Fatima Baba-Kusa (Nigeria, 1st-Year)
  3. Bello El-Rufai (Nigeria, 1st-Year)
  4. Ramla El-Rufai (Nigeria, 2nd Year)
  5. Somkene Jipreze (Nigeria, 1st-Year)
  6. Efe Obaigbena (Nigeria, 2nd-Year)
  7. Eka Obaigbena (Nigeria, 2nd-Year)
  8. Mohammed Maibe (Nigeria, 2nd-Year)
  9. John Agbaje (Nigeria, 1st-Year)
  10. Pablo Alonso (Spain, 1st-Year)
  11. Jan Eicchorn (Germany, 2nd-Year)
  12. Scott McKenzie (Wales, 1st-Year)
  13. Amina Yugimoto (Japan, 1st-Year)
  14. Giustina Clarence-Smith (Italy, 1st-Year)
  15. Geeta Nagrani (India, 2nd-Year)
  16. Laurens Golverdingen (Netherlands, 2nd-Year)
  17. Hannah Wright (Ireland, 1st-Year)
  18. Melino Bein-Vete (Tonga, 1st-Year)
pablo & fatima At the Red Cross Motherless Babies Home, Pablo and Fatima seen with babies each. This was on our very first visit to the home and it turned out to be a very interesting experience inthe sense that, we discovered how babies are found and abandoned. There have been babies left on the kerbs of roads, dumped in waste bins etc. The babies are kept in the home for as long as is required until a family shows interest in adopting a child.
At the Children's Development Centre. Children with learning disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, are brought here by their parents/guardians so they can be assisted in the best ways possible. The centre is equipped with facilities vital in teaching these kids as well as staff highly trained in dealing with handicapped children. pre-school class
blind using typewriter Here, we have an image displaying a student of the Paccelli's School For the Blind. Due to the fact that they cannot not co-ordinate their hand-writing, people with severe hiderance in sight, or complete blindness, are taught how to type using a portable typewriter. Some of the teaching staff in the school are also visually impaired. These people have t rely on sound to get around. They use canes and walking sticks to guide them and check the level of the ground. They also use their hands to feel around. The group of people who worked in this school assisted the teachers and other staff in ll wsy that they could. For example helpig students place their fingers correctly on the keys of the typewriter.
On the day after the arrival of the foreign students there was a trip arranged for all of us to visit a small island where the people are in a situation that sets them apart from the rest of the civilised world. When we visited this site, we saw a lot of children who do not have access to the basic needs for survival. There was water but it was not clean or drinkable. Some of these kids did not have places to sleep. Obviously, there was no mediacl care for them. This was an introduction to the harsh lives that so many people in Nigeria, and Africa as a whole, lead. pablo & kid