Foundation set to address academic challenges of Nigeria children

As part of it aspiration to enhance the learning environment of the Nigerian child so as to produce citizens imbued with upright character, Adekunle Adedayo, chairman of Tastee Fried Chicken Limited, education stakeholders, friends and family members have concluded plans to launch a Foundation (BAF) in honour of the legacy of Bunmi Adedayo.

The launch scheduled for Tuesday, January 5, 2016, (today) at MUSON centre, would have Obiageli Ezekwesili as the keynote speaker on the topic “A Caring Society Grows Faster”

Doyin Abiola, a member, Board of Trustees of the Bunmi Adedayo foundation while speaking on the activities of the foundation during a press conference in Lagos said the deceased was passionate about children and had organised series of children programmes through the corporate social responsibility programme of the outfit as the executive director of the company.

Abiola informs that the vision of the foundation is to nurture and equip children with the skills and competencies that would enable them to contribute to national and global communities.

She said the quest to propagate his wishes prompted the inauguration of the foundation, adding that though his life was brief, he did marvelously well as a young entrepreneur.

According to her, “Children are the foundation of every society, if we don’t take good care of them, we are deceiving ourselves. Whatever we sow in their lives the society will reap in the future. All that Bunmi wanted was to help children and we are standing firm on that.”

Yemisi Adedayo stressed that the project strategy is to identify a school that met the foundation’s criteria, work on it holistically until it is thoroughly transformed to produce a total and balanced child.

On his part Babatunde Akinleye, Chairman, board of directors of the foundation, remarked that the cardinal aim of the foundation was to improve the lives of children from disadvantaged backgrounds using educational platforms.

“The foundation will intervene in schools through advocacy for improvement of academic standards, enhancement of the learning environment and promotion of a sense of universal civic responsibility in the children,” he said.

Daisy Danjuma will grace the occasion as the Chief Launcher while Justice George Oguntade, J.SC, Retired, CFR and Adedeji Adeleke will support Danjuma as Co-launchers. Other special guests and high net worth dignitaries are also expected to grace the occasion.