Prestigious women group, The Alpha Alpha Omega Omega Lagos chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, has kicked off a fund raising initiative aimed at providing school supplies to a school in Lagos, Liberty School Ikota.
Liberty School Ikota is located at Ilaje community, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway Axis.
The initiative tagged ‘School Supplies Drive’, which is a partnership by the group (Alpha Alpha Omega Omega), will provide equipment for the school and set an example on how private partnership supports public schools in communities.
The School Supplies Drive began on Monday, May 16, 2022 and ends on Friday May 20, 2022.
In a statement released by the Alpha Alpha Omega Omega, the initiative was inspired many years ago when the children of community in Ilaje did not have a school in their area and had to cross the busy road of Lekki – Epe expressway to go to the available school, Ikota Primary School, then.
The statement read: “We are pleased to announce our partnership with Liberty School Ikota! Operating entirely off donations, we are committed to ongoing fundraising efforts to help support their growth and we’re kicking off with a school supplies drive!
“The idea of establishing Liberty School Ikota was birthed in 2014 after a truck hit 3 school children between the ages of 5 and 8 as they crossed the Lekki-Epe Expressway to go to the Ikota Primary School. During this time, the Ikota Primary School was the only public primary school in close proximity to this sprawling ghetto settlement in Ikota which is home to hundreds of thousands of poor people.
“For those who could attend the school, the wide and busy Lekki-Epe Road was a death trap, and crossing it was as daunting as getting enrolled among several other children who scrambled for the limited spaces.
“After this tragic incident, the community eventually donated land and the effort to build the school commenced.
“Today, from using a proximate community centre, the school has moved into its own building providing succour for both the aboriginal and the resettled Ikota community children and the parents.
“The Organisation urges persons and groups willing to support, to drop their school supplies at Pilots Court, 14a Bosun Adekoya Street, Oniru/Lekki. Off Hakeem Dickson, Lagos +234.070.6959.6951.”
On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, the Alpha Alpha Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated was established with 16 members during a socially distanced and private chartering ceremony in Lagos.
Established on the campus of Howard University in 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest Greek-letter organization established by African American college-trained women. Since then, the sorority has flourished into a globally impactful organization of more than 300,000 members.
The Alpha Alpha Omega Omega chapter is the first graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Lagos, Nigeria and these great women are ready to continue the work and look forward to standing alongside community organisations, schools, and other partners to make an impact in the Lagos community, in keeping with the sorority’s mission of “Service to All Mankind”.
