Covid -19: Group donates foodstuff to private school teachers in Kaduna

The Global Peace Foundation of Nigeria has donated foodstuff as palliatives to 200 private school teachers in Kaduna as part of effort to reduce the hardship caused by the COVID-19 lockdown.

The organisation’s Country Director, Reverend John Joseph Hayab, while donating the items at the office of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), in Kaduna State, said the items might be small but would make some families happy.

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Hayab described private schools teachers as the worst affected by the COVID-19 lockdown as many of them have not been paid salaries for months.

“It’s when schools are in session that children will pay school fees and it’s only when children pay school fees that proprietors will get money to pay their teachers. So, we must assist private school teachers because they have not received salaries in the past five months,” he said.

In his remark, the Northern Coordinator of Global Foundation, Shaikh Halliru Maraya, ‎said in Kaduna State alone, the pandemic has affected more than 12,000 teachers, adding that the foundation decided to come up with the initiative of assisting private school teachers to show them that they are not alone in this trying moment.