Residents of Bobota community, Abuja could not contain their joy and excitement as they received a brand new 500KVA Transformer yesterday from MTN Foundation as part of the ‘What Can We Do Together’ initiative. The residents who are majorly peasant farmers, petty traders and artisans praised and thanked MTN Foundation for giving them a new lease of life by replacing the 15-year old, worn out transformer with a brand new one.
The
‘What
Can We Do Together’ initiative, which was launched in September 2015, during
the 10th anniversary celebration of the MTN Nigeria Foundation, is aimed at
giving every Nigerian the opportunity to make a difference in their
communities. Under the second phase of the initiative, a call was made for
Nigerians to nominate 200 communities to benefit from 200projects varying from transformers, boreholes, school furniture and medical equipment supply to primary health
care centres.
Abubakar
Ibrahim Tukur, an undergraduate of the Federal University, Katsina and the
nominator of Bobota Community, described MTN Foundation as an organisation that
values human life. According to him, “We have
suffered so much from power outage in this community, spending so much money on
fuel to run our businesses and power our houses. We have made several
complaints but to no avail. Now thanks to MTN Foundation, our voices have been
heard. We feel special and blessed. This is the best New Year gift any
community can hope to receive.”
Across
Nigeria, a total of 200 communities were selected from a pool of over 80,000
nominations following a rigorous screening process. Through this process, 20
communities were selected to receive 500KVA transformers, 80 schools to receive
sets of school furniture, 80 primary health care centres to receive modern
medical equipment and another 20 communities to receive 650ft water boreholes.
Below
are pictures from the Transformer installation in Bobota, Abuja...
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