Chinweokoli Students Foundation -CSF

Chinweokoli Students Foundation -CSF Helping indigent students of the University of Jos to become graduates without financial impediment

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Our Vision is to ensure that indigent students bag their degree and achieve their dreams.
Our Mission: by empowering the students; paying their fees and engaging them meaningfully while on campus.

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HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION
The foundation was born out of my innermost desire to show love and share the little I have with the needy. Early in life, I discovered that I was created and sent on a mission to touch lives positively through giving and showing unconditional love to humanity.
When I joined the University of Jos in 2009 as a lecturer ll, I noticed that some students were not allowed to write their exams because of non-payment of school fees. I was deeply touched. I saw frustration, hopelessness, and depression clearly written on the faces of the poor students who were prevented from writing their exams. That night I couldn’t sleep I related the issue to my husband and told him I must do something. He gave me the go-ahead and I felt so happy.
You know what, the act of charity is the greatest of all the gifts of God. If you don’t have the gift you will not be able to give even if you have billions in your account. Conversely, with the gift of charity, you can deprive yourself and share the little you have.
With the support of my husband, we started with final-year students of the Faculty of Law at, the University of Jos. We started with one Bukola who was selling moi-moi, and another who was selling water in wheelbarrow, (mai ruwa), Collins, and others. We later extended the help to other levels and other faculties. My children in other universities once in a while send names of some indigent students to us for help. We also pay law school fees and buy law wigs and gowns, shoes, wears, and other accessories for indigent students. We give them pocket money too depending on what is in our purse. I do have inner joy and peace, self-fulfilment whenever we meet the needs of the indigent students.

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PAST BENEFICIARIES
To the glory of God, we have touched many lives some of which we could not remember their names. This is because initially, students come to us in tears and we give them money in cash. We later discovered that some do feigned poverty, with crocodile tears during exams and collected money from us in disguise. They took advantage of my kindness but I have forgiven them. I have learnt my lesson and have started proper documentation and interviewing. There is always a Committee on the ground that is responsible for advertising, interviews, proper screening and communication with the students, their parents, friends and relations to ensure eligibility. At the end of every interview, we collect the names and matriculation numbers of the poorest of the poor and pay their school fees. We do proper documentation for record purposes. We have been able to assist about fifty indigent students since the inception.

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SCOPE OF THE FOUNDATION SERVICES
For now, the scope is limited to the poor students of all the faculties, at the University of Jos, Plateau State. We also pay school fees for some poor widow’s children in primary and secondary schools. Hopefully, we intend to reach out to indigent students in all Nigerian Federal Universities and Africa, God’s willing.

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CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF BENEFICIARIES
The following are the conditions for eligibility:
1. Applicants must be poor/ indigent and registered students.
2. He/she must be ready to engage in a trade/ entrepreneurship.
3. Applicants must not have been found wanting by the school authority.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP SERVICES
We are making arrangements to engage the students in learning trades of their choice during holidays and other free time such as barbing, fashion designing, shoe making, computer graphics etc..
TO GOD BE THE GLORY

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Associate Prof. (Mrs) Chinwe K. Okoli-Founder

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Faculty Of Law, University Of Jos
Jos
930242

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