THE Rochas Okorocha Foundation is ready to receive Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who is visiting Imo State today as a guest of the foundation.
The director-general of the foundation, Mrs Uloma Nwosu said the visit will lead to a renewed effort to focus attention on the plight of homeless, orphaned, abandoned, abused and indigent children across Africa.
She said this was a passion the Liberian President shares with the foundation.
In a statement, Mrs Nwosu said President Johnson-Sirleaf will also visit the newly established Rochas Foundation College of Africa (ROFOCA), where she will be united with five children from her country, who are among pioneer students of the school.
The five children are among the 275 children from 55 African countries studying at the college.
Their education is said to be part of plan to take one million children off the streets of Africa by 2030.
There are currently five children from each of the 55 countries in the college.
Mrs Nwosu noted that the 275 children at the college based in Owerri, the state capital, are different from over 15,000 others in five Rochas Foundation schools across Nigeria.
She added that the schools had recorded over 4,000 graduates who have become members of the Rochas Okorocha Foundation Old Students Association (ROFOSA).
|The Nation
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