Founder of Charlie Marie Group of Schools, Likosi in Sagamu, Ogun State, Evangelist Adekunbi Akin-Taylor, has distributed palliatives to the school parents.
This gesture was extended to parents at a time most private schools find it difficult pay staff.
While disclosing this to reporters on Wednesday July 1, 2020, Mrs. Akin Taylor, stated that she shared food items to her 27 workers as well as 100 parents and community members whose children attended the school.
“I gave all members of staff food palliatives – gari, rice and beans.
“My first daughter sponsored the April food palliative; while my other daughter sponsored same for May,” she stated.
She added that she extended palliatives to all parents because she understood how hard it would be on them, especially feeding the children.
“Most of them were struggling to make ends meet even before lockdown. Some of my children come to school on empty stomach,” Mrs Taylor said.
“I did not want my children to suffer. Someone phoned me that, as led by God he and his mum were blessing me with some money. I put all what I was blessed with and extra to good use.
Each palliative bag had rice, beans, garri, Indomie, oil, salt, biscuits and sweets. I made sure it was sizeable. Families that had two mothers got two bags,” she added.
The lockdown has impacted the payment of school fees since March. Yet the 27-member staff are being paid more than 50 per cent of their salaries.
“For the month of March I paid full salary. April and May I paid between 60 per cent and 70 per cent. I am fighting to do the same in June but, after June, it will be a very tough call.
“I have used up almost all my savings. I am now getting very worried,” she said.
Mrs. Akin-Taylor disclosed that the school has not been able to commence the e-learning programme because parents cannot afford the cost.
“About e-learning, we could not do at all. Power supply is almost non-existent. Many parents cannot afford regular data and android phones talk less of laptops.
“Even the teachers have such constraints. I don’t believe in segregation so since only a handful of parents can do this, I decided it won’t be fair on majority of the others,” she said.
Appreciating the initiative, the school’s PTA Chairperson, Mrs. Olabunmi Mufutau, said, “That woman is very nice, kind good mama. There are very few proprietors that can do this.
“Staff salaries have been paid for two months; she is very kind,” she said.
