TQM report,
On the 14th November, 2020, we published an interview of a 16 years old girl with disability from Mobudi town, Langtang South Local Government Area, Jos, Plateau State Jemya Funturu who is being carried in a cart who was demanding assistance to go back to school and she was also having serious mobility problem to go to school and that informed our plead for a mobility aid for her. (see https://qualitativemagazine.com/?p=8117)
Luckily, The founder and CEO of Beautiful Gate, Chief Ayuba Burki Gufwan read the story on our platform and donated a wheelchair and a tricycle to her.
On Saturday 23rd January, 2021, our correspondents Bulus Bala Izang and Joshua Yenle were in Langtang to deliver the tricycle and the wheelchair to the girl.
It was a lot of exciting and joy in the little village where she resides, Jemya said to us, I can now start school which has always been my dream.
“I became a person with disability from birth, I cannot use my legs and hands properly. My mother was also like me but she is dead now, I am her only child. I finished primary school which is nearby but I could not go to secondary school because the nearest secondary school to us is very far for me and I don’t have mobility aid, I am very grateful that I have gotten one today so I will start and I am hopeful that God will also bring someone that will pay for my school”
“My father cannot afford my school fees and again he does not care about me, it is only my aunt who is now my mother that provides for me. She cannot afford my school fees, she is the only one feeding me and buying my clothes, my father and my step mother his wife does not care about me” she said.
Jemya Funturu trying out the tricycle for the first time
She told us that she would love to be engage herself in buying and sell bakery products like chin-chin so that she can be providing for herself while in school.
She appealed to government and well to do Nigerians to help her go to school.
“I just want someone who can take me to school, government should help me so that in future, I can take care of myself”.
TQM is specially that Chief Ayuba Burki Gufwan for coming to the rescue of the young girl as he read her story.
We are joining her to appeal to Plateau State government to assist her go back to school.
