The Rochas Foundation in a bid to curb the menace of corruption at the grass root level has embarked on a background check on some of the candidates who sat for the Rochas Foundation College entrance exams on the 23rd of June 2012.
In accordance with the Foundations aim of educating only the less privileged in the society, this exercise was introduced to ensure that only the poor in the society are given admssion into the Free Rochas Foundation Colleges.
It had come to the Foundation Management’s notice that some of the students admitted into these colleges are from well to do homes and so in a bid to curb such practises of fraudulence and corruption the backgroud check was introduced.
The background verification process was successful due to the immense help of well meaning volunteers who offered their help by going into rural communities to ensure that only those eligible are admitted. Some of the criteria used for verification were the children’s family social status, parental status, age and examination score.
The realisation of the rich occupying the spaces of the poor in these schools came as a huge shock which also strenghtened the resolve of the Foundation and her volunteers to help in their own ways to eradicate corruption at all levels.
The offer of these well meaning Nigerians in volunteering to help in this cause proved that Nigerians are a people of love, kindness and selflessness.
The DG of the foundation Uloma Rochas on this, supervised and strictly ensured the success of this exercise while urging Nigerians to shun corruption in all spheres. She described the practice of some Nigerians feigning poor just to take the place of less privileged children in the foundation’s schools as ‘the wealthy stealing from a beggar’s plate’.
With 5 schools located in Jos, Ibadan, Owerri, Ogboko and Kano currently with almost 5, 000 children and 700 ex-students in the university, this foundation has steadily pioneered and sustained the vision of the founder, Owelle Rochas Okorochas which is ‘education for free for children of the poorest of the poor in society’
At Rochas Foundation, Every Child counts!
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