Acada Magazine team in group picture with the children of Pacelli School |
As part of activities to mark its 10th anniversary, Acada
magazine, Nigeria’s foremost and consistent campus publication, recently
embarked on a charity visit to the Pacelli School for the Blind & Partially
Sighted Children, Surulere, Lagos.
Led by its publisher Biodun Caston-Dada, the visit afforded
the team an opportunity to meet with the students and management of the school
that has been in the forefront of training visually impaired children through
primary education for free.
Indeed, there was jubilation at school as Acada magazine
team and friends donated foodstuffs, toiletries, beverages and other valuables
items to the school. They were also conducted on a tour of the school’s
facilities and classrooms, where the team discovered some students with
fantastic voices.
“We chose to commence the celebration of Acada Magazine at
10 by giving back to the society, having stayed relevant and consistently
feeding the public, especially youths and campus students with life enhancing
and up to date educative information for 10 years now. From what we saw here
today, I think the school needs the support of both individuals and
organisations; educating these children for free is not an easy task,” the
publisher said.
In conclusion, Biodun-Caston-Dada advised the students to
look beyond their current challenges and see a brighter future ahead of them.
“Forget that you are visually impaired; work hard and stay focused because the
sky is the starting point and anybody can achieve anything they desire if they
can work towards it,” he said.
Acada magazine appeared on the newsstand in March 2007 and metamorphosed into a free bi-weekly
youth/campus tabloid seven years after. Aside the visit to Pacelli, the
magazine has lined up other activities to mark its 10th anniversary, including
empowerment programmes, youth conference, free meal for poor people, club
parties and other entertainment activities.
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