Philanthropist donates school structures

To mark his 60th birthday, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Louis Carter Group Limited, Chief Louis Izuchukwu Onwugbenu, will hand over a three-storey school building for St Louis Nwafor Uruagu Primary School, Uruagu, Nnewi in Anambra State to Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Reverend Hillary Okeke today.

The school is among those that the administration of Governor Peter Obi handed over to the Catholic mission.

Thanking the donor, head teacher of the school, Mrs Chibundu Onwurah, said the one-storey building that the school used before the new structure and the land where it was located were courtesy of Onwuegbenu.

She said the over 800 pupils and 39 teachers of the school have benefitted a lot from Onwugbenu’s philanthropy, adding that he has purchased another three-storey building for a secondary school for the area since there is none in the locality.

The Manager of the school and Parish Priest of St Louis Catholic Church, Uruagu Nnewi, Rev Fr Mike Onuchukwu, said the church and school were built by Onwugbenu 10 years ago and the additional structures for the nursery/primary and secondary sections are his way of thanking God for keeping him.

In his remarks, Onwugbenu whose foundation caters for the education of less privileged and disadvantaged people in the society, said the first set of pupils of the secondary school who are brilliant would study free.

“Because I know the essence of education and I know the pains of parents who cannot afford their children’s education, the first set of bright students in the St Louis Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi will study for free, no matter their number from JSS 1-3, at least for now. They would go through a screening to be administered by the Board of Trustees of the Louis Carter Foundation.

“I bought the land and built St Louis Nursery/ Primary School since 1998, and now the St Louis Secondary School. I have bought the land and the building that will be remodeled into an ultra modern school. This three-storey building is for the secondary school.

“Now that I am 60 years, I am adding to what I have done to glorify God in line with what my mother did while alive. I have equally unveiled the Louis Carter Foundation to streamline my charity in various levels with a team specifically charged with managing it for posterity sake. I have instructed my children, eight of them, to continuously pay money into it as a legacy for me whether alive or dead. So the cash will continue to flow into the foundation.”