Rochas Foundation Set To Celebrate 20 Years Of Giving

The Rochas Foundation, a Non-Governmental and Non Profit making organisation will be celebrating 20 years of sharing and inspiring love and compassion to the less privileged through its educational empowerment programs.

A statement by Mrs Uloma Rochas Nwosu, Director General of the foremost humanitarian organization stated that the idea behind the celebration is for the foundation to take stock, reinvigorate and outline strategies for expansion and further growth. .

The 20th Anniversary is already trending online with the hashtag #thisislove

“The Rochas Foundation was founded February 24, 1998 (That makes it 20 years in 2018) by Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, a Nigerian entrepreneur and education philanthropist who is passionate about free education for every African child. .

We pride ourselves as leaders in advocating & promoting free education and life changing opportunities for the less privileged African child. In the last two decades. We have established 10 functional Rochas Foundation colleges (Ogboko, Enugu, Jos, Bauchi, Yola, Zaria, Kano, Sokoto, Owerri and Ibadan), with over 15,000 children receiving free and qualitative education presently and more than 4,000 graduates that make up the Rochas Foundation Old Students Association (ROFOSA). .

The 20th Anniversary, which is a celebration of love, according to the DG, is expected to feature paper presentations by notable scholars of international repute on the achievability of free and qualitative education in Nigeria, a video documentary of the 20 years of educational empowerment and elimination of ignorance by the foundation, special presentation by the Old Students of the Colleges, love sharing, where the elites in the society are encouraged to take advantage of the platform to bring love offerings to be distributed to the less privileged present at the Heroes Square, Owerri, venue of the 20th Anniversary celebration.