KIR Foundation 4th Annual Charity Fair

For the last three years, KIR Foundation has hosted the Annual Exhibition to create awareness about our projects as well as to display and sell the items made by our beneficiaries with and without disabilities. The aim of the KIR Foundation Annual Charity Fair 2016 is to raise funds to host the 2017 Prize Giving and Book Donation Day Project which will take place at the Special School for Handicapped Children at Creek Road Port Harcourt on Friday, the 3rd of February 2017. 

It would be our utmost pleasure to welcome you to the Keeping It Real (KIR) Foundation 4th Annual Charity Fair 2016. It is an open and free flowing event with a steady stream of guests coming in to shop as well as network with other vendors and guests. 

          Venue: The Charity Fair will hold at KIR Foundation’s Inclusive Resource and Rehabilitation Community Centre. Plot 8, Road 112, Federal Housing Estate, Amadi-Ama, off Peter Odili Road via Haritz Drycleaners. Port Harcourt.

Date: 19th November 2016

Time: 12p.m to 6.00p.m.

 

KIR Foundation is passionate about those who are marginalized, especially persons living with disabilities (PWDs). We constantly look out for opportunities to promote the rights for inclusion of the disability community in all developmental issues because we know that they are stigmatized and the poorest of the poor in society. Therefore, in 2012, we adopted the Special School for Handicapped Children (SSHC) had have been implementing projects in the school within our thematic areas of Education, Advocacy, Capacity and Sustainable Development. Our belief is that no one should be left behind in self-development especially in education.

SPECIAL SCHOOL APPRECIATES SMALL WORLD AND KIR FOUNDATION

“My name is Frederick Igbanibo Amakiri. I am the Principal, Special School for Handicapped Children Senior Secondary Port Harcourt. We indeed thank Keeping It Real Foundation and their partner Small World; who have thought of our children and come to establish an ICT Resource Room for us. The benefits to our students cannot be measured in terms of words.

This will bring our students into computer literacy and greatly enhance their educational pursuits and their social life….” (Watch the complete interview on KIR Foundation’s Youtube Channel - )
The words of gratitude expressed by the principal reflect the heart of the school management and the students. The ICT Resource Room is vital to the academic advancement of the students, taking into consideration the fact that computer based examinations have been introduced. Therefore, without the assistance of organizations like SMALL World, students in public schools especially those with disabilities will be left behind.
Furthermore, KIR Foundation is having discussions with the school management to introduce ICT practical lessons in the school curriculum.