A 2015 Plateau North Senatorial aspirant Mrs. Eunice Ayisa Sambo who contested under the All Progressives Congress APC, paid a charity visit to some displaced and orphaned children in Bassa Local Government. The children are under the care of a non-
governmental organisation known as Youths With a
Mission, City of Refuge Centre, Miango, Bassa LGA.
The NGO was founded 12 years ago by a couple, Mr.
Michael Kurams and his wife Joy, to help the less
privileged.
Mr. Kurams said, “Our attention was drawn to the
plight of these children at the IDPs camp in Maiduguri
and even some that are not in camp in Adamawa, so
we went out to fish for such groups of orphans, some
of them, their parents brought them voluntarily to
enable them access formal education. At the moment
we have about 200 of such children in the camp and
we have organised formal education for them. We have
employed a few teachers to teach them, but there are
some youths that have come to do voluntary jobs here
to educate the children because my NGO cannot pay to
employ enough teachers.
The founder said, “We started the school for them in
October last year in whatever way we can hoping that
one day government will come to their aid. But even
though no government has come to our aid, this
particular woman got the information of this camp and
visited last year and promised to bring some help to
us. Today she has come to make some donations for
the food and education of these children. She is God-
sent, I don’t know how she got to know we are here,
she came on her own. Maybe because she is a
mother, she has shown a lot of concern for these
children, I hope other Nigerians will emulate her and
come to the aid of these orphans,” he said.
The woman in question, Eunice Ayisa Sambo, a Good
Samaritan, is a native of Jos East Local Government
Area of Plateau State. Mrs Sambo, an All Peoples
Congress (APC) stalwart, who resides mostly abroad,
involved an international NGO based in the United
Kingdom to help the orphans at the Bassa camp when
she discovered that they were brought from the
Northeast.
The APC stalwart said, “My decision to bring help for
these children should not be mistaken as a political
campaign because these children are not even from
Plateau state, neither are they from my constituency, a
time will come when they will return to their original
state of origin, so I’m just doing this out of
compassion, as a mother I can’t have the knowledge
of these kinds of orphans and pretend I don’t know,
they are vulnerable, they need help, they have lost their
parents, who will cater for their needs. So all these
thoughts moved me into coming with the little I can do
to help, they are my children, if I’m rich enough I would
have adopted all of them and kept them in my house,
but I can’t. But I know I am a trustee in an NGO that
can help, hence I went back to U.K, and this is how
they decided to help these children with this token
donation.
While presenting the donations to the camp manager,
Mrs Sambo said, “On behalf of myself, a trustee of
and co-founder of Amazing Grace Charitable Trust, UK
and founder of Jos Wallgate Foundation Nigeria, we
make this visit to internally displaced persons
including women and children from Borno state
domicile in Jos Plateau state. The situation in the
North Eastern part of Nigeria over in the past and
present has affected lots of communities and forcing
inhabitants of affected communities into unimaginable
traumatic experiences.
“In our own little way we make this visit and donation
to the displaced persons particularly the children
whose future has been endangered as a result of the
insecurity in the Northeast. It is our belief that the
immediate needs of these vulnerable children is not
limited to food and shelter, but their education is of
utmost important. The future of these children is
basically anchored on their education, which is why we
decided to support the NGO hosting these children in
our little way to an ale the children receive quality
education while in this camp” she said.
Items donated during the visit includes; 10 bags of
maize, 10 bags of locally-milled rice, 9 bags of beans.
The donation also includes the cash sum of
N240,000.00 (Two Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) for the scholarship of the children.

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Ayisa Sambo donates relief materials and cash to children displaced by insurgency