Ahmad SAKA , Bauchi
A 26 year old National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) member Umar Abubakar Ahmed Danfulani has forfeited six million naira gift to enable his community in sabuwar kwaggwol village in Toro Local Government Area to get 100-meter borehole with a steel overhead tank of 30,000 litres and a solar panel constructed for the community.
Speaking at the Commissioner ceremony of the Project, corper Umar said he recalled the suffering faced by his mother, other women and children in the community who trek long distance to get water from the ponds and streams for their daily use for more than 20 years.
He said he grew up as an orphan because his father died, but he sponsored his education up to the University level and read Environmental Biology from the University of Maiduguri with second class upper division, doing menial job of washing cars at Gwarimpa Abuja which help him to achieve his life long ambition and acquired Degree.
Umar said he sufferred a lot in his quest to sponsor his education because when he didn't get money to pay for his school, he will continue to struggle but with Allah's help, he gratduated and now doing his mandatory NYSC in Abuja, which he will complete it in February 2023,
Umar while doing his youth service, and at the same time continue doing the car washing business to earn a living.
He said one day he came in contact with a digital firm Shibnobi on Twitter looking for a volunteer in Nigeria who has basic computer knowledge, "so I decided to try my luck. After series of interviews, they found me fit and qualified for the job and they offered me the opportunity to be their lead moderator in Nigeria," he said.
"That was how I started working with them, I lectured on their projects in three varsity, secondary schools to give young ones a hope of brighter future to be self reliance using online businesses from home."
He said, "one day the companys Chief Executive Officer CEO of Cliff Fettner, called me and told me that they would offer me a gift of N6m as a support grant. Six million was a huge amount of money that can change my life, but I have something bigger in my mind."
"I saw it as an opportunity to wipe away the tears of residents of my community, so I contacted them and asked if they could help me to divert the money to provide clean water in my village. I narrated to them how we have been suffering to get drinking water, even though I know if I did a community project in the place I am serving, I may get the National award of NYSC. But I think my community needs my support first I forget the NYSC award and concentrate on how to help my immediate community, because I wasn't happy any time I came from Abuja to saw my mother fetching water from a long distance.”
He added that, "After long discussions the CEO asked me to provide him with the estimate of the project, and I contacted a local borehole drilling company, which provided an estimate of eight Milion Naira which Shinobi paid and the community raised N2m, and a 100-meter borehole with a steel overhead tank of 30,000 litres and a solar panel was constructed."
"With six taps now, my village has clean water, we thank the almighty Allah."
He said, "we have also came up with a plan to provide security for the project within the community in the case of problem even our sumor has problem before you remove it, will take about one day before you can be able to dig the sumor buried in side the ground."
Umar said he is now happy and fulfilled wth the happiness he see in the faces of his community and advised parents in the community to allow their children to concentrate on school, "and I am happy after the success of executing this project our youths are now falling in love with school, and parents are now citing me as an example to their children, I am happy."
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the project, the village head of Kwoggal Doctor Idris Abdullahi, commended the youth Corp member.
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