Nigerians in Diaspora Rally Supports for Ukraine Rescue Mission: “Olasubomi was able to get 75% scholarship for refugee girls, 50% scholarship for refugee boys and 100% scholarship for Academic Excellence”
Olasubomi Iginla Aina, (MBE) the diaspora Ambassador for Nigeria and a Director for United Nations Global NGO Executive Committee (GNEC) is currently touring the European states that share border with Ukraine.
She has visited Poland and witnessed the evacuation of Nigerian students from Poland. Olasubomi was able to get 75% scholarship for refugee girls, 50% scholarship for refugee boys and 100% scholarship for Academic Excellence. Any of the refugees interested in applying for this scholarship should express their interest by sending their names, email address, gender, course of study and telephone number to admin@lightupfoundation.org.
She has also been in touch with the Prime Minister of the new state created by African Union: State of the African Diaspora (SOAD) to advocate for positve actions in relations to the African refugees from Ukraine. The Prime Minister, Dr. Louis- Georges Tin has immediately convered meetings with relevant stakeholders to work with Olasubomi who is currently on tour of neighboring countries to Ukraine and SOAD is also raising fund to commence evacuation of Africans within and outside Ukraine.
Olasubomi on her tour to Slovakia also discovered Pastor
Paul who was running close to 5 units for the refugees without any support from government, he has used the church funds and personal funds to fund the rescue operations as well as providing welfare for the young people. She immediately invited the media to create awareness of the Slovakia situation and before she left Slovakia on the 6th of March, donations had started coming in.
I am currently in Hungary and here Nigerian government had already evacuated some citizens while many still awaits evacuation. Olasubomi visited various housing units where African refugees are accomodated (mostly students) to encourage students and provide available opportunities.
She is currently strategising on how to evacuate students from Summy – Ukraine. She has met with students who escapped from Summy and they are all working together towards a successful evacuation of students to neighboring States.
For students already evacuated to Nigeria,
Olasubomi is currently appealing for private universities in Nigeria to rise up to the rescue of these students. She is seeking for scholarships to motivate students for immediate admission to engage the minds of these young people.
She is already in touch with stakeholders of Bells University, Covenant University and Redeemer University.
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