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| Falmata Dulumi |
A teenage girl and 300 level student of pharmacy has recently come to spotlight of honor following her exemplary show of humanity when she chose to teach as a volunteer teacher at a school for orphans and physically challenged in Maiduguri Borno state.
Leadership discovered Rather than join her teenage female friends in unproductive ventures that may not benefit her positively, Falmata Dulumi, 19, said the she rather use her time to teach deprived children while the strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lasts.
“I have a soft spot and love for deprived and underprivileged children”, Falamata said. “Since I don’t have money or means to assist them I always look out for an opportunity to do something in kind to assist them once in a while. And the ASUU strike, as bad as it has been, fortunately gave me an opportunity and I grabbed it while it lasts”.
Falmata, a very quiet and soft-spoken lady, said she had approached the management of the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School located in Maiduguri, a Maiduguri based faith-base that gives free education to orphans, and tendered her application to be a teacher without pay. And after assessing her qualifications she got the job.
“I am trainee pharmacists here in the University of Maiduguri, and I am proud of the career I chose to pursue. However, I also love children and I love seeing them being given the opportunity to become something that will guarantee a better future. I knew about this school, Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School for sometimes; and I hear how it is helping to give free education to orphans and physically challenged children.
‘When I first muted the idea, some people felt I don’t know what I am doing, going to teach some orphans and free of charge. But I was very well encouraged by my parents who gave me even moral religious back-up that the Prophet of Islam says whoever teaches or helps an orphan has a place with him in paradise’, she said.
“Besides, I came to realize that one will not be able to know how little one knows until you come close to children and teaching them. I have learnt a lot from them and rom the senior teachers here. Above all, I later find out that I have even developed my public speaking because I stand before the children and speak all day.
The slim and fair-skinned pharmacist-to-be had called on all who have the means to do everything, no matter how little, to assist orphaned children in the state, even as she observed that the number of kids without parents had increased as a result of the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency.
The Director of Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School, Barrister Usman Zannah, said he was very humble on the day ‘the beautiful young girl walked into the school premises and said she wants to help teach the pupils.
“She didn’t give us a breathe to respond when she said, I am a pharmacy student in the university of Maiduguri, we are now on strike, please let me use my time to help in teaching these poor pupils. I come to volunteer, please allow me this opportunity. We didn’t hesitate, and the next day we gave her primary 5 to teach, and she has been doing very well, with very little guidance from her senior teachers here.
“It is quite unusual for a teenager, a female one for that matter, especially in this part of the country, to be so selfless, it is really inspiring,” said the director.
Culled From Leadership Newspaper
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