Our dreams are now reality – Tiko Mayor

BY ATIA TILARIOUS AZOHNWI

“Our dreams for the Tiko people when we took up office at the helm of the council are now a reality. We will stop at nothing to bring development to our people and make them live a better life.”

Tiko Mayor, Moukondo Daniel and FATE's Joseph Schuld seal partnership

Mayor Moukondo Daniel Ngande was speaking at the Tiko Council Chambers on Friday, January 10, during a partnership signing ceremony between the Tiko Council and a United States based Non Governmental Organisation, the Foundation for Applied Technology in Education, FATE.

FATE, according to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Tiko Municipality is committed to assist underprivileged children of school going age pay their school fees and see them through school.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Applied Technology in Education, Joseph Schuld said they are also committed to enhance the education of women and the application of technology in schools in the South West, an activity they have been carrying out for many years with the collaboration of basic education officials.

With many children in Tiko already benefiting from the school fee assistance offer by FATE, the mayor of Tiko said their vision for the municipality is already seeing the light of day and they are poised to keep up, on an even greater tempo.

He thanked the Chairman of the International Corporation and Partnership Development Committee, Barrister Ajong Stanislaus for working very hard to bring quality education to the Tiko people given the sacrifice he made to get the partners come.

Mayor Moukondo pledged during the occasion that for the next five years, the development of Tiko will give him and his team sleepless nights.

Barrister Ajong (standing) assists in the signing of the MoU

“We’re out to cater for the needs of destitute children and supply computers to some schools. We urge the Tiko Council on their part to help us identify this category of persons and schools,” Joseph Schuld said.

A duty the mayor said the council will carry out in collaboration with the delegations of social affairs, education and members of the local administration.

The partnership was signed in the presence of the 1^st deputy mayor of the Tiko Council, Joseph Elundu, Councillor, community members and members of FATE.