The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has pledged to award scholarships to the physically-challenged, who desire education.
He said this is part of his contributions to empower the less-privileged.
Dangote said his foundation, the Dangote Foundation, would look into the provision of assistance to the brilliant ones interested in going to higher institutions, but had one disability or the other, which might impair them.
The business mogul spoke when he received in his office, a visually- impaired, Kayode Ogendengbe, who came to present his B.Sc. degree to him.
He was sponsored by Dangote, who discovered his potential through the Teens Empowerment and Salvage Initiative (TESI), a non-government organisation, during a programme in Lagos and volunteered to finance his university education; after which Ogedengbe gained admission to the University of Maiduguri, Borno State.
Dangote said one of the things the rich could do to impact on the society was to help the physically-challenged to realise their dreams, adding that everyone had one challenge or the other, “but God has been helping us.”
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