Didier Drogba opens fully furnished school for Ivorian village

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Former Ivorian international footballer, Didier Drogba, has inaugurated a school built in his region.
It is specifically in the village of Onahio Pokou-Kouamekro.
Under the auspices of the Didier Drogga Foundation and with support from Nestle and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), some 350 children can now have access to education in the rural cocoa growing community.
The Didier Drogba Foundation, Nestlé and ICI share the common objective of helping children live healthier lives and helping develop thriving resilient communities. Like any public school, the Didier Drogba school will be handled to the government to run, Nestle said.
The facility will replace an existing school in Pokou-Kouamekro which was made of mud and lacked the necessary infrastructure. It comprises of 6 classrooms, a kindergarten class, a school canteen, school latrines, a football field and 3 teachers’ homes to attract qualified teachers.
Present at the ceremony were members of the foundation, Nestle and the ICI as well as community leaders to who the former African player of the year handed a symbolic key to the facility.

“ it is not beyond our power to create a World in which all children have access to a good education” @NelsonMandela
Proud of the opening of the first school from The Didier Drogba Foundation today in Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 the first one we built 🙏🏾🙏🏾

What Drogba said at the event: