By Eze Adiuku
In a bid to deepen community development, the people of Mbaise in Imo State, are planning to build a Community Centre with state of the art facilities.
To make this a reality, a nongovernmental organization, Mbaise Connect Global Initiative, MCGI, is holding a gathering of Who is Who in Mbaise on 6th January, 2024 at Chris VI Hotel Ahiara Mbaise.
The planned “Mbaise Community Centre would be one of a kind in the country. An all encompassing complex, the center boasts of a library, a skills acquisition centre, an ICT training centre, a museum to curate Mbaise history and heritage, three events halls, accommodation facilities, and full recreational center”, according to a source from the organisers.
Mbaise Connect Global Initiative, with membership of Mbaise citizens across 82 countries of the world, was formed to help identify and link up with Mbaise sons across the world, but also bring together, people who love the community with a burning desire to make it a livable and condusive place for this generation and those yet unborn.
Accordibg to MCGI source, the group is motivated “by the need to pull philanthropic resources together to scale up interventions from people engaged in doing small things in their own little ways so they join hands with others to move mountains in very phenomenal ways”.
With its focus on education, health, and economic empowerment, MCGI intervened in critical social sectors across Mbaise Homeland in the last five years.
It built and equipped three hitech computer centers with high speed internet facilities, first at St Patrick’s Secondary School Ogbe, Mbaise Secondary School Aboh and Mbaise Girl’s High School Onicha in Ahiazu Mbaise, Aboh Mbaise and Ezinihitte Mbaise local government areas respectively.
The group has also renovated two health centers in Ekwereazu Ahiazu Mbaise and another at Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise.
MCGI handed over a newly built Quarters for Nurses at the Primary Health Centre, Ezeagbogu Ezinihitte Mbaise to the community on 31st December, 2023, while it had written off hospital bills of over 150 patients in about 10 hospitals across Mbaise.
In the area of economic empowerment, MCGI has given out over a hundred sewing machines to young people to support their entrepreneurship, and over 200 widows have benefitted from their SME small capital grants in addition to its yearly Christmas Largesse for those in need across the Mbaise community.
