A 300 level student of
the music department in the University of Port Harcourt has emerged winner of
the January edition of the “Help the Hard worker” competition organized by the
popular non-governmental organization, Princewill’s Trust for entrepreneurs,
youths and Rivers residents who are engaged in micro business ventures and all
forms of hard work in Rivers State.
Mr. George Tamunomenji
Amonia beat over one thousand contestants who entered for the contest to emerge
winner for the month of January 2020, with Mr. Princewill Goodluck and Miss
Duru Cynthia emerging first and second runners up respectively.
Receiving the cash
prize of One Hundred Thousand Naira at his gaming centre premises in Buguma
city, capital of the Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr.
George thanked the organizers and described the gesture as a big testimony to
the fact that hard work and consistency actually do pay.
He noted that, he
started out the business with funds realized from menial jobs and called on
youths in the state to look for other tangible activities such as fishing,
farming and any vocational activity, rather than waiting for white collar jobs
or engaging in criminal activities or economic crimes within the state and
around the country at large.
On her part, a highly
elated mother of the winner, Deaconess Fabia Amonia George thanked the team
from Princewills Trust for the gesture which she initially had doubts about.
She confessed though that the doubts have now been cleared by the arrival of the
team in Buguma and the handing over of the prize to her son. She commended the
founder of the Trust, Prince Tonye T.J.T Princewill for the initiative and
prayed for more blessing in his life to enable him sustain the good work the
Trust is doing.
Speaking on behalf of
Princewill’s Trust, Dagogo Emmanuel stated that the aim of the Princewill’s
Trust is to contribute to the development of Rivers State through little
support to entrepreneurs of small, micro and medium scale business owners to
enable them expand their business and in turn create jobs which in turn help
reduce poverty and so making a small contribution to bridging the inequality
gap in the state.
Dagogo also used the
opportunity to call on youths in the state to be peaceful and law abiding so as
to give the state a positive image which will not only help attract the needed
investments into the state but will enable existing businesses strive, which
will in turn create job opportunities, reduce poverty and improve our
development.
Finally, he called on
other Rivers men and women, small business owners, youths and hard workers in
the state to take advantage of the Princewill’s Trust initiative by going to
register for the February edition of the competition as they too might emerge
winners of the competition some day. With almost two decades of giving back,
the Trust has been engaged in many interventions from small business support,
women and skills development, disaster relief, scholarships, youth engagement
and continuous medical outreach.
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Nwaorgu
Faustinus for Princewill’s Trust Media Team
