About New Okigwe School

New Okigwe School was built in 2023, and now has 165 students! It is a large school, and the area here is quickly growing. We will install a second borehole here to meet the needs of the growing community. Here is the miraculous story of New Okigwe from Missionary Phyllis Sortor: Ok, now that I'm calm, I'll retell the miracle that just happened this morning. Some time ago we were driving through Okigwe, Imo State, Nigeria. We were stopped at a junction when a Fulani man came to the car, introduced himself as Yusuf, a relative to Mogodi, and asked us to visit their camp. He knew about Hope Academy in Kogi State and begged us to build a school for them, there in Okigwe. More time had passed when my friend Mrs. McKay contacted me asking whether we'd built that school for the Fulani children in Okigwe. My friend's father had recently passed away; she wanted to build the Okigwe school in his memory. I phoned my Fulani colleague, Mogodi, asking about the situation in Okigwe. Mogodi advised me NOT to go there, that the area was very hostile towards Fulani. All the Okigwe Fulani had fled the area. I had to tell my friend we couldn't build a school for the Okigwe Fulani; they'd left the area and I had no idea where they'd gone. We'd need to think about another group of Fulani who might need a school. Then, THIS MORNING, our SFA staff member, Haruna, asked if on our way south, we could stop at one Fulani village near Itobe, just minutes from Hope Academy, as his friend there had told him of their hundreds of children with no school. I said sure, we could stop by. We would pick up a guide, Haruna said, as the village was hard to locate. The guide was waiting across from the tile works, along the Itobe Lokoja road. He got in the car, reached over and shook my hand. "Do you remember me?" he asked. "I'm Yusuf, the one you met in Okigwe. All of us from Okigwe had to leave the area because of persecution. We've settled in a village here. We have something like 500 children who need a school. Will you help us please?" And THAT, my friends, is a bona fide, April 2022 miracle! I would say, God REALLY wants that school in 'New Okigwe'!