Eastwing Aviation NGO gives scholarships to two students

Dr Christopher Edeh, the founder and CEO of Eastwing Aviation Institution, has revealed that his motivation for the establishment of the Eastwing Youth Foundation was to offer scholarships to less advantaged students.
“The sole objective is to encourage less privileged youths who are talented and meet the requirements for admission but are not able to financially pursue their dreams. Through this NGO, we can help them actualize their dreams,” he said.

The Eastwing Aviation Institute boss made this remark when he admitted two students into the institution through the instrumentality of the Eastwing Youth Foundation.

Edeh, while addressing his new students, said: “Human development is the best legacy anyone can leave behind for the coming generation. Using myself as a case study, my parents were both farmers. After each stage of education, I wasn’t expecting to go any further, like after secondary school, I didn’t expect to go to university and after my first degree, I didn’t hope to get to the PhD level; but here I am today, with the help of scholarships, a doctorate holder. Friends, not even Nigerians, whom I met overseas, missionaries I worked with, took it upon themselves to ensure that I scaled through in whatever I was doing because they believed that I was not doing badly in school, and they encouraged my progress to the apex of education.”

Edeh also implored the Southeast elites to seize the opportunity to invest in human capital and human development, especially in their region. “One thing I have noticed about the elites and investing their money is that they don’t go into something that is not fast-moving,” he noted.

Dr. Edeh, has said that the ingenuity of talented Nigerian youths who used wood, paper and scrap irons to build aircraft prototypes inspired him to establish the Eastwing Youth Foundation. The NGO, according to him, was designed to encourage young people, especially in Southeast Nigeria, to build careers as pilots or aircraft engineers or in other capacities that will enable them to work in the aviation industry without impediments.

Edeh, who underscored the capital-intensive nature of aviation education, said he established the foundation to help defray the cost for aspiring students.
“This NGO was born from the fact that you see promising youths in Nigeria and they do not have anyone to encourage them, and they are using wood, paper and cartons to build aircraft from scratch, trying to do something with their hands. When you ask them questions, they say that they want to be a pilot, aircraft engineer or work in aviation, but these dreams stay in the dreamland because nobody tries to nurture the potential,” the Eastwing Aviation Institute CEO said.

Edeh also added: “Eastwing Aviation has helped a lot of people. Currently, two people are enrolled in the National Diploma program on scholarship. The criteria for their selection for the scholarship were strictly based on interest. They approached us and we interviewed them and found out they had potential, so we decided to enroll them. An examination was taken, of course, to examine the competence of the candidates. However, the reason for accommodating people from secondary school level is that we are still building the aviation industry in the South-East. We hope that by the time the institute is established, we can follow the process of JAMB to admit aspiring students into the institute. When they are done, they will be certified and if they are capable enough, they can go for the international license too.”

The Eastwing Aviation boss noted that the sole objective of the foundation is to encourage the less privileged youths who are talented and meet the requirements but are not able to financially pursue their dreams.
“The NGO believes that we can help them and actualise their dreams,” he stated.