How Uncle Speed and 27 Bakassi Kids Celebrated Children’s Day

27 kids from Government Primary School, Ikang in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State celebrated this year’s Children’s Day for the first time outside their local council, when Uncle Speed took them a on free Education Tour to Tinapa Resort in Calabar. The kids travelled alongside Uncle Speed, their Head Teacher Mr. Evogor Emeng and three other Staff from Ikang; there were fun stop-overs at the Roundabouts in front of University of Calabar and at the Entrance of Calabar before heading towards Africa’s Premier Business and Leisure Resort. At Tinapa, a Tour Guide led the kids to sight-see the Shopping Malls, where they saw a bouquet of product offers and spent time window-shopping and absorbing the vast array of displays of world class brands on display. The Tour Guide told the kids that the prices of goods sold within Tinapa are the lowest in Nigeria. The kids were also told about the Tinapa Technology City, and they took photos at the entrance of the City in that hopes someday, they would be around to learn a few things when its opened June this year, as the Guide said. The Games Arcade, the tour guide said, “is the ideal place for pure and undiluted fun.” And the kids confirmed that. It was like a paradise of games. But the kids could not stay forever in this ‘Paradise’; the Fisherman’s Wharf (which overlooks the Artificial Lake in Tinapa) was waiting to be sight-seen. After leaving the Wharf, the kids anxiously walked past the impressive Tinapa Lakeside Hotel straight into the water park. At Tinapa Waterparks they accepted the invitation to experience unequalled family fun. They dived into a lazy river, rode in a sky dive, enjoyed the game of volleyball (even though they couldn’t play), and mingled with lots of other kids and families. Before they returned to Ikang, Uncle Speed presented lots of gifts, including exercise books, math sets, uniforms, sandals, water bottles, umbrellas, and wrist watches, to the kids. The gifts had been donated by big-hearted Nigerians like Julius Agwu, Kevin Chuwang Pam, Senator the Comedian, and 24 other donors whom the Children referred to as Angels. The Free Education Tour is an initiative of Project 27 Africa, an NGO founded by Uncle Speed with a vision to take 27 Million Kids from Rural Africa on Free Education Tours by May 27, 2027.