The “Think Home Philosophy” that has gained traction amongst the Igbo urging investors, entrepreneurs and businessmen of South East extraction to invest as well as look towards the oriental orbit for all manner of projects has been strictly adhered to by a progressive minded NGO known as the Mbaise Connect Global Initiative, MCGI.
After a comprehensive research and thorough analysis based on a fact finding investigation, the Ohaneze Ndigbo came to the realization that the South East zone could actually re- enact its miracles of the First Republic of the 1960s when the Eastern Region was adjudged as the Fastest Growing Economy in the World by the World Bank as reported by the influential international magazine, TIME.
Between the one decade of 1940 and 1950, virtually all the communities in the Igbo country had embarked on communial development projects and schemes like road reconstruction/ reconstruction, establishment of primary/secondary school, building of health centres as well as post offices and church buildings.
In Mbaise, for instance, the Chief N. D Ukah-led Mbaise County Council saw to the establishment of the magnificent Mbaise General Hospital as well as the well tailored Mbaise Secondary School. Within those periods, almost all the communities in the Mbaise Nation had built one significant secondary school or had commenced the processes of having one at their various enclaves.
Sadly, six decades off the year of the establishment of those pioneering and symbolic schools, they have all collapsed, dilapidated and are completely in their last phases of ruination and total decapitation!!!
Alarmed and perturbed by the current sorry state of those prime secondary schools and the imminent danger of facing extinction, the Mbaise Connect Global Initiative (MCGI), with members in 82 countries of the world, had graciously and devotionally moved to rescue, reposition and repackage some of the elite secondary schools that dramatically and sensationally advanced Mbaise’s course of community development as well as social engineering but now regrettably abandoned.
In health, and economic empowerment, according to a published report, “MCGI has in the last five years intervened in critical social sectors across Mbaise Homeland. In education, the group has built and equipped three hitech computer centers with high speed internet facilities in three secondary schools across the three local government areas of Mbaise”.
The schools that have so far benefitted from MCGI’s commendable interventions are St. Patrick’s Secondary School Ogbe, Ahiazu Mbaise, Mbaise Secondary School Aboh Mbaise and Mbaise Girls High School Onicha Ezinihitte Mbaise.
As a rescue missionary, the MCGI does not concern itself with only education uplift or secondary school rebranding, its intervention tentacles cut across other sectors like health and economy. For instance, the group has renovated two health centers in Ekwerazu Ahiazu Mbaise and at Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise.
Remarkably, and this must be proclaimed to high heavens to wit: on the December 31,2023, MCGI handed over a newly built Nurses’ Quarters at the Primary Health Centre, Ezeagbogu Ezinihitte Mbaise, the host community.
Since economy plays a crucial even sensitive role the rapid development of any community, state or country, MCGI has equally has also carried out economic empowerment across Mbaise Nation. The group has given out over a hundred sewing machines to the youths to support their entrepreneurship, and over 200 widows have benefitted from their SME small capital grants.
It also fetes the less privileged during Christmas festivities.
It is worthy of mention that MCGI’s charity band humanitarian activities have written off hospital bills of over 150 patients in about 10 hospitals across Mbaise Nation.
A recorded account has it that “To scale up their projects, MCGI is embarking on the construction of a Signature project in Mbaise to enable them carry out most of their development oriented philanthropic gestures, create employment, and add to the rising beautiful aesthetic landscape of Mbaise Homeland.
“The project named Mbaise Community Centre would be one of a kind in the country. An all encompassing complex, the centre 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 centre.
“To this effect, the organization will assemble a roll-call of Who-is-Who in Mbaise Homeland for a special gathering on Saturday, the 6th of January, 2024 at Chris VI Hotel, Mbaise to join in transforming Ala Mbaise”.