St. Patrick’s (Bodo)

4° 37’ 41” N  7° 16’ 22” E

Ground zero for our work at St. Patrick’s – Scott Pegg meeting with Father Abel Agbulu in 2015.
St. Patrick’s Nursery and Primary School in Bodo is by far the largest school we serve. Their approximately 600 children account for about 41% of all the children we serve in the rural Niger Delta.
A big group of St. Patrick’s primary students on July 3, 2025.
The main classroom building at St. Patrick’s. St. Patrick’s had this facility in place before we started helping them.
The first thing we did to help St. Patrick’s was equip and supply a sickbay for them.
Some of the supplies at our sickbay at St. Patrick’s Nursery and Primary School.
Dr. Nabie examining a student at St. Patrick’s in November 2019. The student was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with anti-malarial medication and Tylenol.
As many St. Patrick’s kids as could fit in the photo during our school health program visit in December 2022.
Group photo with all the kids that fit during our health program visit to St. Patrick’s Nursery and Primary School in late 2024.
One of the classrooms at St. Patrick’s Nursery and Primary School in Bodo, Rivers State, Nigeria, June 2018.
Separating boys and girls (girls shown here) to do a student headcount at St. Patrick’s on June 27, 2018. We are so pleased to report that 53.19% (317 students) of St. Patrick’s students are girls and 46.81% (279 students) are boys.
Scott Pegg speaking to a large group of students at St. Patrick’s in 2018 when his then 12 year-old son Kerem standing next to him.
From left to right, Dr. Nabie Nubari Francis, Kerem Pegg, Father Stephen Amadi, Scott Pegg and one of the associate priests at St. Patrick’s, June 2018.
The “house” or team named after Scott Pegg which competed in the intra-mural sports competition at St. Patrick’s in March 2025.
Scott Pegg having fun with “Great House C” at St. Patrick’s on July 3, 2025.
Giving Vitamin A supplements to students at St. Patrick’s, November 2019.
Giving deworming treatment tablets to St. Patrick’s students, November 2019.
One of our nurses preparing a tetanus shot at St. Patrick’s, November 2019.
St. Patrick’s student receiving a tetanus shot.
Group of St. Patrick’s girl students after receiving their tetanus shots, November 2019.
We now continue our partnership with a third priest at St. Patrick’s. Father Anthony Bakel, left, is meeting with Dr. Nabie Nubari Francis, our health and nutrition program coordinator in May 2020.
Deworming children at St. Patrick’s, late November 2021.