Foundation donates to orphanage

Our Reporter

In its quest to bring succour to orphans and the underprivileged, the Ancestral Pride Foundation (APF)  has donated food items and cash to Ijamido Children Home in Ota, a suburb of Ogun State

The President, Oluwo Ifaniyi Fashola, led its members and other guests to the orphanage  as part of activities marking the annual Ifa/Orisa Festival. Speaking at the donation ceremony, Ifaniyi said the foundation is out to touch lives.

The children at the orphanage dramatised with different costumes of some deities such as Sango, Ogun, Osun and Egungun to showcase Yoruba culture.

The home’s Managing Director, who was also the home’s first child from three months, Dr Abosede Obakoya, thanked the foundation for deeming it fit to remember the orphanage.

She urged governments and well meaning individuals to emulate the foundation’s gestures, saying it would complement the efforts of reducing crime in the society.

The three-in-one festival, with the theme: Restoration of moral values in our youths through Yoruba traditional religion and culture, was also used to celebrate the foundation’s second year anniversary and its president’s birthday.

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At the festival, Ifaniyi said Nigeria would have been one of the world’s top tourism destination if culture sector had not been neglected, adding that the foundation would not relent in its efforts to enlighten the public on the importance of traditions in the society.

He appealed to parents and teachers to support the gospel of resuscitating and restoring the traditional cultures in the home, stating that this could be achieved through enhancement of teaching children/wards the moral values of Yoruba cultures.

He said: “The mission and vision of the foundation was to continuously propagate the importance of imbibing traditional culture in the society. The adverse effects of neglecting traditional culture  were the example of indecency both in behaviour/dressings by the youth, corruption, criminality and other social vices in the society.

“Some of people do not believe in speaking their languages and dialects to their children as this,as commonly believed, would hinder their brilliance in the school.’’