The president and founder of Laugh Now, Now Family, a radio programme on 105.7 FM, King Tunde Folorunsho has told the press of an upcoming carnival organised for orphans on April 27 at the National Stadium Abuja.
The festival, the first of its kind, will be held in collaboration with ASOHON.
Folorunsho said Laugh Now, Now Family, was set up by young and passionate Nigerians whose interest is to empower, promote inclusiveness, and civic engagement create an avenue to cheer up orphans.
He said one of their objectives is to organise quarterly orphan talent hunt carnivals across the states of Nigeria to create, promote, development opportunities and support for the orphans respectively.
And this is because, he said, “with the help of ASOHON, we have taken a tour round many orphanage homes and has found out the standard of living there is terrible; many orphans in some orphanage homes have neither good health care nor hope for a sound education”.
The president said in each orphanage home there are orphans raging from 50 in number to 300 and among them, you find infants of three months old and above.
He said considering how hard things are in this country, imagine how those infants are being cared for given the price of diapers and baby milk in the market- none of the children feeds well.
The founder of the programme King Tunde said it is in the light of this that they passionately invite all stakeholder organisations, organisations of the United Nations here in Nigeria, individuals to come and join in this movement towards securing a bright and better future for the orphans.
Also speaking at the press briefing, Rev Mrs Rachel Alejeh who is a member of the ASOHON, said it is important for Nigerians to come out and ensure that these children’s life are put strait.
Stating this, she added that these orphans, if not properly guided, can end up being a problem to the society.
She said that running an orphanage home is not her making but by the grace of God and with the help of good people of Nigeria because if the children are not cared for, they could wander through the wrong road thereby becoming problematic to the country such as joining bad gangs, armed robbery, prostitution, etc. She urged Nigerians not to tire of helping the orphans because their reward is sure.
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