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  • Rotary donates to orphanage

    THe Rotary Club of FESTAC Town has donated items, including refrigerator, cartons of Indomine noodles, toiletries and frozen foods to Beth Torrey Home, a home for mentally challenged children in Amuwo, FESTAC, Lagos.

    The club also gave a cheque of an undisclosed amount, among other things, to a senior citizen/charter member of the club, Balley Dipo.

    Two students were presented scholarship for the next academic year, which covers school fees and books at Fore Sight International School in Festac, Lagos.

    The club also embarked on a tree planting project at Apple Junction, in Festac area of the state.

    The club members were led by the President, Felix Nnamezie in company of the visiting District Governor, District 9110, Kola Sodipo.

    Speaking after the donations at the club’s meeting in Golden Tulip Hotel, FESTAC, Sodipo said the gestures were inline with the vision and mission of Rotary, which seeks to serve humanity and contribute meaningfully to the society.

    Nnamezie commended the club for the donations, saying the gestures were to assist and make life better for others.

    “We in Rotary have an obligation to help others.

    We have been able to identify what is needed in the Home and we have brought them as a way to give them assistance and make life a bit better for them. The club did not just give them anything; they were given what was actually needed.

    “I am impressed with what I have seen so far; the tree planting and donation to the senior citizen is also part of our ways to give back to the society.”

    He said Rotary Club is meant to empower people in the community, urging the members to give maximum support to the president and to see all projects ahead as a team work.

    “All the club members must work closely with the president, because he needs them to achieve the mandate of Rotary geared towards community service.

    “We want more membership in Rotary; we need quality people, who will bring varieties of thoughts.  They must be people of integrity, who can add value to the progress of the club.” he said.

    He added that the gesture was aimed at giving moral support to the less privileged as well as to encourage and give them hope for a better life.

    He said the tree planting was their way to key into the project of the state government on Greener Lagos and to make the environment clean.

    He urged Nigerians to always give back to the society no matter how small, saying it is a means of showing gratitude to God

    He said it is statutory and compulsorily that every club receives the district governor once a year.

    “Through the visit, the district governor is to see what we are doing, what we plan to do, where we are doing well and where we are not doing too well to help with advises, adjustments and recommendations.”

    Administrator of the Home, Mrs. Tayo Udoh, appreciated the club for the gesture.

    “Thank you for coming here, you have met some of our basic needs and what you have given us is what we have requested for,” he said.

     

  • Orphanage gets free Medicare, foodstuffs

    Our Daily Manna (ODM) Ministry has donated food stuffs and provisions to an orphanage, Hearts of Gold Children’s Hospice, in Lagos.

    It also offered the orphanage free medical care.

    ODM leader Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe said the outreach took place simultaneously in Lekki and Ogudu in Lagos State and in 100 centres across the world where the group has branches.

    Medications, rice, noodles, biscuits, eggs, cornflakes, milk, sugar, groundnut palm oil, and toiletries, among others, were given out.

    Kwakpovwe said the gesture was a directive from God to put smiles on the faces of the less-privileged and to give them hope for the future.

    The gesture, he added, was to show mercy. He said many of the beneficiaries he attended to had High Blood Pressure (HBP).

    “We thank God we have the medicines that lower BP which we dispensed to the beneficiaries and we also prayed with every one of them,” Kwakpovwe said.

    He urged Nigerians, government and corporate bodies to live for posterity and not for prosperity, adding that they should impact positively on the needy.

    According to him, the outreach would go viral next year.

    A beneficiary, Robinson Inyang, described the programme as a noble exercise that should be sustained.

  • Lawmaker lifts orphanage

    Lawmaker lifts orphanage

    Leader of Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Legislative House Remy Shittu Remy, has donated items to So-Said Charity Home in Isolo, Lagos

    The items, including rice, notebooks, writing materials, liquid wash, beverages and foodstuff were presented to the home, comprising children, widows and the physically challenged, among others.

    Shittu Remy also gave 10 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) forms to pupils, who excelled in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the council.

    He also unveiled Remy Shittu Foundation.

    According to him, the gesture was in fulfilment of his campaign promises to help the less privileged.

    “The UTME forms are my way to motivate young ones, ease their financial burden and contribute to the educational sector,” he said.

    According to him, the foundation would provide educational support to pupils and empower widows, physically challenged as well as the less privileged.

    So-Said Orphanage Administrator Mrs Roselyn Banks thanked Shitu Remy, described his gesture as fantastic, marvellous and prayer answered.

    “The Home is for vulnerable persons and we make our people to know that all hope is not lost. We have many challenges here and government cannot do it all, we need financial assistance to fix our compound which gets water lodged during the rainy season; we also need help for sewage,” she said.

  • Orphanage produces two graduates, calls for support

    The management of Christ Foundation Orphanage in Kuje, Abuja, says it has produced two graduates and five undergraduates presently at different course levels in universities.

    Mr Gabriel Okuta, the proprietor of the faith-based home said this on Monday when some group of women paid the management of the home a courtesy visit to donate some gift items to commemorate Easter.

    He said one of the orphans graduated as a psychologist from Ekpoma University, Edo and she had been posted for her National Youth Service programme.

    He said the other graduate studied Education Management at the University of Abuja, noting that there were 47 children presently in the home.

    He called on Nigerians to help the home by providing beddings, food stuffs and other items that could make life easy for them.

    “Finance has been our major constraint, we need a school bus and we hope to finish the six blocks of classroom, running the home of about 47 children is a challenge,’’ he said.

    Okuta also noted that the children at the orphanage were faced with health challenges, calling on Nigerians to help.

    He said the orphanage often got their children through partnership with police, adding that some abandoned children seen by the police were often brought to the orphanage for proper care.

    Joseph Gabriel, an orphan who referred to Okuta as his parent, said that he would like to be a soldier when he grew up.

    “I am now in primary two, Mr and Mrs Gabriel Okuta are my parents and I want to be a soldier so that I can help people,’’ he said.

    Also Peculiar Gabriel, an orphan, said she would want to be a teacher in future to make people learn how to read.

    Christ Foundation Orphanage is a registered non-governmental organisation established in 2004 to ensure that every child under its care acquires basic education and outstanding socio-cultural background.

  • Abuja community protests plan to demolish houses, orphanage

    Abuja community protests plan to demolish houses, orphanage

    RESIDENTS of Kurudu community in Abuja, yesterday protested plans to demolish their homes by a Nigerian police force estate developer. The residents mainly from Zone B, C and E areas, accused the developer of defying court injunctions by trying to extend the estate and making them homeless.

    The aggrieved residents provided enough prove to show that the land tussle with the developer, which has been ongoing for a couple of years was taken to court and the case rightfully won by them in 2012. But according to them, they were surprised when on Wednesday, 25th of January, 2017, the developer whom they referred to as the D-Don had appeared in the company with armed policemen and some Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) officials and threatened them to vacate their homes within 48 hours.

    The places marked for demolition without any form of compensation or relocation plans include: an orphanage home, school, church, mosque and a lot of residential homes. Women representative of the area, Mrs Paul Ekaitte stated. “We had a case with them a long time ago, we took the case to court and won. Now they say that they will just come and demolish, they said that they don’t want to hear anything, the man they call D-Don is the one that is our main problem, he is the developer for the police estate.

    “The order to demolish is not coming from anyone else than the developer, our homes is sharing a boundary with the estate, he wants to extend the estate by making us homeless. “We have taken the case to the Federal Capital Development Area (FCDA), we met with the minister and he said that he was not aware of the case, he directed us to the director in FCDA and they have promised to look into the matter.” Another resident, Asabe Nzakor explained that the notice for demolition was brought without prior notice.

  • Omisore pays patients’ bills at OAUTH, visits orphanage homes

    Omisore pays patients’ bills at OAUTH, visits orphanage homes

    Former Osun State Deputy Governor Senator Iyiola Omisore has visited  some patients of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), IIe- Ife, and children and care givers at the Covenant Orphanage and Welfare Centre in Moro, Osun State, where he paid their bills and gave them gifts.

    At the OAUTH, he was received by the top management staff of the hospital led by the Chief Medical Director, Prof Victor Adetiloye.

    Others at the event were the Director of Administration, Mrs Bola Alejo; Professor of Plastic Surgery,  Kayode Olabanji; Director of Finance Alhaji M. S. Olaobaju; Head of Nursing, Mr. J. B. Oni; the hospital Public Relations, Miss Oluwakemi Fasoto;  Head of Servicom, Mr Tajudeen Balogun, and Dr. J.Olusanyan

    Adetiloye thanked Senator Omisore for choosing to spend his first day, yearly, with patients of OAUTH and at orphanage homes.

    He listed several intervention projects that Omisore has executed at the hospital. They include provision of water, roads, and new wards.

    “Today as usual, Senator Omisore has brought salvation to many of our patients. As we stand here today, all the structures standing at the Phase Four of our expansion programme were all facilitated by our noble Senator.Through his support and other corporate organisations, we have developed the hospital to an international standard. Our quality of service is equal to none in West Africa. We receive patients from across Nigeria. We have experts in all fields of medical practice; and we perform rare feats because we operate at a global standard. Despite that, our services remain the cheapest; we charge at an affordable level, but even at that, many patients cannot still afford to pay.

    “Though it is a Federal Government institution, government cannot do it alone. It is from the little we charge that we cover our administrative expenses. If not for such support we receive from people like Senator Omisore, we might not have been able to develop our services to this enviable level. Here, we have been able to perform open heart surgery on 14 patients. We are known worldwide for renal transplantation; our doctors are renowned all over the world,’’ Adetiloye said

    Commending Omisore, he said: “For coming every year to bring relief to our poor patients, you have heeded a call from God to help the needy. We want to appeal to other leaders in our society to emulate such a noble gesture of Senator Omisore at giving back and creating values to their communities.’’

    Adetiloye led Senator Omisore and his entourage on tour of every ward in the hospital where the  former deputy governor met, prayed, inspired the patients and handed each a pack of gifts.

    He rounded off the visit at the detaining patients section where poor patients that have been discharged for as long as eight months,  but were being detained beacuse of their inability to pay their huge  bills.

    Senator Omisore sat with the  patients, inquired from them about their problem. He immediately paid their outstanding bills to the admiration of everybody. This gesture brought tears of joy to the detained patients, some of whom came from other regions of the country.

    Omisore and his convoy later drove to the Covenant Orphanage and Welfare Centre in Moro,  another community in the state.

    He was received with appreciative songs by the inmates and care givers at the home. Omisore sang, danced, prayed for them and presented packs of food items, which included bags of 50kgs rice, indomie noodles, gallons of oil, bags of beans, cartons of tooth paste, beverages and various soft drinks.

    He appealed to Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper. “You don’t have to be rich to help others in need. A little assistance will go a long way in the life of a needy. At the hospital, both the in-patients and the detained patients always wait for me to come and bail them out on January 1st of every year; and I am always happy to bring that relief to them. I pray for God’s grace to continue,” Senator Omisore added.

  • Alumni association donates to orphanage

    To mark the end of the year, alumni association of the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), Regular Course 27, at the weekend donated support materials to Abuja children’s home at Karo.

    President and Commandant of the National Defense College (NDC), Rear Admiral Samuel Alade, led members of the association to the orphanage home.

    Rear Admiral Alade said the association was formed to support its members and meet at the end of every year to bond better.

    The president said next year’s event would likely be extended to Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps depending on the plans of the association for the year.

    He commended the management and staffs of the home for their taking good care of the children and stated its association’s commitment to further support the home.

    Rear Admiral Alade advised the children and taxed them to be hard working and determined as that will spur them the greater heights.

    His words: ”This association was formed essentially to support members and we have been on it for some time now, we meet every December and get together to reunite our families.

    “Next year God willing we might choose something else to do, we may even visit (IDP) depending on the decision of the association. This year we decided that we are going to do charity work and that is why we are here.

    “You also have the opportunity and the privilege as well to be like us tomorrow, I want to pray for you that God will see you through and take care of you.

    “Individually you also have your responsibility, you must work very hard, don’t wait that somebody is going to carry you there you must work very hard and pass your exams so that you can be like us tomorrow.

    “Today at the end of the we will wine and dine together and pray to god that we are seeing the end of the year, I wish every Nigerian merry Christmas and also happy new year in advance.” He added.

    Administrator of the home, Sulaiman Umar, lauded the efforts of the association and thanked them, looking forward to more support from them

    Umar who said partnering with government and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NDOs) has been the main source for running the home, seek more assistance from the general public as the support they are getting is not sufficient enough to cater for the population of children in the home.

    According to Umar :“It is a welcome development , I am very happy , I thank them and look forward to seeing them more.

    “Doing this kind of job needs more assistance, it is not only the government and NGOs, we need individuals to support the home. Individual support and other donor agencies has been the source of support for the home,” he added.

  • Corps members donate foodstuff to orphanage

    Some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) yesterday in Calabar donated foodstuff and toiletries worth N100, 000 to the Uwanse Orphanage Home.

    The items include three bags of rice, seven packets of Maggi cubes, six cartoons indomie noodles, groundnut oil, detergent and soap.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the corps members under the aegis of Community Development Service Group on Charity made the donation.

    The President of the group, Mrs Ann Ubi, said the donation was part of the group’s objective to show love and care to the underprivileged.

    She said the children needed the support, love and care of members of the public for integration and purposeful living.

    ”We have to make this donation because children in this home need support and care from members of the public. We had to tax ourselves for this humanitarian service, ’’she said.

    Another member of the group, Mr Philip Abani, promised that the group would continue to identify with the home in all its activities.

    Mr Ogban Ogban, an NYSC official, who accompanied the corps members, encouraged the children to be hopeful with a determination to success in life.

    Receiving the items on behalf of the home, Mrs Felicia Oti, thanked the group for the gesture.

    Oti said the gifts would go a long way to take care of the needs of the children.

    “We seize this opportunity to call on well-meaning individuals, philanthropists and corporate organisations to emulate the corps members’ gesture.

  • Lagos to improve facilities at orphanage, rehab homes — Commissioner

    Lagos to improve facilities at orphanage, rehab homes — Commissioner

    Lagos State Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Pharm (Mrs) Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, has said that the state government is set to consolidate on the improved orphanage and rehabilitation homes across the state.

    Akinbile-Yussuf disclosed this during a maiden interactive session with founders and managers of orphanage and rehabilitation homes on yesterday.

    The forum which was convened by the commissioner focused on finding solutions to major problems confronting the homes throughout the state.

    The commissioner said: “The Ambode-led administration will leave no stone unturned in taking the state to the next level. Meanwhile, in doing this, all the orphanage and rehabilitation centres would be adequately catered for as inmates and abandoned children are part of our society.”

    She said that no society can thrive where vulnerable and the less- privileged are continuously ignored and schemed out of welfare calculations, adding that all hands must be on deck to place premium on the welfare of this section of the society.

    At the meeting, participants bore out their minds on crucial and salient issues affecting the development of the homes including finance, private and public participation, attention and so on.

    The commissioner further reiterated the government would increase the quality of service delivery at its several social centres to take care of the less privileged, the socially distressed and disadvantaged people in the society.

  • Cadbury donates to orphanage

    Cadbury donates to orphanage

    The Vice-President, Mondelez International, parent company of Cadbury Nigeria, Mr. Daniel Myers, has called on multinationals to institute a service day where employees will be required to support their communities and social projects.

    Myers said this when he visited the Hearts of Gold Hospice, Lagos in commemoration of the company’s global month of service.

    Appreciating the founder of the home, Mrs. Theresa Adedoyin, Myers said it was important for businesses to reach out to the needy.

    He said: “Giving back and working in our communities remind me that our business success is directly linked to enhancing the well-being of the people who make and enjoy our products and to supporting the communities where we grow our ingredients.

    “I have read about the good work everyone is doing – creating a peaceful, loving environment to help children dealing with very serious health challenges, who otherwise would not have such support. I am happy that we are able to help with cleaning, making repairs and brightening up the space. Last year, we had about 15,000 of our people volunteering in 71 countries.”