By Grace Alegba
Contact of Love and Lifting Palms Basis has fed and offered Christmas presents to 500 aged residents and susceptible individuals in Lagos, marking the shut of its eighth annual humanitarian week.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) stories that the weeklong programme featured reward and fellowship, well being talks, free medical screenings and medicines, capacity-building coaching for widows, and a Christmas get together.
Founding father of the muse, Dr Atinuke Owolabi, on Wednesday, stated the humanitarian week was organised to make sure that senior residents and susceptible individuals skilled the enjoyment and care of the Christmas season.
“It has been every week full of compassion, celebration, care and significant connection, devoted to enriching communities and empowering our senior residents, widows and susceptible members of society,” Owolabi stated.
She defined that the initiative was pushed by love and compassion, including that it was designed not solely to fulfill wants but additionally to revive dignity, pleasure and a way of belonging.
“Our actions usually are not nearly assembly wants. They’re about restoring dignity, pleasure and hope, and reminding our beneficiaries that they’re valued and never forgotten,” she stated.
Owolabi introduced that winners of varied video games throughout the celebration would obtain free one-year medical health insurance enrolment to make sure continued entry to healthcare.
She additionally disclosed that 20 empowerment enrolment kinds can be issued to lively widows to allow them to register on the Girls Growth Centre in Agege.
“This can be a dedication we uphold yearly, and to the glory of God, we proceed to obtain testimonies of remodeled lives, restored hope and renewed objective,” she added.
Addressing the aged beneficiaries, Owolabi described them as the muse of households and communities.
“Your lives, sacrifices, knowledge and resilience have laid the muse for our society. You should be celebrated, honoured and cared for, and seeing your smiles at present is among the best rewards of this humanitarian journey,” she stated.
She thanked volunteers, medical professionals, companions, donors and neighborhood leaders whose assist made the humanitarian week profitable.
Owolabi, who’s the South-West Consultant on the Board of the North Central Growth Fee, additionally thanked President Bola Tinubu for her appointment and pledged to increase the muse’s humanitarian interventions to South-West communities throughout the seven states of the North-Central area.
“That is my calling, and by God’s grace, we are going to be sure that improvement reaches each nook it’s meant to the touch,” she stated.
She defined that the Tinubu Cares Initiative, which she convenes, is a structured humanitarian and empowerment platform centered on senior residents, widows, susceptible and displaced individuals.
In accordance with her, the initiative helps beneficiaries via welfare help, well being interventions, expertise improvement and financial reintegration.
“Tinubu Cares displays the assumption that management compassion ought to encourage accountable citizen motion and significant neighborhood influence,” Owolabi stated.
She added that caring for the aged and susceptible was important to constructing a stronger society.
“A society that honours its aged strengthens its future. Once we look after essentially the most susceptible amongst us, we protect our values, promote unity and construct stronger communities,” she famous. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Olawunmi Ashafa
