In furtherance of its efforts to make life more meaningful for the needy and fulfill the desires of sharing and putting smiles on the faces of people in need within the society, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Mercy Ayanbiola Charity Foundation (MACAF), as part of its third anniversary, extend its charity activities to more people.
The foundation in addition to giving out food and clothing materials on the premise of the belief that once the burden of hunger is removed, the weight of poverty is drastically reduced, empowered some women to put them on the path of financial independence and also gave out writing materials to pupils in public junior and senior secondary schools.
The foundation also created a platform for women to have a session on how to be role models to their children, the need for having streams of income and also ways of making profit from little commercial ventures as well as the need to ensure that their children and wards get the right training.
In her welcome speech, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MACAF, Mrs Lucia Ayanbiola said the NGO was set up basically as a non for profit humanitarian service body that is centred on providing succor to the less privileged in the society and the needy, especially women, who bear the burden of poverty in the family.
She added that “I have been able to carry out this daunting obligation of social responsibilities and humanitarian efforts of building people without any ulterior motive or anticipation of pecuniary gains because it is a deep fulfillment of my heart desires to share whatever I have with others in fulfillment of the instruction of the Lord that we should love our neigbours as ourselves.
“My interactions with people in the society as a school teacher, especially within the circle of the less privileged majority, enabled me to see that many people live without the basics need, I also realised that we cannot leave everything to the government if we indeed desire a better society; I saw many that lack food, children going to school without shoes and in tattered uniforms and I knew we all have a role to play.”
“So I started doing all I could to help those within my reach but after my retirement from the teaching profession, I decided to go fully into the ministry of touching lives. And in three years, we have done more than we expected; we have paid WAEC examination fees for some indigent secondary school students, two of them are from Olubi Grammar School, Molete, distribution of grinding machines to indigent people, start up for widows, hospital fee subsidisation for poor patients in general and teaching hospitals and distribution of foodstuff twice a month among other assistance rendered based on requests,” she added.
She also used the opportunity to call on government at all levels, to intensify efforts in their poverty alleviation programmes in order to wipe out the cycle of poverty in the Nigerian society.
The anniversary celebration was a two-in-one featuring an anniversary lecture with the them ‘Youths and corruption: Cause and solutions as well as an award presentation ceremony.
Awardees at the event which held at the IMG primary school, Alake, Eleta in Ibadan include Comrade Jadesola Ajibola, (NAWOJ chairperson, Oyo State and GM, Inspiration FM), Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare (Women Editor, Tribune), Ajibola Akinyefa (Lagelu FM), Hon. Dawood Olalere, Hon. Modiu Akande Alabamusa and Hon. Yinka Omikunle of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Nike Olabiwonninu ( Pensioners FM) and Alh. Bankole Hammed (Governor General, Agbekoya solidarity Movement of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter), amongst others.
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