THE Uga Improvement Union (UIU) on Monday donated gift items to Compassionate Orphanage Home at Isheri, Lagos to mark the Easter celebration with the less privileged.
Mrs Ngozi Ezeamama, Chairperson, UIU, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the side-lines of the presentation that Uga women believe that the best way of celebrating Easter was to show love to the less privileged.
“At the beginning of February, UIU gathered in our secretariat to pray and to seek the face of God for guidance.
“We agreed at the end of the prayer session that we will visit the orphanage home at Easter, to show them love and care.
“We appeal to other women groups to always remember the less privileged as our token can go a long way to bring joy to their lives,’’ Ezeamama said.
The chairperson expressed appreciation for the great job the management of the orphanage home was doing.
She prayed that God would continue to give them the heart and financial support to take care of the children.
Ezeamama appealed to other women groups and the rich people in society to use their wealth to bring happiness to the less privileged.
She said that the Easter season reminded everybody of the great sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary, adding that nothing was too small to bring joy to the neglected and abandoned children in the society.
On her part, Mrs Olamide Fagbenro, Project Officer, Compassionate Orphanage Home, expressed gratitude to the UIU for coming to identify with the orphanage.
Fagbenro said that the orphanage had a total of 57 children, eight of which were already university undergraduates.
She said that the children fell into the category of those abandoned on the streets and were rescued in collaboration with the state government.
The project officer said that the orphanage was in need of food items, a washing machine, a generating set and a bus for conveying the children to school.
Items presented to the orphanage included: 2 tins of Ikg milo, 2 tins of Dano milk, one roll of toiletries, one bag of rice, two cartons of Caprisone drink, one carton of Happy Hour and two 900g of Omo detergent.
Others included three cartons of biscuits, half dozens of Joy bath soap, one carton of malt, one carton of Origin zero drink and half a dozen of Dettol.
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