A humanitarian group, Society for the Caring of Orphans and HIV Persons, has donated food items and cash gifts to identified homes and centres in Southeast Nigeria.

The focal states covered in the geopolitical region between December 2024 and now are Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu, and Abia states. The society, founded in 2006 and chaired by the late Keziah Ugonma Opara, popularly known as Kez Opara, a recipient of the national merit honours, also has Mrs Khadijat Ada Adisa, a humanitarian, as the national coordinator and Toyin Belawu Adisa, the Project Coordinator.

The society’s activities and areas of deliverable are centred on caregiving, touching lives, providing succour and support to the vulnerable, orphans, widows, children, and persons infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

Speaking at the weekend, the project coordinator, Toyin Adisa, identified some of the homes visited within the period under review, with various food items and cash gifts.

They are Holy Innocent Motherless Babies home, Holy Name Missionary Orphanage home, Faith Community Children’s Home, and others. The items donated to the homes for their upkeep are bags of rice, cartons of Indomie, cartons of peak milk, and cartons of Custards.

Adisa, who is the daughter of a former military governor of Oyo State and one-time Minister of Works and Housing, the late Gen. Abdulkareem Adisa (rtd), disclosed that she felt fulfilled touching lives. She said: “We take care of orphans, widows, women and children in general. We visit different communities across different states in Nigeria.

“We visit orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, hospitals, and most times, old peoples’ homes.

“The excitement and sense of fulfilment in putting smiles on the faces of the beneficiaries of the items are my driving force in touching more lives in such a manner.”

According to her, the funding of the programme was mostly from personal efforts.