The Rotary Club of Festac Town has donated a baby cot and other care kits to abandoned baby in Amuwo, as well as delivery kits to 60 expectant mothers at the Amuwo Odofin Maternal and Child Centre Festac Town, Lagos.

The club said the programme was meant to mark its Maternal and Child Care month.

Speaking during the programme, the President of Rotary Club of Festac Town, Rotarian Echefu McAnthony, said it was the club’s first project for the Rotary year.

He explained that the donation to Baby Amuwo encompassed kits needed to give her optimum care.

“So, we did that project separately from the safe delivery kits for pregnant mothers. During one of our meetings with the welfare team, we found out that there was a baby that was abandoned by her mother at the hospital. We gave the baby all that would be needed to take care of her.

“This is a government hospital. We are taking the discussion further to see how we can further support the baby,” he said.

On the donation to the expectant mothers, Echefu disclosed that the beneficiaries were drawn from those whose Expected Delivery Dates (EDD) were close.

“From our need assessment, we found out that most of those mothers don’t come to the hospital with anything.

What we have been able to do is to give them what they need immediately when they deliver their babies. We have diapers, methylated spirit, cotton wool and everything for them to start taking care of themselves and their babies. You can see from the faces of the mothers that they are happy about the items in the bags,” he said.

The head of the welfare department of the hospital, Mr. Olalekan Okubajo thanked the club for its philanthropic gestures.

“We are used to the Rotary Club of Festac Town coming around to do one or two social services in the hospital. It is a great thing. We want to appreciate them. God will continue to provide for them. We usually have pregnant mothers that don’t have money to buy ordinary tissue paper, not to talk of delivery kits. So, it will go a long way for them,” Okubajo said..