Engineers donate to SOS Children Village

MAKING a step further from affecting the lives of citizens through technology and infrastructural development, the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Apapa branch, has gone beyond the norm by affecting the lives of the less privileged in the society.

This was evidenced recently when they visited SOS Children Village, Isolo, and donated food stuffs and toiletries to the home otherwise known as Family Based Care Programme.

Speaking at the event, the Chairman, NSE, Apapa branch, Engr. Ola Taiwo, who referred to the act as a “community engineering” said they as engineers don’t believe that their role is simply to sit in offices or operate in project sites, but also to reach out to those that need their attention materially in the society.

He added further that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is also in line with the mandate of the present leadership of the society given by Engr. Ademola Isaac Olorunfemi to all engineers in the country to reach out and impact positively on the community they operate in their various little ways, not just by their projects, but also by their material wherewithal.

Meanwhile, Taiwo disclosed that the society envisages making the project bigger in the future to cater not only the less privileged in the society, but also the gifted children in schools and award them scholarships.

He then called on other professionals to also key in to this humanitarian services, focusing more on the doctors. “Instead of going on strike,” he said, “you can always give back and say, yes, we are supposed to go on strike, but because we want to save lives, let us continue with our services.”

The Store Controller, Central Store of the Village, Agbaegbu Chuks thanked the society for their kind gesture while also urging for more assistance from the general public to be able to continue offering quality family services to the children