Balogun urges govt to support suffering Nigerians
The Lions Club International District 404-B4 has pledged to provide food for 15,000 families through its hunger relief project for the Lions Service year.
It also promised to empower the youths and widows through learning and acquiring vocational skills. The club’s pioneer District Governor, Samson Abodunrin, who spoke at a media briefing in Lagos, said necessary tools and equipment would be provided to facilitate the process. He added that startup grants would be given to the trainee graduates after the training.
Abodunrin further disclosed that the empowerment will be implemented through the community and club’s school-based strategy, adding that the district core project this year is to combat hunger and empower the underprivileged.
His words: “We believe that hunger, nutrition and wellness are interrelated. According to experts, nutrition is a critical part of health and development. Better feeding is related to improved infant, child and maternal health, stronger immune systems, and safer pregnancy and childbirth, which lowers the risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
“Experts also availed the fact that children that are well fed are healthier and learn better.”
According to him, people with adequate nutrition are more productive and are better positioned to create opportunities to gradually break the cycles of poverty and hunger.
“Malnutrition in every form presents significant threats to human health. Today, Nigeria like most developing countries is faced with the double burden of malnutrition that includes under-nutrition and starvation,” he said.
He charged other members to double their efforts and work to alleviate the burden of hunger and the resultant effects of malnutrition in communities.
The immediate past governor of the district 404-B1, Kema Ashibuogwu charged members never to relent in giving back to humanity.
Also, the pioneer District Governor, Lions International, District 404 A3, Nigeria, comprising Lagos and Ogun states, Adeniyi Balogun, has urged the government to assist poor Nigerians that are passing through hard times.
He said the club, on its part, would not renege in playing a supportive role by pursuing relentlessly its five major goals of serving over two million vulnerable people in areas like childhood cancer, hunger, diabetes and so on.
Balogun, who spoke during a media briefing, yesterday, in Lagos, to announce the activities of the club for service year 2023/2024, with the theme, “Heart of Service,” said while the five major goals of Lions International would be touched, the club would pay more attention to two major goals that include vision and diabetes.
