DOAM Foundation holds 12th Charity Golf Tournament, set to sustain standards

The Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) Foundation’s yearly Charity Golf Tournament will be marking its 12th edition on January 28, 2023 and, preparations are ongoing towards sustaining the high standards for which the tournament is known.

The foundation’s Board of Trustees Chairman, Professor Obinna Chukwu, said the tournament would provide another platform to showcase activities and programmes implemented in the past year, as well as highlight the foundation’s sustainable and judicious use of funds it generates.

He said: “The tournament will also provide another opportunity for more corporate entities and kind individuals to partner with the cause and enhance positive impact on disadvantaged communities and lives in our society.

“We are very glad that the event has proven to be a trusted platform through which a lot of these organisations and individuals want to intervene positively in the society.’’

For more than 15 years, the foundation has been on a journey to touch lives, through addressing some of the challenges faced by the less privileged.

Children and youths in neglected communities across the country have been the main targets and beneficiaries. In response to the foundation’s call for support, corporate and generous individual partners have joined hands to enable its intervention programmes in the areas of free healthcare, accident/emergency and educational scholarship.

These programmes continue to positively impact a number of neglected communities.

In addition, the foundation, in 2022, organised vacation counseling programme to help school-aged children succeed in academics and family life, mentorship programmes, including an inter-school debate, awareness programme on sexual abuse and the dangers of illicit drug usage, and free medical outreaches for indigenes at Mushin, Lagos State, Inyishi and Amaimo communities in Imo State.

Other activities carried out during the period include, donations of food, relief and welfare materials to orphaned and abandoned children, de-worming and vitamin supplements for children within several public primary schools, and other healthy living programmes. Over 90,000 lives have been touched.

These achievements would not have been possible without the love and support shown to the foundation by corporate organisations and kind individuals during the yearly Charity Golf Tournament. The Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938, in Lagos, has also been very supportive and continues to ally with the Foundation in deploying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) events.