Group Celebrates Valentine With Abandoned Children

THE President of Senior Staff Association of Communications Transport and Corporation (SSACTAC), Voice of Nigeria (VON) Branch, Lagos, Abiodun Bonuola-Ozurumba has commended the founder and director of Hearts of Gold Children’s Hospice, Surulere, Mrs. Laja Adedoyin for a job well done.

  Adedoyin who received the members of the SSACTAC during the visit Friday in commemoration of St. Valentine’s Day reiterated that such kind gestures have been helping the home cater for the less privileged children.

 Speaking during the visit, Bonuola-Ozurumba said: “Bravo to that woman with a heart of gold. Because she is a woman like me and she is doing wonderfully well. I commend her. She is fantastic. I pray that God should give her more strength and guidance.

  “We have here 60 children being managed by a woman like myself. Sincerely, it is really a heart of gold. 

  “The children need our help. It is time we reach out and share our love with the less privileged ones.” 

  She urged other well-meaning Nigerians to visit such places to help the less privileged.

  “I think people should visit this place regularly. It is so important that people reach out to all the people other than members of their immediate family.” 

  Adedoyin explained the process through which she children were brought to the orphanage.

  “My children are from different parts of the country and they come through state governments. There is a thorough check to ascertain that they were not abandoned and picked from the streets.” 

  “I have 63 of them here who are being taken care of under my watch. For succession, if eventually I die, the Catholic Church will take over from where I stopped,” she said.