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Group celebrates Easter with physically-challenged

By Isaac taiwo
08 April 2015   |   11:42 pm
WHILE others chose the bar beach, game villages and other lively places for their Easter Monday picnic, the Association of Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation Ladies (RAOPIC) felt that the best place to spend theirs was to associate with the less privileged at Lady Atinuke Memorial Home, Badagry with a view to putting smiles on their faces and making them know that they actually belong to the society.

group celebrate easterWHILE others chose the bar beach, game villages and other lively places for their Easter Monday picnic, the Association of Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation Ladies (RAOPIC) felt that the best place to spend theirs was to associate with the less privileged at Lady Atinuke Memorial Home, Badagry with a view to putting smiles on their faces and making them know that they actually belong to the society.

Leading the team to the home on behalf of the President, Princess Fine Hassan, the Vice President, Mrs. Serifat Olubunmi Kuti hinged the reason for the visit on the fact that women in particular understand the feeling when children lack parental care.

“Under normal circumstances, everybody is supposed to support Orphanage homes as the essence is to touch humanity.”

“As a matter of fact, we were once at the Lady Atinuke Memorial Home, we saw the state of the children and we discovered that the home needs help. This is the reason why we decided to come and spend our Easter Monday with them with food and gift items like special chairs that would correct the spinal cord of those that cannot sit down properly, bags of rice, groundnut oil, cartons of Indomie, diapers, dresses, Izal, toilet rolls among others.”

“We are very happy we could do this as it is our joy to put smiles on the faces of these children as much as we could as mothers and we seize this opportunity to call on Nigerians to also choose to visit places like this so that these type of children will feel that they also belong to the society.

“We learnt that Lagos State Government has been rendering support to the Home but we are still pleading with them to do more” she said.

Lady Atinuke, in response to the magnanimity of the RAPOPIC ladies’ comments and visit, described them as sincere and true mothers who have feelings for children.
“They are sincere mothers and Nigerians and we are grateful for their generosity.’

“It is difficult to see people that will choose to come and spend the time meant for merriment with children like this and it goes a long way to seeing that they are truly mothers and God will bless them for coming here to lift up the hearts of these children.”

“This is an approved home that is being operated according to the law and we depend on assistance and generosity of Nigerians.”

“We have 26 abandoned children and through the help of God and kind Nigerians, we have been managing the home and taking care of them while we still look forward to assistance from kind Nigerians as our needs are many to give comfort to these children,” she said.

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