Caring sisters set to create a more sane society through charity

Committed to creating a more sane society, where everyone will walk around the streets freely across the country has prompted the Caring Sisters Ministry Incorporated (CSI), a non-governmental to embark on a charity project as part of it 15-year anniversary celebration.

The group, comprising of young female professionals with same passion and common goal of impacting the lives of the fatherless and motherless, widows, orphans, destitute, and physically challenged in their immediate locations, believed that if the underprivileged are given opportunity to live a meaningful life, crimes would drastically reduce in the society.

The event, flagged-off with a N50 million fundraising for the construction of its CSI Shelter for the underprivileged persons in the society at Shimawa community, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State.

According to the President of the group, Abiola Laseinde, the underprivileged persons are extremely neglected in the country. She feared that if the trend continues, criminalities and wrongdoings would multiply in the society.

She said, “It is our conviction that we can all work together in this country to make our world a better place; completely free or reducing to the barest minimum, the homeless children and women roaming our streets. This is what has birthed the vision to have the Caring Sisters Shelter at Shimawa.

“We believe we can contribute significantly to ridding our society of viciousness by helping the homeless and less-privileged boys and girls, who if we do not act now, may unfortunately turnout to be the armed robbers, kidnappers, prostitutes and militants of tomorrow,” she added.

She continued, “It has been a worthwhile journey from a humble beginning, yet so purposeful. We started with our little stipends earned from our NYSC days exactly 15 years ago, with a passion to put a smile on the faces of those in need. This great vision started with our Founding President, my sister and friend, Omotunde Adebowale-Davids, otherwise called ‘Lolo 1 of Wazobia FM.

Motunde called about seven of us and shared the vision that birthed this ‘Community of Jesus Girls.’ Over the last 15 years, we have grown in love, friendship and collectively developed an inexplicable thirst for caring, giving and nurturing, as we have touched many lives and has tirelessly made huge impacts in our society.”

Laseinde further explained that the group have visited over 50 orphanage homes sheltering the less privileged including, Old People’s Homes, Remand Homes, Hospices, Special Homes for the physically challenged.

“God have used us to provide food, medicines, medical care, toiletries, clothing, counselling, prayers, financial empowerment and other life-changing services in the society. We give to the poor not because we have in abundance but because we have come to realise that is the best way to create a healthy society,” she stated.

Lending her voice, Matron of CSI, Mrs. Oluwafunmilayo Roberts, encouraged guests at the event and other well-meaning members of the society to think beyond cash donations but look at other areas like building materials such as bags of cement, blocks, wood, granite, trucks of sand and other materials for the construction of the shelter, stressing that the building when completed would be of great benefit to the society.