Yuletide: MWAN Lagos donates Food items to NGO
Yuletide: MWAN Lagos donates Food items to NGO
By Prince Benson Davies
The Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria, (MWAN) Lagos Branch has donated food items like bags of rice, groundnut oil, beverages, toiletries and noodles among others worth N400,000 to Bethesda Home for the Blind, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Lagos on Saturday.
Speaking on the donation, Dr Funmi Ige, Lagos MWAN, President said that the association deemed it fit to reach out as they are an association that reached out to people by showing love to the vulnerable in the society.
Ige said that the association taught of spreading its helping hands to the NGO in other to celebrate with them and for the love of season as well.
“One of the Cardinal areas of focus of these 2023 -2025 biannual is to reach out to the physically challenge.
“We taught that this is the first way to start off the major assignment ahead of us having been sworn-in into office on November,23rd 2023.
“Basically, food is essentially basic necessities of Life and children are huge task in home in terms of care not to talk of those with virtual disabilities” Ige said.
Responding, Mrs Chioma Ohakwe, founder, Bethesda Home for the Blind expressed her sincere appreciation and gratitude to MWAN.
Ohakwe said that these days was not easy to feed not to talk of remembering others.
She said MWAN has showed the spirit of motherhood in them as they decided to bless the less privileged.
Mr Hammed Kareem, One of the teacher and a University Graduate from the home thanked the Association in a time like this.
Kareem said it was a thing of joy as he speaks on behalf of his colleagues to appreciate the wonderful gesture.
