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
about half a million 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 reaches out to people by showing love to the vulnerable in the society.
Ige said that the association thought of spreading its helping hands to the NGO to celebrate with them and for the love of the season as well.
“One of the Cardinal areas of focus of this 2023 -2025 Biennium is to reach out to the physically challenged
“We thought that this is the best way to start the major assignment ahead of us having been sworn in into the office on November 23rd, 2023″.
“Food is essentially a necessity of Life and children are a huge task in a home in terms of care not to talk of those with virtual disabilities,” Ige said.
Responding, Mrs Chioma Ohakwe, founder of Bethesda Home for the Blind expressed her sincere appreciation and gratitude to MWAN.
Ohakwe said that these days were not easy to feed not to talk of remembering others.
She said MWAN has shown the spirit of motherhood in them as they decided to bless the less privileged.
Mr Hammed Kareem, one of the teachers 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 spoke on behalf of his colleagues to appreciate the wonderful gesture.
