A Non-Governmental Organization, Voice of the People (VOP) Kwara State, has supported school children with school fees, physically challeged and widows with cash gifts.
Speaking during the presentation of cash gifts to receipients at Ipata LGEA School A (Ilorin East LGA); Community Secondary school Ogele (Asa LGA) and Government High School (Junior Section) Adeta ( Ilorin East LGA), the Chairman of (VOP) Kwara State Alhaji Oniye Sofiu said the gesture, supported by the organisation’s Life Patron, Alh. Yinka AbdulAzeez Oniyangi was part of the organisation’s move to help the needy.
Alhaji Oniye stated that the move is also to assist physically challenged and widows in about seven Local Government areas in Kwara to sustain their source of livelihood.
“Aside the payment of school fees, we are also distributing writing materials and exercise books to further encourage their studies” he added.
The Vice Chairman of VOP Kwara, Mr AbdulFatai Ibrahim who expressed concern on the rate of poverty among Nigerian women advised government at all levels to redouble their efforts on programmes that would improve the wellbeing of women and children in the country.
The General- Secretary of the association Engr Taofeeq Lawal noted that the NGO has no political affiliation however will be glad to receive support from the Kwara State Government under the leadership of Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman and other well meaning philanthropists so the kind gesture can continue and be extended to other local government areas.
Also speaking, Hajia Mutiat AbdulRazaq, the Welfare Coordinator emphasised that when a woman is empowered, you have automatically empowered the society and that’s why VOP deemed it fit to extend the support to widows.
Some of the students who could not hide their gratitude thanked Voice of the People for the financial support and donation of stationaries.
In their separate remarks, the Headmaster of Ipata LGEA School, Dr Hassan Mohammed Kanike, the Principal of Community Secondary School, Prince Sulaimon Olanrewaju and Alh. Salemaan Iyabode Ajoke, the Principal of Government High School commended VOP Kwara for the gesture which they noted would go a long way to assist the recipients in their education.
Also expressing gratitude on behalf of the widows and physically challenged, Mrs Esther Kolawole from Oyun LGA Mr Richard Emmanuel from Ifelodun LGA appreciated the kind gesture of the VOP Kwara and appealed to them to sustain it.
