Mrs Bolanle Ambode, the wife of the Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has distributed various gift items to more than 500 children at Massey Children’s Hospital, Lagos and Sought After Children’s Orphanage Home, Langbasa Ajah, in a project tagged: ‘Love at Christmas’ in Lagos.
The humanitarian gesture which was carried out under the aegis of “Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative (HOFOWEM), saw Mrs Ambode distributing gift items to children aged between one month and 15 years age.
In a statement signed by her media aide, Mrs Folasade Kadiri, the governor’s wife was quoted as saying she “intended to put smiles on the faces of children and integrate them into the celebration of Christmas.”
According to her, Christmas was a period to spread love and generate happiness for persons, especially children and less-privileged people, who need assistance to meet some of their needs.
“What Christmas requires of all of us, is to show love and spread happiness among everyone including children. They are young persons, they need our care and special expression of love to partake in the celebrations. Christmas celebrations are not complete when we have not touched these children tenderly. As it were, this is just a token of love for the children from the foundation,” Mrs Ambode said in the statement.
She further noted that the cardinal philosophy of her foundation was to affect the lives of less-privileged persons, through interventions that bring radical improvement for them.
She said, “What is uppermost on our minds in HOFOWEM, is to uplift the lives of children, women, widows, aged women and challenged youths among others, to ensure happiness and quality life for them”.
She recalled that HOFOWEM had organized various programmes in the past, with the sole objective of putting smiles on the faces of that category of persons, promising that the Foundation would unfold more children and women-friendly programmes in the coming year.
The Commissioner for health, Dr. Jide Idris, represented by Dr. Funmilayo Shokunbi, expressed appreciation to the governor’s wife and the foundation, stressing that, the gesture would go a long way in putting smiles on the faces of the children.
