Nigerians Urged To Channel Resources To Assist The Aged
From Abraham Akpabio (LAGOS)
Page: 14
Date: Monday 5th January 2016
A clarion call has gone to wealthy Nigerians, corporate organizations and philanthropic institutions to channel their God-given resources to assist the aged people in the society.
President, Better Life Initiative for the Aged, a non-governmental organization (NGO), Lion Imeh Inyang, made the call while addressing newsmen in Lagos recently in preparation for her group’s annual Old People Day celebration billed to hold in the last week of December in Akwa Ibom State.
She said this year’s celebration will be marked in grand style as the number of old people increases with funs and excitement.
Inyang, while congratulating the Akwa Ibom First Lady, Mrs. Martha Udom Emmanuel, on her pet project, Family Empowerment and Youth Orientation Programme (FEYReP) for sustaining the tempo in the last one year, urged wealthy individuals in the country to take a clue and learn how to touch lives of the needy in the society.
“Better Life initiative for the Aged is concerned about the well-being of the old people in our society and this period of the year is when we go out there to express our concern to the aged.
“Our first center point is Akwa Ibom. We have been doing it and we are going to do it again. We want the well-to-do individuals, corporate organization to key into this project and also learn from what our First Lady in the state is doing through her pet project, FEYReP.
“We will be in Akwa Ibom by the end of December to Celebrate the Christmas with the old people in the society to show them we care and value them,” Inyang said. The Better Life Initiative for the Aged boss used the Form to also congratulate the speaker, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr. Onofiok Luke, for his concern in touching lives of the people in the state in various ways, adding that the people’s speaker has been a source of encouragement to her group.
Meanwhile, in a statement jointly signed by the welfare officer and public relations officer of the group, Mrs. Ofonmbuk Ekanem and Regina Clement respectively, the group said about 300 aged people will benefit from this year’s celebration and would start from Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District of the state with the support of the senator representing the senatorial district who is also the Senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, adding that all the 31 local government Area co-ordinators have been mandated to present names of the intended of the group for immediate assessment and approval.