The Liberty, intelligence, Our Nation’s Safety( LIONS) club has donated items to private school for the physically challenged in Ilorin known as Oju Oluwa To More Schools with and special needs,to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking during the presentation of the food items, stationery, detergents and others the President Ilorin Royal Lions club Dr Ogedengbe Temitayo said ” Ilorin LIONS club was a branch of international association of lions club whse major aim was to help the less privileged in the society.
“What we do is to see how we can render help to people who are underprivileged or people who are challenged in one way or the other.
“As an activity for our month of July, we choose to visit To Mo re schools of physically challenged with the aim of contributing our quota to assist the school management in ensuring that we donate food items, detergents, stationeries to the school management.
“This is to cushion the effect of the pandemic at the same time assist them in catering for the physically challenged students in the school system.
“We came with 25 kg bags of rice, 25 kg bags of garri, two cartoons of indomie, 5kg of liquid detergents, we have eggs, groundnut oil, biscuits for the kids, if we do estimate in terms of naira, we will be looking at about N50,000.
“We believe that it is a great work Rev Sam Ajayi is doing here, we want to encourage the management to continue to do well.
“We want to encourage them to continue to help these children and to continue the good work they are doing, we know that it is a sacrifice that nobody can pay them for except God,
“We trust that God will come to their aid and send more help to them and as a club too, we intend to continue to come, visit and donate the capacity we can.
“I will like to advise the government to look into helping the less privileged like this, they could support the school,
“We have heard at length,the director talking about the various needs of the school, he mentioned he fact that if they could at least help in sending teachers who they will cater for their salaries to the school that will be sufficient for them.
“If the government can at least do that for them, I’m sure that the school will do well and will be able to progress from there.” he said.
Responding,the Proprietor of the school, Rev. Samuel Abiodun Ajayi, thanked the organisation for the gesture and that the palliatives would be judiciously distributed.
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