Hope Rising Homes Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated a tricycle popularly called keke maruwa to a father of six, Mr. Peter Emmanuel.
The Nation had reported that the Foundation had donated a two-bedroom, fully furnished accommodation in Ikola Ipaja, area of Lagos State to the family last year, with the headline, ‘Foundation lifts family of eight out of poverty’. The Foundation, for over a year also provided the family with food stuffs and cash every month.
The tricycle was donated by President and Chief Executive Officer of Autobahn Technique Limited, Mr. Alban Okonkwo.
According to the President/Founder of the foundation, Titilayo Abaniwonda-Lawal, represented at the event by the Nigerian representative of the foundation, Mrs Hekmot Alakija, the gesture was in fulfilment of all promises made to the family, including monthly feeding, monthly allowance, children’s education and accommodation.
“Donating this keke maruwa to the father is our way of empowering the family,” she said.
She advised the family not to take the opportunity for granted, but to use it wisely.
“I urge the family to have an account soon and start keeping money there, so that in the next one or two years, they will be empowered to be able to continue with the accommodation we are paying on their behalf.
“At the beginning of the programme, we promised to pay the accommodation for about two or three years and having empowered them, we would stop paying for the rent, so that we can start with other projects. We cannot place our empowerment on only one family; we have to reach out to others. The keke maruwa we have provided for the family is meant to empower the father of the home to take good care of his family.
“Hope Rising Homes Foundation is a home that cares for vulnerable children, the less-privileged people and the motherless children in the society. About a year ago, we began to care for families and it is the Emmanuel’s family that we started with.
“We earlier provided them with a fully furnished accommodation because the family was homeless after their house was demolished by the state government in Elegushi area of the state.
“Even though the Foundation caters for children, the Emmanuel family stood out because we could not help the children without helping the family. After thorough search for accommodation, we were able to get the family a two-bedroom apartment and we fully furnished the house.
“We also got school for the children, who were then school dropouts. They are now schooling at St Andrew’s Primary School in Ipaja and all expenses such as school fees, uniforms, school bags, socks and note books, among others are being paid by the Foundation,” she said.
She added that the Foundation had to empower the father of the home, because the family cannot continue to rely on the foundation every month.
“We asked Mr Emmanuel what he loves to do, he told us he could drive, so we decided to get him keke maruwa and here we are with the presentation today. The Foundation is not about tribe or relations, but we are about helping the less-privileged individuals in the society. With the keke maruwa, he can make income for the family, pay his children’s school fees and their house rent without relying on the Foundation,” she said.
Responding, Mr Emmanuel said the Foundation surprised him and his family with the donation of the keke maruwa, the free fully-furnished accommodation, the children’s schooling, monthly food stuffs and salary, among others.
“What they have done for my family is unbelievable; whoever I tell about what they have done for me would follow me to my house before they believe. I appreciate them for all, more so now that they have empowered me. I can now be a man; work, feed my family and I would not rely on them forever.
“They have sowed a seed into my life and I can never forget their good deeds. God will reward them for what they have done for my family. Since we got to the apartment they gave us four months ago, we do not need to buy water, because the water here is good. The sickness that always troubles my children has been a thing of the past, my children no longer fall sick, we are all looking fresh, good, and healthy.
“They have come to help someone they do not know, they use their sweat to take care of a total stranger like me. I am grateful. I thank Mrs Abaniwonda-Lawal, because she did for me what I am yet to believe. I have no family to recue me from my problems; I thank God for the good works this Foundation has done for me. I should have gone back to the village when I had no accommodation for my family, but they came to my aid. All my children are now going to school,” he said.
His wife, Blessing, described Mrs Alakija and Mrs Abaniwonda-Lawal as angels who are Godsend.
“They came into my life, carried my battle of poverty and now I have overcome poverty. This Foundation took my problems away. God will bless them all.
“My husband, our children and I are now alright since the Foundation came into our lives. We are looking good; we are just getting lighter with our rubbing cream. We are happy, we are enjoying, our lives have changed for good and we are grateful,” she said.
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Source: The Nation
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