A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Timilehin Leukemia Foundation, has fed many street children and adults in the Iyana-Ipaja axis of Lagos State as part of efforts to put smiles on the faces of people especially the less privileged.
Members of the Organisation amid music and fun, celebrated with children and residents through their programme tagged ‘Christmas on the Street’.
Its Founder, Modupeoluwa Bamidele, charged everyone to make every day Christmas by always giving out to the needy and less privileged.
“Today is a remarkable day for me. It’s the day I lost my only child to leukemia. Today makes it nine years that I’ve lost him.”
“So the NGO is registered in the loving memory of my child to touch the life of people on the streets and people in the hospital.”
“Christmas is a day to touch lives, to give back. It’s a day to show love, to share love with people. And I want us not ever to be doing this on a Christmas day alone”. she noted.
Bamidele also urged parents not to relent in the discharge of their duties to their children despite the economic downturn.
“If we are not caring for them or having feelings for our children, how will they be tomorrow’s future? We don’t need to scare them away. We want to draw our children close to us so that is what brought us here today to feed people and to give some items out to the children”.
She called on government at all levels to provide quality and affordable healthcare services, education, and shelter for the citizenry.
“As I’m talking to you today, I’m in partnership with the Lagos State Ministry of Health. I still want them to do more in the sense that let’s have more healthcare facilities. I know we have a large number of them in Lagos.
If people are on the street, they cannot eat. Let’s go back to feeding our children in school. A well-fed child would love to go to school.” she added.