It was a glorious moment as over two hundred and fifty persons in Anambra including the Aged and the less privileged recently had their spirits lifted when succour came their way from the Amazing Grace Foundation.
The largese came at Obeledu
in Anaocha Council Area, country home of the Founder of the Foundation, Chief
Mrs Ifeyinwa Obegolu where a Special Easter Ministration was held for the people.
Among items distributed
to the beneficiaries were Wheel chairs, textile materials, drugs, food items,
mosquito nets, toiletries among others.
The Amazing Grace
Foundation which has branches all over the country, caters for the elderly,
widows and victims of family violence with a Law Firm that takes up Probo no,
cases of all manner of abuse of the rights of the elderly.
Presenting the items,
the Founder of the Foundation and immediate past Chairperson of the Nigeria
Census Tribunal, Chief Mrs Obegolu said the exercise is a ministry from
God that started when she was young through which she aims to create awareness
on the plights of the elderly and providing succour to them with a view to
getting the society to cater for them.
Dr Obegolu who described
the aged as special products of God's grace, reminded them that having reached
the age of 70, God has given them the opportunity to make their way right with
him by shunning evil and assuming the status of beacons of truth so that they
can inherit the kingdom of heaven.
She appealed to
government at all levels to create welfare schemes for the elderly to ensure
that their old age is spent in happiness.
The Anambra State
President, National Council of Women Societies, Mrs Oby Obodozie who also
graced the occasion, said by the gesture, the benefactor is exemplifying
true Christian virtues and putting smiles on the faces of the people and urged
the people irrespective of their status to cultivate the habit of showing love
to one another.
One of the aged persons
who got a wheelchair, Mrs Priscilla Okoye-Ukpo from Umuaneke village, Obeledu
whose joys knew no bounds, thanked Dr Obegolu for her benevolence and prayed
God to reward her immensely.
The elderly persons and
their caregivers were during the ministration which also featured a holy mass,
taken through series of talks on women health and morality by the Assistant
Director in charge of Social Justice Unit of the National Orientation Agency,
Lady Ifeoma Chijioke.
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