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No fewer than 3,000 widows in Oraifite Community, Ekwusigo Local Government Area on Sunday received 6,000 bags of 50kg rice from the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF).
The distribution, inaugurated by Chief Emeka Offor, the founder of the Foundation was done in Oraifite, near Onitsha on Sunday.
Offor said the gesture was the Foundation’s modest contribution towards supporting widows and ensuring that they could share in the joy and spirit of Afiolu Festival.
He said humanitarian intervention was about people, recognising their vulnerability, responding where necessary and restoring dignity and hope to those who needed it.
“Afiolu is more than a festival. It is a celebration of our heritage, culture and the bonds that unite us as a people.
“I call on all the women here to continue to pray for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that God should give him victory and use him to make Nigeria better.
“May God continue to bless our people, our communities, Anambra State, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation to touch more lives,” he said.
In his speech, Chief Tony Obi, Coordinator of the Foundation, said the rice distribution was a quarterly programme where every widow in the community received a bag of rice each.
Obi said the Easter edition did not hold and to make up for that, each of the 3,000 beneficiaries would go home with two 50kg bags of rice.
He urged the widows and people of the community to continue to pray for Offor while assuring that the Foundation would continue to the needs of the poor through his assistance.
Also speaking, Chief Vin Dike, the President General of Oraifite Community said Offor had used his God given wealth to uplift lives and develop communities.
Dike said Offor had intervened in the development of Oraifite in the area of road infrastructure and scholarship, housing, healthcare and medical assistance as well as general welfare of Oraifite.
Mrs Ogechi Izuka, Coordinator of the Women who spoke on their behalf, appreciated Offor for his philanthropy and for being a strong pillar for them over the years.
She said they received clothing, free healthcare and free houses under the Touch a Life Scheme.
In her remark, Mrs Esther Onyekesi, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, appreciated Offor for the act of charity adding that such initiatives had a way of reducing the burden of windows.(NAN)
