18 January 2008
Lagos — In keeping with the tradition of caring for the less privileged in the society during Salah, Christmas and New Year festivities, Nigeria's foremost industrial conglomerate, Dangote Group has donated food items worth millions of naira to a number of orphanage homes across the country.
City of Refuge Orphanage Home Maitama, Abuja Children's Home Karu, Hope for Survival Orphanage as well as Queen's Child Solid Foundation Orphanage, Kubwa were among the beneficiaries in Abuja. In Lagos, orphanage homes visited by the Dangote Group include the SOS Village Isolo, Little Saints Orphanage Ilupeju as well as the Bab Es Salam Home located in the Government Reserved Area (GRA) of Ikeja.
Items donated to the homes include bags of sugar, cartons of spaghetti, cartons of macaroni as well as cartons of dansa fruit juice. Dangote Group Representative, Alhaji Isa Tata Yusuf, who led the delegation to the less privileged homes in the Federal Capital Territory said the items are meant to assist the proprietors of the orphanage homes in catering for the inmates in their respective institutions.
Alhaji Yusuf who described the gesture as part of the corporate social responsibility of the company, explained that Dangote Group was prepared to assist the less privileged in more ways than donating token gifts, as that is one way of giving back to society.
Proprietor of the City of Refuge Orphanage Home, Mrs. Biobele Esther Odesola blamed the incidence of having many orphans and destitute in several cities on poverty, moral decadence and prostitution among teenage girls.
According to Odesola, many unmarried girls who indulge in prostitution have formed the dangerous habit of abandoning their babies soon after birth and dumping them in gutters by the roadside even in Abuja. Most of the inmates at the orphanages, she said, were either picked up on the streets or were brought to the homes by the police.
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