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Tildacare Foundation, a not for profit non-governmental organisation will be supporting less privileged children as well as disabled persons, with food items and medical care this yuletide season.
That’s part of its vision to reach out to the well over 1.7 million people living below the poverty line in Nigeria’s biggest commercial city, Lagos.
The event which will be the fourth in a row will see the philanthropic organisation cater for the need of over 2000 underprivileged children that lacks access to good food, shelter and other basic needs of life.
“The motivation for this rose stemmed from seeing the rate of poverty in Lagos and the number of people leaving in adverse poverty,” said Olu-Ajayi Razak, executive director/co-founder, Tildacare foundation. They didn’t choose that life for themselves, rather some were born into it hence, the need to join forces in giving these classes of people a facelift”.
Since 2015 when the initiative was birthed, the foundation has consistently catered for the underprivileged children in Lagos every yuletide with members of the foundation pulling personal resources to organize charity events aimed at creating a wonderful Christmas experience for underprivileged children.
By employing its personal resources the foundation successfully fed 200 400 and 1000 kids during its 2015, 2017 and 2018 outreach respectively. This year, it aims to double the number from its 2018 achievements by seeking partnership from individuals and organisation who wished to support the course with as low as N1000.
“In this edition, we are targeting to put smiles on the faces of over 2,000 underprivileged children in Lagos, this includes providing them with food, clothing, back to school materials for children and primary healthcare,” Razak said.
According to Razak, the foundation hopes to evolve beyond just giving food items to the underprivileged kids to empowering them with training and skill acquisition programs so they could also make something of themselves. “We believe feeding them alone on an annual basis can only make them feel loved and happy but there is the need to further empower them as this would make them less dependent on others for survival,” he said.
With 90percent of the world’s poor coming from the African by 2030 according to the World Bank, Razak noted that the foundation hopes to expand to other parts of the country as well as the continent.
“Our experience thus far has revealed that the foundation still has a long way to go because for every individual reached, there are over 50 individuals still in need hence, we intend to extend our reach to unprivileged kids in other states in Nigeria and hopefully other countries in the world”.
