By Motolani AbdulGafar
The Year 2000 set of Ejigbo High School alumni (EHS 2000) has donated food items and cash in support of the 15 years old Compassionate Orphanage Home, located at Isheri-Idimu LCDA.
While presenting the gifts to the Home during the weekend, the President of the group, Mr Adeniyi Adepegba said they decided to make the donations to the orphans to show them love and passionately contribute to their well being.
He assured the Project Manager of the Home, Miss Patricia Aselemi that the group would make regular visits while promising to assist the graduate ones among the orphans to secure job in the economic sector, adding that the group would support financially those who prefer to be entrepreneurs among them.
Appreciating the gesture by the group, Aselemi said their efforts would be a great relief for the Home to settle some of its financial challenges.
She explained that one of the greatest challenges faced by the Home is inability to employ workers, who would treat the children like their own, stating that the Home working in line with the guidelines by the Lagos State Government takes extra precaution in employing workers.
Explaining the criteria for admitting a child in the Home, Aselemi said the Home reports cases of found abandoned children at the police station and get adequate documentation of the children with the Lagos State Government before registering them in any orphanage home.
She commended the Lagos state government for always contributing towards the development of orphanage homes in the state.
While encouraging the government to do more, she appealed to individual philanthropists in the society to also render support for the living of the orphans.
