Ambode Urged Limbless Children to See Beyond the Challenge

Wife of the Lagos State governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, has urged children without limbs and other physically challenged persons to see life beyond the setback. She said this at the Stanbic IBTC grounds, Victoria lsland, while presenting cheques of N1.5million each to five pupils of different nursery, primary and secondary schools, as part of the company’s “Out for a Limb” corporate social project, to fix the limbs of some children amputees and those with congenital limb defects.

Bolanle, who noted that the population of limbless persons in the country was increasing because of the insurgency ravaging the North-east, stressed that children and others in that condition could still excel in life with determination and the right attitude to life.

According to her, “the situation that these young ones have found themselves, largely for no faults of theirs, is both pathetic and heart-breaking. While their situation may be considered pitiable and a set-back, it is certainly not the end of the world. “Examples abound in countries around the world where persons with challenges like this and others, came out as world number one materials, where people with limbs could not excel,” she noted.

She commended Stanbic IBTC group and lrede foundation for their diligence in the execution of corporate social investment projects. Speaking earlier, the Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Mrs. Shola David-Borha, noted that the group’s corporate social investment considerations had always revolved around health, education and economic empowerment, but had decided to narrow it to a new sensitive area, relatively untouched by such social investments.

She disclosed that the group was touched by the plight of those limbless children and the attendant academic drawbacks, hence the partnership with lrede Foundation, for the maiden event to fix their limbs, and support the continuity of their education.