Siju Iluyomade’s Unusual Birthday Celebrations
In a few days, Siju Iluyomade, the convener of Arise Women, a charity organization that has been adding to human capacity building and empowerment in the country, will hit a new age.
The delectable woman of influence and character, who would be 56 on January 8, 2020, has over the years become a rallying point, adding value to the womenfolk in particular in the country.
Although Siju, as she is fondly called, will not be throwing a big party. She will be using the occasion to make plans to up the empowerment activities of the nongovernmental organization in a bid to reach out to more people in the year 2020.
This is because the Arise team, having had a successful human capital development and empowerment programme for over 10,000 less privileged in the society, mainly women in 2019, has seen the huge level of lack of social amenities in the country.
Therefore, the foundation championed by the energetic lawyer of decades is already planning big for the year 2020 that will see Arise Women increase its humanitarian and charity activities not only within Lagos and Abuja, but also in many parts of the North.
According to this fashion-conscious but open-hearted philanthropist, “all the achievements recorded by Arise Women in 2019 will be dwarfed by 2020 by God’s grace”. She said not less than 30,000 individuals, mostly women within Lagos, Abuja, Akwa-Ibom, Kebbi, and many other states will benefit from the 12th edition of Arise Women empowerment activities.
It will be recalled that after successfully organizing a lot of activities in 2019 which included Arise Vocational & Skills Acquisition programme in Lagos, Arise Health Walk and Arise Women Conference, the team moved to Abuja where the two adopted villages, Dafara and Kabusa, benefited immensely from the foundation’s gestures.
Among other things in Abuja, the NGO commissioned new boreholes for the communities and enlisted hundreds of women into Arise Women Farmers’ Foundation while it also distributed over 10,000 different items, including bags of rice, school bags, soaps, buckets and back-to-school items for the kids.