Foundation Gives Palliatives, Empowerment Items to Ease Hardships in Abia Communities
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The economic hardships in the country keep biting harder by the day. While the bad condition is pervasive it appears the rural dwellers feel the punch more than those in the cities.
For this reason, city dwellers, who are seen to be well off, are being bombarded with save our soul(S.O.S) messages from rural folks in dire need of assistance to stay afloat.
On August 12, 2023 many people in the four communities that make up Umuchieze clan in Umunneochi Local Government of Abia State heaved sighs of relieve. The Founder/President of Ivyline Care Foundation, Dr Evangeline Ozonyiri brought palliatives to the people of Leru, Lekwesi, Lokpaukwu and Lokpanta.
The distribution of the palliatives and empowerment items took place at the Community Primary School, Leru, during the August meeting of the women.
“I’ve taken it upon myself to reach out to people with what I can afford,” Ozonyiri told journalists during the event.
The philanthropist said that she receives loads of text messages from people asking for help. And she could understand “what it feels like” to be in need of essential things like food., adding that helping people is her own way of “spreading love”.
Ozonyiri said that, over the years, her Foundation, which motto is “touching lives”, has been spreading love in her immediate community, Leru, with palliatives. She usually carried out her kind gestures during occasions like Christmas and Easter, and also during the Covid-19 lock down.
This time around, she decided to extend her good gesture to neighbouring communities hence the inclusion of Lokpaukwu, Lokpanta and Lekwesi among the benefiting communities.
The target beneficiaries were indigent widows, widowers, and other categories of less privileged members of the communities. However, women and youth groups were not left out on this very occasion. They were given building materials in suppport of their community development projects, and also implements for their farming activities.
Jubilation filled the air as the palliatives and empowerment items were distributed to the beneficiaries. In fact the Foundation had tailored the items to meet the immediate and long term needs of the beneficiaries.
There were food stuffs and condiments, sewing machines, grinding machines, stoves, bags of cement, mattresses and pillows, farm tools, buckets and lots of wrappers. Even aerosol insecticides were included to protect the people from mosquitoes.
In their remarks, community leaders profusely thanked Ozonyiri for having a heart of gold to give succour to the rural dwellers.
The President General of Umuchieze, Chief Peter Ogbukwe, an architect, commended the philanthropist for extending her palliatives to the entire Umuchieze clan.
The Financial Secretary of Lokpanta, Hon Aloysius Chiagozie, whose community was included for the palliatives, enthused that he “never knew we have this kind of person in our clan”. He urged Ozonyiri to sustain her efforts in amelioration of hardships among her people.