27th May, 2017
The Association of Heads of Federal Establishments in Enugu State on Saturday donated food items to the Guardian Angels Motherless Babies Home, Enugu, to mark the 2017 Children’s Day.
The association led by its 2nd Vice Chairperson, Mrs Ifeoma Ijetta, donated cartons of noodles, rolls of pampers, and cartons of biscuits.
The other items were cartons of Capri-sonne, rolls of toilet tissues, cheese balls, foot-wears, clothes and bed covers.
Ijetta said that the gesture was part of the association’s efforts to encourage administrators of such homes, who took pains to bring succour as well as provide shelter to such children.
She said that members of the association could not have chosen a better place to mark the day than the less privileged home.
“Once or twice in a year we go out there to visit the less privileged like motherless babies home, old people’s home or the prisons.
“We deemed it fit to come here, associate with them and make their day memorable because today is children’s day,” she said.
Ijetta said that it was imperative that good-spirited individuals once in a while visited and interacted with both the managers of such homes and the children in order to encourage them.
Responding, the Matron of the home, Sister Agnes Ibewuike, expressed her joy over the gesture, adding that they had been surviving on the goodwill of members of the public.
She said that the home had about 40 children and that it had not been very easy meeting their demands.
“People have been so generous to us and we do not lack food.
“However, we do not have recreational facilities for the children to play at a time they are supposed to play,” she said.
Ibewuike said that the greatest challenge facing them was the case of a one-year-old child whose brain malfunctioned.
“We have a child with serious medical issue and we require N102,000 to begin the initial treatment.
“We have taken her to the hospital and they said we must deposit the amount before they can start the treatment, but we do not have such money.
“The baby was brought to us from one of the adoration centres in Enugu,” Ibewuike said.