NGO feeds 2,000 disabled Muslims

A faith-based NGO, The Counseling Ambassador Organization, TCAO has fed over 2,000 Muslims living with disabilities at the Destitute Home at Oko Baba, Ebute Metta area of Lagos State.

The President of the NGO, Pastor Regina Obasa, said the gesture was borne out of the need to assist the less privileged, especially when they were fasting and to cushion the effect of poverty in the land.

Obasa appealed to other well meaning Nigerians and Corporate Organizations, to complement government’s effort and give back to the society especially to the physically challenged persons.

Appreciating the gesture, the Community Secretary of lepers in the relief camp, Alhaji Mohammed Buba who said he has been living in the camp for twenty five years, called on others to emulate The Counseling Ambassadors Organization in the areas of educating their children who are not physically challenged like them and also in evacuating the piles of refuse in the camp to prevent an epidemic

The Okobaba relief camp at Ebute Metta serves as homes to both male and female adults who are leprous, blind, deaf and dumb and their children who are about 2,570.

Meanwhile, a cheque of N250,000 has been handed over to the mother of an eleven-year-old girl diagnose of growth hormone deficiency by the Counseling Ambassadors organisation, TCAO, as part of activities to mark the 11th anniversary of its annual praise and worship concert, known as “Berachah”.

The mother of the girl, Mrs Victoria Oyegbile explained that since 2016, TCAO had been providing the financial wherewithal to cater for her child who could not walk then.

Recounting her ordeals before she got assistance from the organisation, Mrs Oyegbile said her 11-year old who looks like a three years child could not walk prior to 2016, when TCAO financed the operation needed to correct her stunted growth.

Over 500 widows, children and other less privileged persons at the event were also empowered with cash gifts, food items, vocational equipment among others.

Some of the beneficiaries applauded the founder of the NGO and want more philanthropists to empower more people to reduce crime in the society.

The NGO also donated food, toiletries and bottled water to inmates in the cells at the State Criminal Investigation Department at Panti street, Yaba.