Christmas Cheer 2015

Happy new month to you all!!!

We do hope the first hurdle of the year was a success for everyone. If you didn’t accomplish most of your tasks, don’t miss a heartbeat over it, there’s plenty of time to dive into that assignment and get it done. Just do not be lazy about it.

 

On the 28th of December 2015, the Foundation carried out its Annual Christmas Cheer Outreach. As we all know that it was a season of joy and sharing, we played our part in giving out hampers to less privileged families that could not afford the joys of the season.

Each hamper contained a bag of rice, tubers of yam, oil, tomato puree, pasta, soda drinks, toilet paper, beverage, noodles, detergent and Ankara material. Shoes and clothes were also distributed according to sizes.

 

Fifty families were catered for that day. We appreciate all our Sponsors, Volunteers and friends who came out to help that day. God bless you all.

See the testimonial pictures.

Giving out…

Hello people, Please pardon our absence, it’s been crazy busy around here with lots of shuffling and readjustment but we promise to try and publish posts as regularly as we can… So, earlier this week, on behalf of the Foundation, Olayinka Odumosu gave out food items to some aged folks in a home.  We encourage you to create the habit of giving in your community.  It could range from clothing items to footwear to foodstuff, allow them to benefit from your resources… Giving never had its disadvantage, it always brings joy not to just receiver but the giver as well… Please share and subscribe… Thank you…

Why Social Work?

Today, we’re bringing you something fresh from GENO’s Project Coordinator, Olayinka Odumosu, who is also a blogger. Be sure to check out her blog at http://ollaflaky.wordpress.com for innovative, inspiring write-ups.

Enjoy…

So “why is social work important?”

This ties into why I chose the profession. I believe we do need Social Workers as the world, the systems and people in it do not support or protect everyone.

I know there are restrictions, limitations, politics and a lot of cynicism. There are going to be times when we have to exercise our power for the lesser of two evils, which is a hurdle we will all deal with when we come to it.

But to me, Social Work is the profession that allows you to fight for people’s rights, protect the vulnerable, support those who need support. It allows you to have a positive impact on others, if they so choose.

It allows you as a practitioner to work with a varied and diverse group of people, to learn and experience a multifaceted life that is consistently dynamic and evolving. It allows you to try and tackle the wicked issues, to help empower others to solve their own problems, to make a difference (hopefully for the better) to individuals lives.

It teaches you continuously about all the different aspects of humanity and allows you to learn a lot about yourself. Social Work allows you to work on varying levels of the society, to have a hand in changing it and to push forward to a fairer, more equal and just society.

Being a Social worker could literally mean the difference between life and death for one person and to me that says it all, therefore makes it worth having, worth continually learning and training for, worth making it a true profession and worth fighting for and continually developing it.

That is why I choose to be part of it and value it. That is why I look forward to the coming years and being involved in it. That is why I am proud to call myself a Social Worker (in training- I NEVER KNOW IT ALL!).
I keep Learning Every day!

Have a Fantastic weekend ahead… Be sure to intervene positively in the life of someone… Please use the share buttons below and also subscribe to get mail notifications… Thanks.

Nun “Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe” wows room full of VIPs with her speech.

 

Culled from TIME…

TIME 100 honoree Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe teaches abused “lost girls” to work through their pain and live with dignity.

 

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe of St. Monica’s Girls Tailoring School in northern Uganda has a simple mission. She takes in girls who were captured by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and gives them the skills—and the hope—to keep living. Many of the girls have children born to the men who were their captors and many of them are deeply troubled by what they had to do while in the LRA. When they return to their communities with their children, they are shunned.

 

Sister Rosemary has built a school for these young women, where they learn to sew and cook and love their kids. There’s also a childcare center and a school for the children. Some of the children are actually the children of Joseph Kony, so Sister Rosemary has made sure that local kids also come to the school, so that all the children from the area grow up together and are integrated.

 

To fund all this Sister Rosemary gets the girls to make bags out of pop tabs, which she sells all over the world. Because of the thousands of otherwise forgotten girls she has helped, she was named to this year’s TIME 100 and it is at the gala that she made this amazing speech. Afterward, her table was flocked by dignitaries and celebrities wanting to meet her, including David Koch, Amy Adams and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrandu.

 

Sister Rosemary is also the subject of a new documentary and a book, Sewing Hope.

It is refreshing to come across news like this especially when it is so close to the objectives of your own cause. This gives us hope that we can do it, together.

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Bad news, becoming a daily headline???

Good day everyone, Its the middle of the week and I’m sure you’ve fulfilled some plans on your to-do list… Here is something to give an opinion to….Don’t forget to share using the buttons below, thanks…

 

We’ve all had our ears and eyes full as regards the recent bomb blast in Nyanya Motor Park, Abuja, a satellite settlement bordering the FCT and Nasarawa State. This bomb blast resulted in multiple accidents, deaths and injuries as drivers lost control of their vehicles and others tried to flee the area.

Affected buildings in the Nyanya bomb blast

 

 

 

 

The gory pictures were displayed in many newspapers. For those who came across them, it was enough to question the state of war in the country to warrant such dastardly acts.

Aerial view of the Nyanya Motor Park

Personally, it just shows disregard for human lives. No one knows where the next one explodes so everyone feels unsafe.

 

 

 

President Goodluck Jonathan with one of the victims at the Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja.

The Federal Government has invested a lot in fighting terrorism. The Deputy Director, Public Realtions of the Department of State Security(DSS), Marilyn Ogar, announced that the government had provided a short toll free national emergency code, 112 as part of the efforts to combat terrorism. She insisted that criticism of the government would be pointless, that everyone should come together as a people collectively and fight this as the government needs information from everyone..

Boko Haram sect

Less than 15 hours after the bomb blast in Abuja, the outlawed Islamic sect, Boko Haram, were said to abduct no less than 100 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

 

This sort of news is horrible and shocking. The United Nations Children’s Fund has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the school girls abducted from their hostel.

Such  brutal acts deny children their right to learn in a safe environment and rob them of their future.

We should be able to contribute to our nation’s endeavor to fight against the abduction of our children…’Our children should be happy, be given a chance……

Lend your voice in the struggle, no matter how little… Educate those around you against the adversities and dangers around our communities……

 

We shouldn’t have to wake up to see gory pictures splashing on every major newspaper….We should wake up to the successes of our children and youth

Let’s give our children hope and the chance to be educated in a country without fear.