Hardship: Awesome Sisters Foundation Embarks on ‘Operation Support The Needy’, Distributes Food Items
By Onome Naomi
Awesome Sisters Foundation, a socialist organization which comprises of women from different squares of life and races embarked on an operation feed the needy exercise observed on Saturday July 13,2024 in Oshodi Lagos.
The foundation established in 2017, is earmarked to meet the needs of the less privileged in the society. The Awesome Sisters are volunteers of goodwill as members contribute funds to help the poor.
According to records, Awesome sisters foundation has funded scholarships for students, empowerment of widows, distribution of food items to the less privileged, donation of school materials, payment of rents for the homeless, hospital bills amid other voluntary donations.
On Saturday 13th July 2024, Awesome Sisters took to the streets of Lagos precisely the suburbs of Oshodi to distribute food items to support over a hundred residents as the economy bites hard leading to untold hardship on Nigerians, a situation where foodstuffs has become a very expensive commodity unaffordable to many Nigerian families.
The initiative carried out by the foundation is a magnanimous act meant to cushion the effect of inflation leading to scarce resources and unavailability of capital to cater for the people’s needs. Random reports shows that many Nigerian households in recent times have subjected members of the family to one square meal as against the normal three square meals due to economic meltdown resulting in hardship.
Speaking to reporters at the distribution site of Awesome Sisters’ “Operation Feed the Needy,” the foundation’s convener, Chief Mrs. Chizoba Okoli, stated that the organization had committed to showing generosity to the streets by giving food items to those in need in an effort to lessen the current hardship that had befallen Nigerians.
In her words, she said;
“So many Nigerians needs food, it is not about how rich you are but how far can you go to help people?”
“Awesome sisters has made it an assignment to support the less privileged hence a contribution was made by all members of the foundation to support the Nigerian govt from our private purses to achieve this course.”
“We are here to make others smile, why eat alone in our houses when people are out there suffering and stealing just to eat. This gesture we give is from our heart not because we are rich.”
Chizoba also advised wealthy Nigerians to emulate the act of showing magnanimity to the starving population. She says the government should utilize organisations such as the Awesome Sisters Foundation to empower people in the grassroot, create an enabling environment for job opportunities as well as support the people with basic amenities.
She added that the Japa syndrome can be curtailed only if the government can provide the basics as Nigerians who leaves the country to sort for greener pastures in other countries do menial jobs to support their family back home. However there is need for a unified front to create a better Nigeria.
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Some of the beneficiaries at the Oshodi outreach thanked the organisers of Operation Feed the Needy “The Awesome Sisters” for the philanthropy displayed to cushion hardship. Some of the food items provided by the foundation includes, packs of rice, beans, garri, palm oil, pastas, noodles, others.
