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Rev. Paul Tunde Tioluwani, popularly known as Lesekese, has through his foundation, Care People Foundation, celebrated Christmas with the orphans, physically-challenged persons and less privileged folks in a carnival which featured music, drama and other performances at different homes in and around Oyo State.
This year’s edition of the annual carnival took place at the Care People Foundation Orphanage Home in Ibadan.
Speaking at the occasion, Tioluwani, who is also the General Overseer of the Bibleway Church Crusaders International, called on the governments at all levels and the well to do in the society to always remember the poor and the vulnerable especially during the Yuletide period.
He said there is the need to care for the less privileged in the society at this time of economic hardship.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to be kind in Nigeria because a man cannot give what he does not have. And considering the economy that seems to be going down, people seem not to have enough. So anyone giving out things at this time must be doing it sacrificially.
“So I want to encourage the rich people in the country and the governments at the local, states and federal levels to come to help the needy, especially those with physical disabilities, orphans, motherless and other less privileged people in the society.”
He said his foundation had been trying its best by bringing smiles to the faces of the less privileged people through provisions of wheelchairs, food items, grinding machines, sewing machines and provisions of scholarships to indigent students. But he noted, however, that “we can only do little and government must intervene.”
Also speaking, Chairman of the Carnival and former Vice Chancellor of Bells University, Professor Isaac Adeyemi said the government at both the state and federal levels must give special allocations to orphanages and homes for people living with disability as a way of alleviating their suffering.
He said he had listened to the debates and town halls by major presidential candidates but has not heard any of them speak on their programmes for people living with disabilities, saying this must be corrected before the February 25 election.
“They have also been talking about education but none of them has broken it down to segments. I don’t think any of them has talked about caring for the orphans and motherless in schools as well as the people with physical challenges. They are only talking about tertiary education. This must be corrected before the election,” Adeyemi said.
He commended the Care People Foundation for the annual carnival saying with the event, they have brought succour and joy to the less privileged people in the society especially during the festive period.
The attendees went home with various gifts, including wheelchairs for those who cannot walk on their legs, food items, sewing machines, and pepper grinding machines, among others.
Also, 17 indigent students of tertiary institutions across the country were given scholarship award by the foundation, in conjunction with Sholape Animasahun Foundation.
Tioluwani said the gesture is to appreciate God in the lives of the less privileged at this Yuletide period, saying the annual event is to bring succour to the motherless and orphans in the society
