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The Care People Foundation has used the occasion of its annual carnival for the orphans, widows, motherless and people with disability to put smiles on the less privileged people in the society in this festive period.
•Mrs Tioluwani presenting a sewing machine to a beneficiary
This is as the foundation’s President, Rev Paul Tunde Tioluwani called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to introduce policies that will ease the pains of Nigerians.
At the event which took place in Ibadan, Care People’s Foundation gave support to 100 widows in forms of clothing and foodstuffs.
It also made free donation of wheelchairs to people with disability as well as sewing machines, foodstuffs, grinding machines for other less privileged people in the society.
•Rev Tioluwani presenting an award of recognition to Prof Adeyemi and his wife at the carnival.
Pupils from different orphanages and physically-challenged homes in and around Ibadan were feted in the spirit of the Yuletide.
Care People Foundation in conjunction with Solape Animasahun Foundation also gave N4 million scholarship to 35 indigent students from various tertiary institutions in the country.
Speaking at the occasion, President of the Foundation, Rev Paul Tunde Tioluwani urges the Federal Government to put in place welfare programmes for the less privileged in the society especially the widows, orphans and people with physical disability.
He called on President Tinubu to ease the pain of Nigerians, saying the people on the streets of Nigerians are not smiling at all.
“The role of leadership is to come and fix problems and not to compound it. Before the advent of this administration, Nigerians were already passing through hell. When President Tinubu assumed power, he brought the issue of removal of subsidy on petroleum products and this brought additional pain on the populace.
“Government must introduce policies that will ease the pains of Nigerians. Government must encourage farming. We need to go back to policies like ‘Operations Feed the Nation’ and the Green Revolution to encourage individuals to go into subsistence farming.
“The President and his cabinet must put their thinking caps on, think outside the box and assist the ordinary Nigerians who are finding it difficult to survive,” Tioluwani said.
Speaking on the activities of the foundation, Tioluwani said this year’s edition of the carnival is the 33rd, saying the programme started in 1999.
“Since the inception of the foundation in 1990, to the glory of God, we have imparted thousands of helpless people in Nigeria, given out over 2000 scholarship awards to indigent students in Nigeria tertiary institutions, established a multi-million naira orphanage with about 100 children and have trained about 10 graduates from this facility with two fresh graduates.
He said due to the harsh economic situation currently plaguing the Nigerian society, it has become increasingly difficult to help the poor and the needy but said that “out of sacrifice and Biblical injunction, we made it a compulsion against all odds to make this year’s event a reality, knowing full well that he that showeth mercy will obtain mercy.”
Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion and former Vice Chancellor of the Bell University, Otta, Ogun State, Professor Isaac Adeyemi said Tinubu’s government should as part of its programme of Renewed Hope renew hope for physically challenged people in the country.
He said the Renewed Hope should be an all encompassing one, adding that the programme should be able to take care of the orphans, widows and the physically challenged people.
Adeyemi said concrete steps should be taken to ensure that these groups of people have rekindled hope in this austere time.
