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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The milk of human kindness demonstrated by Florence Agogo, national vice president of the Law Students Association of Nigeria (LAWSAN) is boundless, as she consistently paid tuition fee for indigent students and provided foodstuffs for widows and the aged.
Agogo, who recently facilitated community development services, said: “I derivejoy and happiness from helping others, seeing that people are facing a lot of problems and pressure. A lot of students cannot pay school fees because their parents are challenged.
“A lot of people cannot even feed themselves. By the privilege of God, I think I have a little advantage so I tend to see how I can use my advantage and resources to help other people.”
She recently carried out an outreach tagged, ‘We thought of you’, which featured visitations to the Infant Jesus Orphanage Home, the Pope John Paul II Good Samaritan Home for the poor, aged and needy, General Hospital and street children, all in Cross River State capital, Calabar.
According to her, the gesture was targeted at brightening the faces of those weighed down by the vicissitudes of life.
Bags of rice, cartons of noodles, cartons of detergents, packets of salt and toiletries, among others were donated. Also, hospital bills of patients at the Calabar General Hospital were defrayed. announced the unwavering enthusiasm and unflinching resolve of the Sen. Yasir Abubakar, led LAWSAN administration to continue to up the standards for a greater and progressive association.
“I would say the government needs to enlarge their network of representatives in each of the states and local governments because it seems that even though they are trying, it ends at a certain level because most of these people they send as representatives, we do not get to see them.
“So I would appeal to the conscience of our President, Vice President and all those who are heads of offices to try and go deeper, to try and send people who would go down to the grassroot level, to the universities – the university community is where you find the youths. Go to secondary schools, try and engage them and know where they are hurting.
“Government should try and get the youths engaged. They would not have time for prostitution or other vices. It is because they are idle most of the time. The government should expand its network to reach the real people who are in need of help.
“They should also checkmate the people they send to us as youths and ensure what they are sending to us is actually getting to us,” she said.
Among other things, she urged the youths to take charge of their lives by being bold and daring.
“In life, everything begins from taking a decision. If you take a decision in life that this is what you want, nothing can stop you. Be bold, be intentional.
“I would advise everyone and anyone who is aspiring to be in this position sometime later in life to be bold. Not everyone would accept or support that, but you should do what you want to do at a time.
“If you believe in yourself and believe in God and believe that not even the sky is your limit but your starting point, then you can achieve anything. So I would encourage anyone that wants to do anything to go ahead. Do be shy or scared but go ahead.
“Life is not easy but I believe that if you are able to draw closer to God and to people who have made a mark already, to be mentored by people who are already up there, I think it would shape your life and reasoning.
“Instead of engaging in prostitution or trying to make it quickly or trying to be the big girl or the big boy, it is better to get a business and seek advice from people who are already doing well.
“There is always something you can do, rather than embarrass yourself or cut short yourself, defile your emotions and scatter your own life by yourself.
“Depression and other things can come up later because you are engaged in things you are not even happy about. I feel there is always a way out. Start a business and seek help where necessary.
“The 2020 pandemic was what birthed my outreach and ever since it has continued. I believe that growing in the future I would engage more people to join because I feel that I cannot really do this alone. If I had more hands it would have been a broader network,” she said.
