As part of the activities to mark its press week, Ebonyi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has donated foodstuffs and other items to the Trinitarian Foundation for Orphans and the helpless.
The orphanage home is located at Oterufie,Ugwuachara, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, where the council donated food items and other materials to support the humanitarian work of the foundation.
Chairman of NUJ in the state, Samson Nwafor, who led the visit explained that the visit was part of the activities to mark the NUJ press week in the state.
According to him, the council is using the occasion to render both moral and material support to the needy and less-privileged in the society.
Nwafor noted that journalism is more of humanitarian services, hence, the council prioritizes such charity visitations during its annual press week.
He also pledged to publicize the foundation through the media platforms in the state to attract more support from the public.
“This is part of the activities to mark the NUJ press week. Every year, we set aside a week to appraise what we are doing; invite our friends to come and celebrate with us.We were here last year.
“We were not happy because of the condition of this place. If we had the wherewithal, we would have tackled the problems facing you here.
“But we shall let the public know about this place with our reports; we shall create awareness about this place.
“We decided to come again this year to know how you people are doing. One of the things we do is to identify with the needy and the less-privileged because our work is purely humanitarian services.
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“With this little support we provided,we know it will go along way to cushion the effects of the hardship,” Nwafor noted.
Responding on behalf of the orphanage, Sister Emelesina Ani appreciated the NUJ for what she described as overwhelming support, saying most of the children under their care lost their parents at birth and the foundation had been catering for them.
“She stated that some of them are in nursery and primary schools, while a few of them are in secondary school.
She appealed to the NUJ leadership to assist the orphanage to create awareness for more good spirited individuals to come and support in tackling the enormous challenges facing them, adding that the environment doesn’t have fence and is always flooded whenever there’s rainfall.
Items donated to the foundation by the NUJ include, bags of rice, indomie, diapers, tomatoes, children’s bed and detergents.
