An estate firm, Taheel Group of companies, has donated food items and other home accessories to the Federal Capital Territory School for the blind, Jabi and Destined Children Orphanage Home Kado also in Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
Items donated to the school and the orphanage home included bags of rice, garri, cartons of indomie, containers of vegetable oil, fruit juice, spaghetti, tomatoes, cartons of toothpaste, tissue papers, beverages, among others.
Making the donation on Tuesday on behalf of the organisation’s Chief Executive Officer, Prince Abdulfatai Dirisu, the head of sales and marketing, Sadiq Ahmad said the gesture was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility, adding that it was a way of giving back to the society.
Sadiq said, “What we have just done is to give our little quota for the upkeep of the students, we are not here to criticize the government or say they are not doing well in feeding them.No, it is to support the government in our own little way. So we are here to cheer the children up with the little we can do and we are wishing them success in all their endeavours.
“We are also here to sensitise and educate the students on COVID 19 safety measures and how to stay safe. We decided to come here because most times, the physically challenged are not remembered, people always go to orphanage homes.”
Ahmad also promised that his organisation would be back to the school in no distant time to also donate learning aides to the students.
Speaking while receiving the items, principal of the school, Mrs Rose Uganden, who expressed happiness at the donation commended the company for its gesture to the students.
She called on other organisations to emulate such philanthropic gestures of reaching out to the destitute and physically challenged.
Mrs Uganden commended the government for taking care of the students while acknowledging the effort of other well meaning organisations who she said have donated generously to the school.
She, however, told the donors that the school was in dire need of study materials like braille, braille papers, computers, laptops and other teaching aides to assist the students in their studies.