Dressing them up and spending $$$ + August 25....Dear Friends,
As usual, we visited the Ikeja General Hospital children’s wards last weekend. Our reliable and consistent members: Adesuwa, Bimbo, Nini, Aminat, Tope S, Tola T and Folasade were present, and so were our new friends: Seyi A, Fatima S and a long time supporter all the way from Port Harcourt, Teslim B. In addition to spending their time with us on Saturday, these wonderful people also donated a total sum of N15,000, most of which we gave out to patients in need of financial assistance. May God bless you all for your time, money and sacrifices.
In addition to the usual groceries, we gave out some of the beautiful clothes donated to us by our kind hearted friends dedicated to “keeping the orphans nice and warm” all the way from Ireland. The kids and their family greatly appreciate what you have done for them; unfortunately the hospital matrons did not allow pictures, so we cannot share some of their joy with you in ‘color.’
Five patients benefited from our extra Prescription Assistance Program: We made a commitment to help Ahmed Nifemi (a 1 year old female with hydrocephalus, first phase of the surgery costs N100K), and Rasheed Ayoola (a three year old boy who needs to undergo an Audio logical Assessment which costs N21,000). We provided cash assistance to Adeniyi Fatia (a two year old sickle cell patient), Favor Omodiebe (a four month old girl with Hypertysis) and Bosede Julius (an 11 year old girl that has some kidney/heart problems). We are keeping our promise to Miss Nifemi and Master Ayoola; today, we withdrew the sum of N123,000 to take care of Nifemi’s surgery and Ayoola’s assessment. As I write this, Folasade, our staff coordinator is at the hospital making 'it' happen.
We are extremely grateful and will like to thank Adesuwa’s sister for her selflessness. She has visited Hearts of Gold Hospice and the Lagos State Motherless babies home to help deliver more clothes and to take pictures of the delighted kids in their new clothes. The process of dressing up the kids continue this Saturday, August 25, 2007 at the Children’s Transit Home (behind LUTH in Idi-Araba), please make time to join this visit starting at 2pm. We look forward to seeing you and your friends there.
We will not visit HOG this weekend because we have been ‘there’ already this week through Adesuwa’s sister and we have paid ~N200K to our contractor to lay nice tiles on the floors at hospice, work commenced on this project on Monday and should be completed shortly.
We would never be able to do all these without your support, so we thank God for you and hope that you will continue to keep your promises to us and the kids.
Thanks and God bless.
