In a way to help relieve hunger, the Ikeja Viva L’Amour Lions Club has embarked on a food distribution exercise recently at St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Ikeja.
This is in commemoration of the Worldwide Week of Service to Fight Hunger, which is also an annual reminder of the disastrous implications of food insecurity.
It was reported that the main aim of the event is targeted at petty traders in the markets, street cleaners, security guards, the unemployed, beggars, and the vulnerable poor and needy within the Ikeja environ, had food items such as rice, garri (cassava flour), tomato paste, salt, vegetable oil and much more distributed to more than 100 males and female families. In totality, about 600 family members benefited from the hunger relief programme.
Explaining the reason behind the celebration, Yewande Akapo, president, Ikeja Viva L’Amour Lions Club, disclosed that the activity was aimed at giving succor to the poor and hungry as there was hunger in the land and globally too.
Akapo explained, is one of the six core service areas of Lions Club International. “Due to the world food crisis, she remarked, the Club cannot close its eyes to the food crisis all over the country.
“Donation of the food items will help to relieve part of the sufferings and hunger experienced by many people around us, it will also put smiles on their faces and give them joy. They all left the venue praising and thanking God while appreciating and blessing the club and its members.”
Having acknowledged that there is hunger in the land, the president extended an invitation to the humanitarian services to public spirited Nigerians as she believes that there is always something everybody can do. It is a collective responsibility, she emphasized.
Helen Mbakwe, the Activity chairperson for the day, was represented by Scholastica Onyeyiri, she narrated that it was necessary that they embark on the programme as the hardship in the country has made it difficult for so many people to afford three square meals per day, not to even mention eating balanced diets.
Onyeyiri noted that though relieving hunger was one of their core activities, that they deemed it necessary to touch the lives of families this time around.
