Yuletide: SEOF Gives Lifeline To POWA

Yuletide: SEOF Gives Lifeline To POWA
Yuletide: SEOF Gives Lifeline To POWA

 

In the spirit of yuletide season, Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF), has donated 10 grinding engines, 10 sewing machines and 10 equator standing hair dryers to the FCT chapter of the Police Officers Wives Association ( POWA) for distribution to their members who are windows. 

Presenting the items to the chairperson of POWA, FCT Chapter, Hajiya salamatu Garba Haruna on behalf of SEOF, AIG Chris Ezike (Rtd) and Chief of Staff to Sir Emeka Offor, said the donation is spart of the foundation’s social corporate responsibility as well as a response to POWA letter to the foundation, requesting support to empower its members 

"Sir Emeka Offor Foundation is an NGO that operates nationally and internationally. What we do is on a tripod, we are engaged in educational development, health and human services and empowerment. What we are doing today falls under our third legs which is empowerment.

POWA wrote us a letter asking for support to be able to meet up the needs of its members within the FCT. We are aware of the excruciating  conditions under which Police and their families operate. We are also aware that if you empower the women of the house, you have invariably empowered the man. Challenges of law enforcement and security in the country apparently force very young wives to go into windows. So, we get interested in mitigating the challenges they face, knowing that their husbands died defending the country. 

"So, we decided as a foundation to assist with 10 grinding machines, 10 sewing machines and 10 hair dryers. We hope this modest donation will put a smile on the faces of your members,"  Ezike said. 

Responding, chairperson of POWA, FCT Command, Hajiya salamatu Garba Haruna, thanked SEOF for the philanthropic gesture, saying she will distribute the machines to windows and less privileges within the Nigeria Police Force to support their families. 

"On behalf of my members, the windows and the less privileges within the FCT command, we are so happy and grateful to SEOF. I wrote a letter to Emeka Offor Foundation to assist us to empower our women and today we are with plenty of gifts for them. I know they would be very happy and God will bless Sir Emeka Offor and his entire family for us. We will distribute it to the women to use to make small money to support the family," she said. 

The FCT Commissioner of Police, G.G. Haruna, commended the SEOF for its continuous support to the less privileged in the society and prayed to God to replenish his pocket.   

"This is not the first time he is doing this, he has done it several times and may Almighty God replenish his pocket. That is the only prayer we have for him to be strong and continue in the spirit. The end-users of these gifts will be happy anytime they are using it and as they are happy so also God be happy with him too. Convey our message to him that we are very grateful."

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