Life coach, investor and serial entrepreneur David Imonite
jr has given the people of Makoko much needed relief materials.
Imonite jr who is the founder of the ''I Believe
Foundation'' and his team gave
the inhabitants of the slum settlement the first
batch of 500 units of water purifier and solar light provision LightWaterLife
sustainable life kit donation on Monday, December 2, 2019.
The donation was made to the first set of beneficiaries in
the presence of the traditional head of the community and other leaders.
A demonstration of the use of the kit was done for those
present.
Each kit contains devices that provide clean drinkable water
and a solar panel that powers two energy-saving bulbs and a football for the
kids.
The importance of the donation lays in the standard of
living at Makoko.
The people live on dark smelly water. There is no electricity.
And they breed and inhabit in makeshift houses made of wood and planks. Colored
water labeled clean is sold for N50 per bucket.
The environment is littered with refuse from different
canals on its way to the sea.
The odor that pervades the community deeply offensive, yet
the inhabitants live and breed there.
The donation of the LightWaterLife kit is part of a
two-pronged approach by I Believe Foundation, which provides help to young,
underprivileged and orphaned children as well as to deserving families in need,
to take up the cause of Makoko.
The first is the provision of relief materials -seen as
immediate needs and was acted on, on Monday – and the second is advocacy - in a
non-confrontational manner seeking the best way to work together with
government on a long term plan of making life better for the people of Makoko
according to the Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer Morounrant Ashabi.
On her part, Foundation’s Director Reverend Mo Merriman-Johnson
insists taking up the cause of a better life for the people of Makoko is an
objective I Believe Foundation intends to see through because ‘’we have
the heart to do good’’.
''And for as long as I live, this is something I intend to
do'' she asserted.
Merriman-Johnson further disclosed that while the foundation
explores avenues to work with the government, its primary focus at present is
to provide much-needed relief materials such as the LightWaterLife kit to the
people of Makoko.
A known name in the network marketing world, Imonite Jr
disclosed that he founded the foundation to touch lives.
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