De-worming Exercise School Children, an ongoing programme in collaboration with Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries aimed at ridding aged children of intestinal worms that could cause mental and physical retardation,poor health and low blood level.
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Schools
UPLIFTing School, an ongoing programme where Mrs. Olufunso Amosun has been supporting public schools in rural areas in Ogun State by constructing toilet facilities, donating chairs, desks, school bags, sandals, biros and books to school children.
Orphans and Vulnerable 2014
This was a World Bank supported project in collaboration with UPLIFT Development Foundation with empowered several caregivers to provide adequate care for certified orphans and vulnerable children in identified communities in Ogun State. The chosen caregivers are empowered through capacity building and training and provided with the required knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality, gender sensitive care and support to the vulnerable orphans allocated and committed into their care for an agreed period of 18 months. The chosen beneficiaries were trained in different vocational skills like automobile technical works,hairdressing and sewing and given empowerment tools and certificates at the end of the stipulated period and assisted to become self-sufficient from thereon . On the 31st of October, 2015,the beneficiaries of the first 18-month, intervention programme were celebrated as they graduated at the Progress Hall, South-west Resource Centre, Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta in Ogun State.
1st National Green Essay Competition 2014
1st National Green Essay Competition, an ongoing programme organized by UPLIFT Development Foundation in association with Channels Television based on Mrs. Olufunso Amosun’s book titled: Green Education for the Youths. UPLIFTing the Environment, where the youths from across the country were invited to write an essay on environment sustainability. The competition is designed to inculcate the green culture in the youths, and winners are now green ambassadors in their various states. In October 2015, Mrs.Amosun through her foundation sponsored the 12 finalists that emerged as winners from our six geo-political zones in Nigeria to the United Kingdom for a leadership and environmental workshop programme. All this she did, in a bid to get our future generation actively and voluntarily involved in the mission to save the environment that we live in, from further degradation.
Grassroot Football Players in Italy
Waste To Wealth Initiative
Green Empowerment For The Youth (GEFTY) is a waste-to wealth programme, flagged off by the former governor’s wife in 2013 to empower unemployed youths in Ogun State.
Food Outreach
This is an ongoing programme where over 15,000 vulnerable elderly and pregnant beneficiaries have so far received dry foodstuff and maternity kits from Mrs. Amosun since 2013 to date.
The Aged
This is an initiative where several elderly people get monthly stipends delivered through ATM cards. The programme commenced in 2012 and it’s still ongoing.
Mrs. Amosun Commiserates With Mr Lanre Olayinka
Mrs. Amosun paid a condolence visits to the Ikoyi house of late deputy governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka, in Lagos on the 9th of April, 2013. The husband of late deputy governor, Mr. Lanre Olayinka, received Mrs. Amosun. She described the late deputy governor as a believer of gender equality and women empowerment initiatives, saying the late deputy governor led an exemplary life worthy of emulation. The wife of the former governor described her as a dynamic banker who believed in the overall development of our society, thus her entrance into political terrain to contribute her quotas towards the nation building. She prayed God to give the husband and the children the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Mrs. Amosun Commiserates With Mama H.I.D Awolowo
Mrs. Amosun on the 31st of March, 2013 commiserated with the wife of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Mama H.I.D Awolowo in Ikenne over the death of Chief Oluwole Awolowo. In her message, the wife of the governor prayed God to comfort Mama HID Awolowo. She said “We can’t question God or His ways, God will fill the vacuum.” Responding on behalf of the children, Mrs. Yejide Badmus thanked Mrs. Amosun while appreciated her concern and the visit. Chief Oluwole Awolowo and scion of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo family died Wednesday, 27th of March, 2013 in the intensive care unit of Ward 3, South Wing of Wellington Hospital in St. John’s Wood, London. He was aged 70 years. The wife of the former governor was among the dignitaries that attended the burial ceremony of the scion of the late sage in Ikenne on the 19th of April, 2013