Group partners WaterLight Initiative to empower widows, orphans in FCT

To help alleviate the plights of the indigent this festive season, over 200 widows and 100 orphans have been given food items, wrappers and resumption kits.

At an outreach organised by the Sunday and Omoikhere Oriaran Foundation (SOOF) and WaterLight Save Initiative in Abuja on Sunday, the convener, Chief (Dr) Mrs Rose Oriaran-Anthony, said the aim of the party was to put smiles on the faces of widows and orphans this festive season.

The Director, SOOF Barr Mrs Patricia Samuel, said 200 widows from various areas of the FCT and over 100 orphans from five orphanage were present and received various gifts.

Similarly,  the director, WaterLight Save Initiative, Dr Prince Ero Ibhafidan, said the more people collaborate, the more vulnerable people and communities will be reached and poverty alleviated.

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One of the widows, Josephine Nyina, thanked the two foundations for providing gifts for her and her four children for Christmas.