Skyline feeds over 100 IDP kids monthly in Abuja

Skyline International Tourism and Hospitality Limited, owners of the Pizzahut and Movenpick franchise, has stated that it feeds over 100 children of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) every month through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme: “Feed The Child Initiative”.

The company’s Marketing Manager, Kolade Afolabi. Who disclosed this at the weekend during another round of the feeding at the Durumi IDP Camp, said, “We are here at the IDP camp in Durumi, Abuja, for the ‘Feed The Child Initiative’ of Skyline Tourism and Hospitality Limited.

“The initiative is designed to cater for children of displaced persons of insurgencies; Boko Haram in the North East and others in other parts of Nigeria. These are children who have not experienced eating healthy meals in a good environment.

“We commenced the ‘Feed The Child Initiative’ last year in March, and have been moving it from one location to the other. It’s one of the initiatives of the MD, Mr Nitin Anand, who is of the opinion that we should give back to society. That’s why we came to the camp, and as you can see, we have fed over 100 today with support from the Pen Foundation.”

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The founder of the Pen Foundation, Chukwunonso Ikechukwu Okafor, said he started the foundation to support the education of IDPs’ children to obtain education like other children.

He said, “We started with seven children and have been able to grow to about 30 children. We’ve been able to sustain their education. Whatever we do on top of that is just an extra initiative.

“We want to encourage them more because the environment they grow up in, they don’t have the privileges that some children have. So, we want to be able to also provide that privilege in this environment with toys, with gifts for them to know that they are also children. They should be able to play as well as study when it’s time.”