Will You Help?

Right now, I’m looking round the house. Making sure the cleaning up has been done properly and to my satisfaction. Walls wiped (maintaining white paint in Nigeria is a HUGE task), floors mopped, windows cleaned, toilets sparkling, Kitchen in top notch state, lawn mowed, sigh! It really is a long list. I'm really looking forward to managing my very own house. 

Anyway, suddenly i tried to Imagine this house as one of the houses in the flooded area, I tried to imagine having to move from the comfort of my own home into a tent and waiting for someone to bring me my daily meal, I can’t work, there’s no ATM, there’s no market to buy food, no kitchen to cook my meals, I can’t feed my family. Having to manage whatever daily ration I get in the camp.....?

Then i realized, we can’t all just sit and wait and pray and wonder what the government is doing to help this people?

I’m here in my niece ad nephew’s room trying to piece my thoughts together on my laptop and my 2 yr old niece is just screaming and crawling all over me, trying to draw my attention to only God knows what. Oh! There’s a cobweb somewhere I need to see!!!

What will it be like trying to manage a 2yr old in the camp? No schools, no teachers, no hospitals. Different characters in the camp. Sigh! 

There was no warning! No fore-cast, just a sudden surge of flood, no warning. Right now, I’m not looking for whom to blame or how responsible or irresponsible the government is. I’m just wondering what you and I as citizens are doing about helping our fellow citizens. This is an opportunity to reach out. If you look hard enough, you will figure out a way to help. You, yeah I mean you might just be the custodian of a very unique solution if only you will think about it for more than 30seconds.

Let me introduce you to I-respond. 

According to the Nigeria Red Cross 64,000 people have been displaced, 148 dead and an estimated 134,000 have been affected by the recent flood crisis across 21 states in Nigeria.

In response to this, the HOPE Foundation has launched a relief project called Project i-Respond to raise relief materials (foodstuffs, blankets and clothing items, etc) for the affected areas. Cash donations are also welcomed.

When issues like this come before us, many-a-times, we tend to think that there is nothing we can do about it, whereas there is so very much that we can do. This is why iRespond Project was launched- to get as many people as possible to respond-in-action to the ills of this time, there is a need to RESPOND, and quickly too.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. - Albert Einstein

For more info: call 07037711776 or mail eagleshopefoundation@gmail.com or follow us @HOPEfoundation0

Happy Holidays!!!