The President of
Grace 4 Life Charity, Prince Emmanuel Babatunde Adesina speaks with news men in
Lagos about the Foundation, his aims and objectives and why they are empowering
Nigerians. Excerpt.
MY PEDIGREE
I am from Efon
Alaaye in Ekiti State. I work and based in Lagos state. I was opportune to
spend some time overseas and the life over there is completely different to
what we have here.
About Grace For Life
Charity
The foundation was
just founded by me. Its a non government organization and we are going to use
it to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians no matter your tribe and religion.
We want to help Nigerians in the aspect of job, feeding, education, health and so
on.
No political
ambitions
Some people have
been saying those
involved in this type of task usually do it based on their ambition to become a politician but mine is a different case. The last
thing I would ever become is a politician. It has always been my ambition to
put smiles on the faces of people since I was a kid.
Aims and objectives
My aims and
objectives for founding this charity organization is to ensure that no one
should go to bed hungry. We have rising cases of suicide now because people are
suffering silently and don't have people to pour out their mind to. So, I am
embarking on these charity projects without expecting anything in return from
people.
I have never dreamt
of becoming a President or a Governor but all I ever want to do is to impact
the lives of people positively. I want people to be able to say I have made
positive impacts in their lives. That's my aims & objectives.
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I am not happy with
the way things are going in our country. I am very sure the founding fathers, I
mean those who fought for the independence would have been regretting by now
and probably if they knew this is how things are going to be, they wouldn't
fight for the independence.
October 1st
Empowerment
We started this
October 1st celebration last year but last year’s edition was about
interdenominational praises, that is whether you are a Muslim or Christian,
once you believe in praising God, you are most welcome. We did last year’s
edition courtesy of Yahweh Ministry, an interdenominational praise ministry.
This year’s
edition is going to be
the second edition and the newly founded Grace 4 Life Charity in conjunction
with Yahweh Ministry would be empowering people and also praise God at the same
time.
We want people to
troop out because we should know the importance of independence. Without
independence, we cannot be doing all we are doing today. In the advance
countries, independence days are celebrated specially and people get things
free of charge that day.
But come October
1st, we are going to give 100 widows different kind of food stuffs free of
charge. Also, we are going to empower 20 to 30 widows to start a small scale
business. Then, we are going to praise God. We have notable artistes
like Adegbodu Twins, Aduke Gold, Olayinka Babs Atabatubu, Ayan Jesu, Sammy P,
Elijah Daniel & Yahweh Praise Ministry to lead us in praises and worship.
The event is taking
place on the 1st of October inside Tenima Event Centre located at 196, Iju
road, off Gudugba Bus Stop, beside Uno Noodles, Fagba, Lagos state.
Why Lagos?
Since Independence
day is a national celebration, some people think the empowerment programme
should be in Abuja being the federal capital territory but Lagos is my base and
locality and I am inviting everyone all over the country to join us because the
empowerment is first come, first serve.
