From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
The Imo State branch of Rayal and Saloon Lotto (R&S) in the spirit of the Christmas season last week donated food items, toiletries and other necessities to three orphanage hom festivities.
The Motherless Homes visited the gaming centre are: Holy Family; Sisters of the Needy, St Joseph’s Home for Orphans and Destitutes, in Okwu Uratta Road, Owerri North; Emekuku Motherless Babies Home/Orphanage, Owerri North and the Nigeria Red Cross Society Orphanage Home, Owerri.
The items donated to them included: rice, corn, craft fish, spaghetti, tubers of yam, groundnut oil, red oil, garri, beans, potato, pampas and washing powder.
Receiving the items on behalf of the St. Joseph’s Home for the Orphans and Destitute, Sister Ogonna Obi, who is the matron, expressed gratitude to the management of the R&S for their kindness towards the less privileged who she said are least remembered by the society.
“We cannot thank you enough for this kind gesture and we pray that the Almighty God will continue to bless you people more abundantly,” she said.
Similarly, Rev. Sister Opara H of Emekuku Motherless Babies Home and Mrs Udoka Ogu who stood in for the matron of the orphanage, thanked the donors for their benevolence and prayed that God would continue to bless them for putting smiles on the faces of those who have been abandoned by the society, especially at this Yuletide season.
Mr Cahill Cahwam, Coordinator of the R&S Lotto, Akwa Ibom branch, thanked the managers of the orphanages for taking good care of the children in their custody in spite of the economic hardship.
He disclosed that it was part of the company’s policies to celebrate with the less privileged on every festive period to make them feel loved, as well as give them the sense of belonging that they have not been totally forgotten, saying that “R&S Lotto International is following God’s instructions to show love to the needy, as well as share whatever it has to people”.
Also, the Public Relations Officer of the company in Imo, Mr Anslem Nzeocha, explained that the R&S Lotto has been encouraging people, especially through football to help them have sense of belonging, promising that they would continue to assist the needy to make lives more pleasing and bearable for them.