By Magnus Aluma, Abakaliki
As part of the activities to mark this year’s press week, Ebonyi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has paid a charity visit to children’s Orphanage known as Trinitarian Foundation for Orphans and the helpless, donating food items and other materials in support of the humanitarian gesture of the Orphanage.
NewsBits reports that the orphanage home is located at the Ugwuachara area of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
The Chairman of NUJ in the State, Comrade Samson Nwafor, who led members of the union on the visit, explained that the visit was part of the activities to mark the 2025 press week of the NUJ in the state.
The Council uses the occasion to render both moral and material support to the needy and less privileged ones in the society, according to him. Comrade Nwafor noted that “journalism is more of humanitarian services,” hence, the Council prioritizes such charity visitations during its annual press week.
He also pledged to publicise the foundation through the media platforms in the state to attract more support from the public. Nwafor said: “This is part of the activities to mark NUJ press week. Every year, we set aside a week to appraise what we are doing; invite our friends to come and celebrate with us. We were here last year.”
“We were not happy because of the condition of this place. If we had the wherewithal, we would have tackled the problems facing you here. But we shall let the public know about this place with our reports; we shall create awareness about this place.”
He further said: “We decided to come again this year to know how you people are doing. One of the things we do is to identify with the needy and the less privileged because our work is purely humanitarian. With this little support we provided, we know it will go a long way to cushion the effects of the hardship.”
Responding on behalf of the Management of the Foundation, Sister Emelesina Ani appreciated NUJ for what she described as “overwhelming support”, saying most of the children under their care “lost their parents at birth and the Foundation had been catering for them”.
According to her, some of the children are in nursery and primary schools, while a few of them are already in secondary schools.
She appealed to NUJ leadership to assist them in creating awareness for good-spirited individuals to come and support in tackling the enormous challenges facing them. She added that the environment doesn’t have a fence and is always flooded whenever there is rainfall.
“I want to sincerely appreciate your visit and your support. Some of these children lost their parents and were brought here for us to take care of them. Many of them are in nursery and primary, and about two in secondary schools, while about six are in primary school.
“We want you to help us create more awareness because people don’t know that we are here, and we really need help.
She also said, “We have so many challenges. This house no longer contains these children, and we don’t have the resources to build another one. We are also suffering from flooding here. We don’t have a fence; we really need help from good-spirited individuals.”
Items donated to the Foundation by NUJ include rice, Indomie, diapers, tomatoes, children’s beds, and detergent.
