EmeBest Foundation donates items to over 3,000 women, patients at UUTH, orphanages

The joy of the women of Ikot Inyang, Eka Uruk Eshiet Community, Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, and all the patients in the Postnatal, Caesarean Section and Paediatric Surgical Children Wards at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital new no bound on Friday, 22nd December, 2023, following donations of different items worth millions of naira to them by EmeBest Foundation.

The event which commenced with the donation of items to the women of Ikot Inyang, Eka Uruk Eshiet, Etim Ekpo, ended with donations to Special Children’s Home along IBB Way and Divine Children Home, Atan Affot, all in Uyo Local Government Area.

Items donated for the women include; bags of garri and rice, cartons of noodles, oil, beverages, among others. For the patients at the UUTH, the Foundation donated hundreds of cartons of milk, packs of diapers, beverages, cartons of noodles and cash gifts, while the two orphanages received bags of rice and garri, cartons of noodles, many pieces of bedspread, clothes, cartons of milk, among others.

Speaking to journalists at the ceremony, the founder of EmeBest Foundation, Mrs. Eme Edidiong Monday, said she was inspired some five years ago to start the Foundation to uplift women and children whom she noted had been going through a lot of hardship, occasioned by years of Nigeria’s misgovernance.

The founder added that, as one who grew up in a society where there exist an long-aged thinking that the girl child is not enough, but the boy child, clearly inspired the focus of the Foundation on women and children.

“ EmeBest Foundation is a Foundation that is into uplifting women and children in a world where we feel men rule. This is not a bad thing, but I think we need to uplift women and children, especially in a country like Nigeria.

“ I grew up in a society where it was like female children were not enough. I am here to say that every female child is enough. Here in Akwa Ibom, particularly, there is a feeling that the male child is everything. But I’m here to uplift my gender; to say no, we can do it. So, I’m doing this because I know that they are suffering.

“ For this yuletide season, we are giving out a lot of food items, engaging in educational uplift. We are also visiting orphanages and hospital around Uyo to pay hospital bills and make donations as well”.

Mrs. Eme Monday, who recalled how she started engaging in uplifting women and children five years ago, said the Foundation decided this year to broaden the scope and bring it forward, as a humanitarian entity that has come to uplift women and children.

She disclosed that the Foundation was working on plans to open food pantry where women and children would be given food on monthly basis, stressing that the whole idea was nothing short of uplifting the women and children in the society.

On his part, the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Luxury Group, Mr. Edidiong Udoidem, said this year’s celebration, visit and donation was to formally unveil the Foundation.

Mr. Udoidem, who is an indigene of Ikot Inyang, Eka Uruk Eshiet, Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, said it became necessary for the Foundation to turn attention to the women and children, considering the fact that these segments of the society had always been affected by inequality.

“ We are focusing on women and children because if you look at our society, you see the very people who are affected by inequality. Therefore, we are coming to rescue the women and the children. That is why we established EmeBest Foundation”.

Also giving a perspective as to why EmeBest Foundation was conceived, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, Mrs. Ubong Charles Udoetuk, added that the Foundation came as a child of circumstance to support the women and children, particularly the poor ones, in raising a shoulder for them to lean on.

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She therefore, assured that this would continue until women and children were given a more lease of life they deserved as humans.

Some of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Mercy Iniobong Sunday and Agnes Uduak Effiong, who spoke to The Crest expressed appreciation to EmeBest Foundation for making them participate in the joy of the season.

The women revealed that the gesture shown by the Founder, Mrs. Eme Monday, was unprecedented and therefore, prayed God to bless her and the Foundation.