When at her album launch award-winning actress cum musician, Omotola
Jalade Ekeinde promised that twenty percent of proceeds from the sales
of her album would go to charity, many thought it was another empty
promise from a celebrity to get media attention.
But with recent development, one can only say that the Feel Alright exponent meant every word she said as, recently, the star actress and mother of four stormed the Heart of Gold Hospices and SOS children village in Isolo, Lagos to further propagate her Give and Let Give gospel.
The two-day charity visit tour took off with a four-hour visit to the
Heart Of Gold Hospices by the actress and members of OYEP (Omotola
Youth Empowerment Programme); guided by Mrs. Adedoyin the founder of
the orphanage, the star actress whose musical strength has been
getting wide accolades in recent times went round the orphanage and
showed her sympathy to the children while revealing that she can’t
imagine the wickedness that exists in the mind of the parents of some
of the children.
The most sympathetic part of her visit was her meeting a baby who suffered from a formation malfunction; at this point, the Gba crooner couldn’t hide her emotional side as she wasalmost moved to tears at the little boy’s plight, she thereafter moved
to other rooms where she motivated and played with the kids before
giving out gifts that include toiletries, clothes and products from
Chivita.
The next day, the port of call was the SOS children village, Isolo
where Omotola and her crew met with the social official in-charge. The
social official in charge then showed the crew round the village: to
the children’s hostels, classroom, the children were so elated to see
the role model pay them a visit as the mother of four advised the
children to be focus and be good children. Omotola and her crew then
donated, cloths, shoes, food stuff, biscuit, and products from Chivita
to SOS village.
Explaining the rationale behind her visit to the orphanage, Omotola
disclosed that it is pertinent to give back to the society, “All
religions encourage this, it is a sure way to make other people happy
and the sad thing is that these children did not put themselves in
that condition they met themselves in that condition because of some
people’s mistakes, said Omotola.
It will be good to note that all through Omotola’s career that has
spanned over 15 years, the actress has in one way or the other being a
‘philanthropist-celebrity’ just last year, she became the first
African to step into the shoes of Nicholas Cage and Bono when she was
engaged by the biggest non-governmental organization (NGO), Amnesty
International in war-torn Sierra Leone to raise awareness for the
menace of high maternal mortality rate.
Source: Bigsam Media Lagos|