Spirit of Lagos champions ‘Good Neighbourliness’ cause

The Project Director, Spirit of Lagos, Mr. Olaniyi Omotoso, has commended Lagosians for supporting the ‘Good Neighbourliness project, a cause it championed to encourage the people of Lagos to show love to one another by donating items to the Gbagada-based Child Life Line, a non-profit, charitable association committed to supporting and enabling vulnerable young persons at risk or in need.

Omotoso who expressed elation at the support for the project by Lagosians, also showed gratitude to all who donated items which included non perishable food items, educational materials, clothes and sporting materials among many others to the cause saying that the response, despite the short notice, was encouraging and shows that the spirit of good neighbourliness truly resides in Lagos.

In his words: “We are overwhelmed by what we are seeing today. Even with a short notice, Lagosians have expressed love even to these young children who are products of circumstances beyond them. Good neighbourliness is one of the four pillars that the Spirit of Lagos stands on. It is through good neighbourliness that our community can truly develop and with the donation of these items today, these vulnerable children in Child Life Line will from today begin to enjoy a new lease of life”.

He said that the Spirit of Lagos will continue to support the Child Life Line as it seeks to empower the children, mostly between the ages of 10 and 18, through formal and vocational education and reconnect them with their family.

In the spirit of the Yuletide, members of the Spirit of Lagos also had a Christmas party with the children where the children were served with food, ice cream, popcorn and also showed their talents in dancing.

Mrs. Sally Udoma, President, Child Life Line, thanked members of Spirit of Lagos for championing such a worthy cause and called on the organization to continue to support the charitable association in making its vision a reality.

Child life Line, according to her, has been able to reunite quite a number of children back to their families in the last 20 years. Some of the children according to her, had been tutored and nurtured to be self reliant, self supporting and independent through the provision of both formal and informal education.